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  2. Yasuke - Wikipedia

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    Yasuke is the earliest known African to appear in Japanese historical records, though few records exist. Much of what is known about Yasuke appears in fragmentary accounts in the letters of the Jesuit missionary Luís Fróis, Ōta Gyūichi's Shinchō Kōki (信長公記, Nobunaga Official Chronicle), Matsudaira Ietada's Matsudaira Ietada Nikki (松平家忠日記, Matsudaira Ietada Diary ...

  3. Ricki Lake - Wikipedia

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    Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray, for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.

  4. Shades of black - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, a shade is a pure color mixed with black. It decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a "shade of black" is always a pure black itself and a "tint of black" would be a neutral gray. In practice, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation).

  5. Black power - Wikipedia

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    Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. [1] [2] It is primarily, but not exclusively, used by black activists and other proponents of what the slogan entails in the United States. [3]

  6. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Then, amidst a failed plan to relocate to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a black town, it collapsed financially. [23] Carver Junior College: Cocoa: Florida: 1960 1963 Public One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v.

  7. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair - Wikipedia

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    "Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)" (Roud 3103) is a traditional ballad folk song known in the US as associated with colonial and later music in the Appalachian Mountains. It is believed to have originated in Scotland , as it refers to the River Clyde in the lyrics.

  8. Black Axe (confraternity) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Axe's motto is "Social Justice and Equality/Equity for all." [10] Its slogan is "Aye Axemen". Black Axe's symbol is a black axe above two hands in chains or the shackles of colonialism. [7] [6] This represents the NBM's readiness to confront difficult tasks and to break social injustice, along with other vices that limit humanity's ...

  9. Black Bolt - Wikipedia

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    Black Bolt (Blackagar Boltagon) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #45 (December 1965). [1] Black Bolt is the ruler of Attilan, and a member of the Inhumans, a reclusive race of genetically altered superhumans. Black Bolt ...