Portal:African American/Did you know/6
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- ... that African American actor Lorenzo Tucker, the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats, was dubbed the "black Valentino" because of his striking good looks?
- ... that Pernessa C. Seele, the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
- ... that a civil rights lawsuit brought by Andrew W. Cooper led to the election of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
- ... that Mule Bone, a play by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, had its world premiere in 1991, more than 60 years after it was written?
