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Meet Audra McDonald, Broadway’s biggest Tony Award winner of all time

JET magazine to release final print issue

The world’s oldest university was founded by a African woman

Teacher suspended over blackface lesson, later reinstated

LaVerne Cox makes history as first trans person to be featured on cover of TIME

Maya Angelou dead at 86

Erika Hayes James becomes Emory Business School’s first black female dean

Jet Magazine cancels print edition

California Assembly passes bill that would ban the Confederate flag

Keke Palmer lands talk show, will become youngest talk show host in TV history

Singer Dencia not so thrilled about Lupita Nyong’o’s Lancôme deal

Towson University Debate Team becomes first black female pair to win championship

Couple wins lottery three times in one month

Woman makes history by becoming college’s first African American female president

’12 Years a Slave’ filming site to become baseball field despite protests

Of 3,200 children’s books, just 93 were about blacks

A brief list of nations that imported white people to ‘lighten’ the population

Jason Collins signed to Nets for rest of season

On Jeopardy episode, no one wanted to answer questions about black Americans

Exhibit showcasing work of civil rights artists to be on display at Brooklyn Museum

Clarence Thomas: ‘Northern liberal elites worse than segregated south’

Cal State-LA students, faculty argue for Ethnic Studies requirement

Photo series honoring black leaders made into coffee table book

Meet John W. Thompson: Microsoft’s first black chairman

Seattle Seahawks Russell Wilson becomes second black quarterback to win Super Bowl

First black president in school’s history appointed to Ohio State University

School gives 9-year-old Confederate hat as prize

Happy birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.!

In 2013, not one black artist had a no.1 single

Amber Ruffin makes history as first female writer for a late night talk show

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