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	Black history

NAACP Awards celebrates ’For Colored Girls’

In case you forgot, the 42nd NAACP Awards ceremony aired on Fox TV last night. Anybody watch it?

I’ll save the color commentary and just post the list of winners, which follows below (no real surprises):

• Afrika Bambaataa: Founder of hip-hop culture

• BET Honors celebrates black culture

• Carter G. Woodson: the Father of Black History Month

• Unlikely backers legitimize Black History Month observance

• Jack Johnson: A Great African-American champion from Ghana

• ’Washington’ most common Black US surname

• George Washington Carver: A scientific pioneer

• Rosa Parks: A Black heroine

• No Blacks nominated for 2010 Academy Awards

• Timeline commemorates Black History Month

• From Negro History Week to Black History Month

• US plans National Black Museum for 2015

• Tribute to Patrice Lumumba: His last letter

• Hip-hop remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

• Tayo Fatunla: Lessons in Black History

• The ancient coin that gives impetus to China-Africa trade

• Great Zimbabwe: An African empire

• Ancient arrows and Africa’s place as the cradle of technology

• Africa’s "wind of change" and a 50 year struggle

• Discovering John H. Johnson: An African-American media mogul

• Algeria’s Timgad Roman ruins: A "Numidian Pompeii"

• Ethiopia: Story of world’s oldest illustrated Bible authenticated

• Sudan banking on foreign-run archaeological digs

• Africa’s cultural heritage treasure war with Europe

• Marshall W. “Major” Taylor: First Black world champion cyclist

• African cultural heritage fight with the West fuelled by national identity

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