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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Frances L. Murphy II, Washington publisher emeritus and editorial page editor of the Afro-American Newspapers, was an associate professor and head of the journalism sequence at the State University at...

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Dorothy Ruth Wilson Coleman

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Dorothy Ruth Coleman was born on April 3, 1936 in the small town of Crowley, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Reverend J.J. Wilson and Delia Pierre Wilson. Dorothy Ruth Wilson Coleman has proven to b...

Crowley LA United States

Dianna Robyn Coles

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Dianna Robyn Coles was born on January 18, 1970, in Buffalo's Millard Fillmore Hospital to Robert and Claudia Coles (nee Clark) (Deceased). Robert Coles was the first minority Union Steward at WKBW-AB...

Buffalo NY United States

Shirley Ann Cummings Parks

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Shirley A. Parks has dedicated her entire life to helping those who are in need and being an ambassador for Christ. She has demonstrated her Christian values in every aspect of her life. Shirley was b...

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Natosha Cummings Price

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Natosha Cummings-Price is a native from Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is the granddaughter of Naomi Cummings a Chouteau, Oklahoma native. In 1991, Natosha graduated from Muskogee High School and attended Ce...

Muskogee OK United States

Lillie Bell Curry Blunt

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Lillie Bell Curry Blunt, born April 7, 1907 is the daughter of Sid Curry and Katie Jones Curry Westbrook. She is the granddaughter of the late Jake Jones and Susan Jones and the great granddaughter of...

Freddie Foshee Cudjoe

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Freddie Foshee graduated from Sapulpa high school in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and dreamed of a future as a nurse. Her grandmother, who was the family muse, and who recited poetry for the children each night,...

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Zola Lowery Crowell

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Jun 16, 2011 Biographies

Zola Crowell is a native of Andalusia, Alabama. Her parents, the late Lester and Lurine Cauley Lowery, moved the family to Niagara Falls, New York in the early 1950s. Zola has over thirty years of wor...

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Janique Copeland Curry

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

"Excellence is never an accident; it is the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, skillful execution and the vision to see obstacles as opportunities." So beautifully stated...

Brooklyn NY United States

Dorothy Lee Cooks

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Dorothy Lee Cooks, the daughter of Arthur and Jessie Lee Ervin Cooks, was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie County in 1948. Dorothy has eleven siblings. She is a graduate of Macomb High School. ...

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Francine Conwell

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

Francine Conwell received her undergraduate degree from Wagner College and her Masters Degree from Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. She has a C.A.S. from the State University of New York at Br...

April Smith Coley

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Jun 15, 2011 Biographies

A native of Buffalo, April Smith Coley has called North Carolina home for many years. Leaving Buffalo in the late 70's because of the passing of her mother, the late Cottie B. Williams, she moved to N...

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