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12-03-2024 8:41 am • PDX and SEA Weather
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Amanda Gorman sat down with Oprah Winfrey virtually in 2021 about her history-making inauguration appearance and wrote a poem for the television icon’s 70th birthday. However, the two had never met in person until last week at the Democratic National Convention.
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Lisa Leslie (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Kevin Durant made Olympic history last week during Team USA’s game against Brazil in the 2024 Paris Olympics quarterfinals, Sports Illustrated reports. Durant scored 11 points in Team USA’s 122-87 victory over Brazil for a career total of 494 points, becoming the all-time U.S. leading scorer in Olympic games for men’s or women’s basketball.
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The United States had its first Black president and its first female president over a half-century ago. They were fictional, they were on screen, their names were Douglass Dilman and Leslie McCloud, and in the decades that followed there have been many others. Yet none quite lines up with Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2024 election who is a biracial woman.
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Jazz music and Black life in America are dominant themes in an exhibition of Frank Stewart's photographs on display at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. A career retrospective entitled "Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present,” is on display through Sept. 22
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Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Adrián Beltré (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Beltré led this year’s class with 95.1% of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America vote in his first year on the ballot. Helton followed with 79.7% of the vote in his sixth year of eligibility and Mauer received 76.1% of the BBWAA vote in his first year.
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She’s emerged victorious!
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Bethann Hardison is a pioneering fashion model who broke barriers in the 1960s as one of few Black runway models to reach the highest heights of the industry. Feeling the need to shed a little light on how she makes it all work eight decades later, Hardison sat down with PEOPLE to share her 7 tips for aging gracefully.
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Biniam Girmay is a 24-year-old bicyclist from Eritrea, NBC News reports. No stranger to history-making, Girmay was thrust into the spotlight two years ago after becoming the first Black rider to win in a Grand Tour, the term for the three major three-week races: the Giro, the Tour, and the Spanish Vuelta.
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The poster child for Black excellence.
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Glenn Burke (Photo: NNPA)
Glenn Burke, a former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the first openly gay MLB player, is credited with inventing the high five during a game against the Houston Astros in 1977.
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