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Actress Alfre Woodard
Actress Alfre Woodard wins the Emmy Award for outstanding guest performance in a dramatic series for NBC’s “L.A. Law.” She also won an Emmy in 1984 for a supporting role in “Hill Street Blues.”
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Desmond Tutu, a South African archbishop known for his work as a human rights activist, received the Nobel Piece Prize at Oslo City Hall […]
February 8, 1986 Medical student Debi Thomas becomes the first black skater to win the women’s singles of the U.S. National Figure Skating Championship. She […]
Sept. 5, 1960 A young boxer named Cassius Clay won the gold medal in the light heavyweight division in the Summer Olympics at Rome. Clay […]