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- Akwasi Osei
- Sep 4, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 8, 2022
WGPR-TV in Detroit, the first Black-owned television station in the United States, began broadcasting on this day in 1975.
Former Mozambique President Samora Machel was born this day in 1933.
On this day in 1784, Prince Hall established the First African Freemason Lodge, #459.
Sir W. Arthur Lewis became the first Black person to earn the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on this day in 1979.
The National Urban League was established on this day in 1910 in New York City. It is a civil rights organization committed to enhancing equality, social, economic and political justice.
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