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  • October 30, 2021October 30, 2021

Honoring the Forgotten Harlem Hellfighters: An Exceptional Unit of Black Soldiers

By Precious Fondren For most of her life, Debra Willett had a vague idea about who her grandfather was. She knew he had fought in France in World War I at some point. But she didn’t grasp th

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Dance Theater of Harlem

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Billy Porter and India.Irie

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