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Famous and beloved
Special to the TribuneGeorge Washington Carver. For many of us, the name triggers memory cells of 4th-grade history reports and social studies with Mrs. Nesbitt. For long before there was even such a thing as Black History Month, Carver stood out as one of the most famous...Tags: Tuskegee University, Road Transportation, New Year's Day, Plastic Surgeons, Entertainment
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Girls' classmates begin trying to understand
Tribune staff reportersThe girls' front-row desks were empty Tuesday, their recent classwork still hanging on the walls. Second-graders in teacher Brenda Payne's class at Beulah Park Elementary School in Zion spent Tuesday confronting the fact that those desks will remain...Tags: Tuskegee University, Health and Safety at School, Children, Social Issues, Career and Workplace
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Election
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday April 23, 1999 They get all the movies--or at least it seems that way. They control an impressive share of America's free time and disposable income. And most everyone covets their youthful good looks. You've always suspected it and...Tags: Adults, Entertainment, Jim Taylor, Death, Alexander Payne
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'They removed our history'
Flora Davis Crittenden was born in Brooklyn in 1924. She attended predominantly white elementary schools there and in affluent Scarsdale before her family moved back to Newport News in 1937, when she entered segregated George Washington Carver High School...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), History, Arts and Culture, Family, Minority Groups
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Movie review, 'Undercover Brother'
"Undercover Brother" has such a cheerfully zingy energy that you keep rooting for it even when its jokes turn flatter than a jump shot at a YMCA pickup game. Sending up the blaxploitation films of the 1970s would seem an easy and pointless exercise, but...Tags: Denise Richards, Entertainment, Chris Kattan, Gary Anthony Williams, Jesse Jackson
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A new black history
IT IS A MANTRA among black Americans that we are insufficiently aware of our history, that our advancement will be hobbled until we are all rooted in a sense of continuity with the past. Yet every year we are regaled with not just a Black History Day but...Tags: Entertainment, History, Emmett Till, Jesse Jackson, Tulsa
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