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Serena Williams Wins 2013 French Open Women's Title
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June 8, 2013: Serena Williams of the U.S. celebrates winning against Russia's Maria Sharapova in two sets 6-4, 6-4, in the women's final of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris.
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An adorable Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple and their daughter generated such a strong racist backlash on YouTube that the comments section had to be closed.
Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus, 24, left, and David Hernandez Cruz, 24, were arrested in Mexico City in connection with last week's death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X. This undated composite image was released by Mexico City's prosecutor's office (PGJDF) on Monday, May 13, 2013.(Photo: AP)
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities have arrested two waiters suspected of being involved in last week's beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, the 28-year-old grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. Prosecutors said police were seeking at least two other people believed to have participated in the attack on Shabazz. Shabazz died Thursday of blunt-force trauma injuries. Prosecutor Rodolfo Fernando Rios said The Palace Bar employees David Hernandez Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Perez de Jesus would be charged with aggravated robbery and homicide. Rios said there was no indication of a racial motivation in the attack on Shabazz, who was assaulted after he drank with a friend at the Palace bar on Garibaldi Plaza. Martin Suarez, a labor activist who was in Mexico with Shabazz, said Friday that the fight broke out after the bar's owner insisted that Shabazz pay a $1,200 bill. Suarez said he found Shabazz injured outside the bar and took him to a hospital, where Shabazz died. Many of the bars around Garibaldi Plaza are notorious for overcharging customers, particularly foreigners, often on the pretext that customers must pay for time spent talking with female employees. Contributing: Lee Higgins and Ned P. Rauch, The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News, The Associated Press.
What do these two celebrities have in common? They each appeared on the reality show "Splash" which airs on ABC each week. Splash is a reality show about celebrities performing dives from extreme heights. Each each week, the dives increase in difficulty. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is still active on the show but, Keisha Knight-Pulliam got eliminated in the first round on March 13, 2013.
Fact: In 1966, Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording together with Harry Belafonte for An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba(LISTEN NOW! 32.49min.). The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid, and it was one of the first American albums to present traditional Zulu, Sotho and Swahili songs in an authentic setting.
Gregarious Venezuelan Leader Hugo Chavez Dead at 58
Relive This Provocative Time of the Civil Rights Movement:
The March On Selma
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What is the Harlem Shake?
A dance created by a man in Rucker Park in the 1980s has become a global Internet sensation three decades later.
More than 30 years before motorcycle helmet- and spandex-wearing men pelvic-thrusted their way to 10 million YouTube views apiece, the Harlem Shake was perfected by a man in New York City's Rucker Park who went by the name of Al B.
St. Patrick's Day Entertainment Leprechaun: In The Hood Warwick Davis, Ice-T. Three rap artists in the hood, seeking fame and needing money, break into Mack Daddy's house to steal a lot of jewelry. But when they take a medallion off an ugly old statue, it transforms into a bloodthirsty leprechaun. 2000/color/91 min/R/widescreen. Watch Movie Trailer
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African American Muslim minister and civil rights activist Malcolm X was shot dead 48 years ago.
The 39-year-old was gunned down in front of a crowd of hundreds – including several of his own children – as he began a speech at Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965.
Former Nation Of Islam leader and civil rights activist
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X and Malcolm Little) poses for a portrait
on February 16, 1965, in Rochester, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs
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American civil rights leader Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
sits and meets with Prince (later King) Faisal al-Saud the regent of Saudi
Arabia (1906 - 1975) during a visit as a guest of state and as a pilgrim to the
Muslim holy city of Mecca, April 1964. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty
Images)
Cassius Marcellus Clay (Muhammad Ali) with Black Muslim
leader Malcolm X at 125th St. and Seventh Ave. (Photo by John Peodincuk/NY Daily
News Archive via Getty Images)
American civil rights activist Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
speaks at a podium during a Black Muslim rally in Washington DC, circa 1963.
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Photo of Malcolm X (Photo by Michael Ochs
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A Painted Wall In St. Louis, Missouri, Displays The
Painted Faces Of Muhammad Ali, Toussaint Louverture, Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King Jr. And Perhaps Haile Selassie, In The 1970'S. The Inscription Reads : 'Up,
You Mighty Race'. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty
Images)
July 1964 portrait shows Black Muslim leader Malcolm X.
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Talmadge Hayer, aka Thomas Hagan, in Jewish Memorial
Hospital after killing of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 in New York City. Hayer
was wounded in leg fellowing shooting of Malcolm. (Photo by Judd Mehlman/NY
Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.”
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