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Daily Excerpt Subject
toni morrison -- 2/28/20
african americans colonizing mexico -- 2/27/20
slavery and turpentine production -- 2/26/20
the malian king who may have discovered the americas -- 2/25/20
frederick douglass visits abraham lincoln -- 2/24/20
the complicated legacy of minstrel shows -- 2/21/20
segregation at the lincoln memorial -- 2/20/20
sickle cell anemia -- 2/19/20
kofi annan's father was a stickler for time -- 2/18/19
george gershwin and porgy and bess -- 2/14/20
the sensational josephine baker arrives in paris -- 2/13/20
an expedition to the north pole -- 2/12/20
african cuisine in the americas -- 2/11/20
the richest african american woman in america -- 2/10/20
texas music -- 2/7/20
200 deaths at the mexico olympics -- 2/6/20
mamie phipps clark and segregation -- 2/05/20
why africa has found it so difficult to industrialize -- 2/4/19
j.p. morgan's librarian -- 2/3/20