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In the early 1950s, the SPHAS, then led by the talented point guard Red Klotz, defeated the all-black Harlem Globetrotters in two exhibition games.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Mezzrow performed in otherwise all-black jazz bands, married a black woman, and moved to Harlem.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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He gave Smith three choices: Keep the Navigator L with the gray interior, order the Kansas City vehicle or order another model, such as the more common standard-length Navigator, with an all-black interior.
'Fully loaded' SUV puts D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown on the spot 2011
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The inward perspective of an all-black club, he argued, could only abet the exclusion of Harlem's writers and poets from the open corridors of American literature.
Passing Fancies James Campbell 2011
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He gave Smith three choices: Keep the Navigator L with the gray interior, order the Kansas City vehicle or order another model, such as the more common standard-length Navigator, with an all-black interior.
'Fully loaded' SUV puts D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown on the spot 2011
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Howland called her back within a half-hour and then explained in an e-mail that a vehicle with an all-black interior had been found in Kansas City but would have taken two weeks to deliver - too late for Brown's inauguration.
'Fully loaded' SUV puts D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown on the spot 2011
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Baldwin, who arrived in Paris two years later, tried to evade the "inevitable . . . discussion" by following his all-black novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," with an all-white one, "Giovanni's Room" 1956, probably the first "passing novel" by a Harlem writer.
Passing Fancies James Campbell 2011
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Emporio Armani's all-black collection was titled "Spy," but these would-be secret agents weren't very enigmatic.
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Spawn would forgo his traditional outfit in favor of an all-black ensemble.
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He suggests a reason for the demographic shift: Rising property values all over the city -- including in "virtually all-black and more often than not poor" neighborhoods like Anacostia -- that force old residents out, and "gentrification" in the form of bars and restaurants that draw new white developers and residents in.
A 'more vanilla' D.C. sparks debate Maggie Fazeli Fard 2011
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