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Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” opens in New York, becoming the first Black-authored play to become a long-running Broadway hit. It holds the record for longest-running Black-authored play on Broadway until Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1959.
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October 16, 1968 San Jose State track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists during a medal ceremony at the Summer Olympics in […]
October 24, 1935 Langston Hughes’ play “Mulatto” opened in New York, becoming the first Black-authored play to become a long-running Broadway hit. It held the […]
April 13, 1997 Orange County native Eldrick “Tiger” Woods shoots a record-breaking18-under-par, beating the second-place finisher by 12 strokes and becoming the youngest (age 21) […]