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Oakland mayor’s chief of staff fired after referring to black people as ‘tokens’ in resurfaced note: reports
A high-ranking Oakland city official has been fired after a note she wrote last year that appeared to refer to black people ...
Never-before-seen scrapbooks tell the story of Pearl Bailey’s life from North Philadelphia to Hollywood
Bailey was born in Newport News, Va. in 1917. In the 1930s, she moved to North Philadelphia’s 1946 N. 23rd Street — a blue ...