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Chairman Fred grew up during the peer pressure to either dress as a "Gouster" or an Ivy Leaguer. Gunplay was so rampant, Elijah Muhammad referenced the proliferation of guns among
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In a sense none of us really have lived- because none of us experienced The Chitlin' Circuit. We didn't pick out outfits f/ the concerts, we didn't wait in lines
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Super Bowl I was televised on both NBC & CBS, & crews shared some equipment. There were 30,000 empty seats in the L.A. Coliseum. The Packers had eight Negro players,
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Leon's death calls to mind the '76 U.S. Olympic team. Leon @ 178, Michael @ 165, Ray Leonard @ 139 w/ a pic of his gf on his sock. Leo
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On 1/11/64, The Supremes weren't a thing yet. But they made "...Bandstand" this way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgL_zixdiQk&list=RDnxmcWS5l9JE&index=5 A Supremes ad f/ The Motortown Revue, before they were national
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Martha's Vineyard Regional H.S. boys basketball 1976. This team was ahead of Catherdal 22-19 after 1Q, & down only one @ halftime. Cathedral had Tom Jones, Satch Suttles, Gary Burke
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Coretta Scott met in Boston. Ph.D candidate King had friends in Roxbury, including Herman Hemingway of Ruthven St (where my cousin Stuey
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55 years ago this week, the series "Batman" debuted on ABC. Burt Ward's salary was $55 an ep The series was originally planned to be straightforward in tone, a la
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A thread about federal preparation f/ large public assemblies in D.C. RFK felt The March On Washington, if unruly could set back ethnic integration in Southern schools. DC police wanted
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The first time I visited Puerto Rico I didn't rent a car, & I cribbed w/ an aunt in Rio Grande de Loiza. I was about 30. She had moved
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Hugh Downs died. Downs not only co-hosted "TODAY" during its apex, he'd double down later in the morning/early afternoon & host "Concentration". He was The Man. His tenure encompassed the
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80 years ago today Wilma Rudolph was born. She wore a leg brace due to polio until she was 12. Her left leg & foot were atrophied. She has 21
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