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  2. The Four Larks (Philadelphia group) - Wikipedia

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    Weldon McDougal. Jackie Marshall. Calvin Nichols. Bill Oxendine. Joe Shamwell. The Four Larks were an R&B group that recorded from the 1960s through to the 1970s on various record labels. Their singles have been released on at least ten different record labels. They had a hit on the pop charts with "It's Unbelievable".

  3. Nation of Islam - Wikipedia

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    Islam portal Politics portal. v. t. e. The Nation of Islam ( NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A black nationalist organization, the NOI focuses its attention on the African diaspora, especially on African Americans. While describing itself as Islamic, its religious ...

  4. Black - Wikipedia

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    Source. HTML/CSS [1] B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. [2] It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. [3]

  5. Wadsworth Jarrell - Wikipedia

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    Spouse. Jae Jarrell. Patron (s) Murry N. DePillars. Wadsworth Aikens Jarrell (born November 20, 1929) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born in Albany, Georgia, and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he attended the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation, he became heavily involved in the local art scene and through his ...

  6. Black Feminist Thought - Wikipedia

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    Black feminist thought is a field of knowledge that is focused on the perspectives and experiences of Black women. There are several arguments in support of this definition. First, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality (1966) and Karl Manheim in Ideology and Utopia (1936) similarly argue that the definition ...

  7. Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, commonly referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania [11] and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the larger Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the nation's seventh-largest ...

  8. List of U.S. cities with large Black populations - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, the states of Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Mississippi each had one majority-black city. [citation needed] In 2020, the largest cities which had a black majority were Detroit, Michigan (population 639K), Memphis, Tennessee (population 633K), Baltimore, Maryland ...

  9. Black Economic Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Black Economic Empowerment ( BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people. A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially to redress the inequalities created by apartheid. The policy provides incentives – especially preferential treatment in government ...