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Alex Haley’s award-winning narrative “Roots” is adapted for television in a landmark mini-series that would explore Black people’s forced journey from Africa to the Americas. The series would go on to win dozens of awards and become the most watched mini-series in history.
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January 29, 2009 President Barack Obama signs his first bill as president of the United States. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 revised […]
Janet Collins becomes the first black dancer to appear at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her journey is the subject of an animated […]
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. announces the end of a 381-day bus boycott against the city of Montgomery, Ala., after city officials agreed to […]