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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years ago on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. At least that's how the event has been retold countless times and recorded in our history books. But, there's a misconception here that does not do justice to the woman whose act of courage began turning the wheels of the civil rights movement on that fateful day.
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Featured Profile: Dr. Earl E. Cleveland. Dr. Cleveland participated in the first March on Washington in 1957 with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has...
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Featured Profile: Johnnie Cochran was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1937. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Featured Profile: Dr. Henry Louis Gates. Dr. Gates graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in History from Yale and when he was 30 years old he won a MacArthur foundation genius grant.
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Featured Profile: Philip Emeagwali was born on August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria, the son of James Emeagwali, a nurse’s aide, and his 16-year-old wife, Agatha. In April 1967, he was...
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Featured Profile: Dr. Ben Carson. He is world-renowned for leading a medical team that separated West German conjoined twins, as well as leading a team of...
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Featured Profile:Althia Collins became the 13th president of Bennett College on July 1, 2001. Prior to this, for three years, she was the chief executive officer for Academic and Educational...
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Featured Profile: Reginald F. Lewis was born on December 7, 1942, in a Baltimore, Maryland neighborhood that he once described as "semi-tough." Strongly influenced by his family, he began his career at the age of ten, delivering the local Afro-American newspaper. 

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Far beyond the extraordinary levels of success that Usher has already achieved in his meteoric rise to global superstardom as singer, composer, producer, film and television actor, businessman and philanthropist, 2004 managed to add even further levels of accomplishment to his profile. Consider the phenomenal success of his fifth album, Confessions, which (as of this writing) is certified 8-times RIAA platinum in the U.S. alone, has surpassed 11 million copies worldwide, and continues to sell about one million copies per month. Read More...

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