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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 1 Oprah Winfrey

Thank you for reading the Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011 series by Aberjhani. To catch up on the entire series please see the...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 2 President Obama

Prior to leaving Washington D.C. on December 23 to join his family on Christmas vacation in Hawaii, President Barack Obama spent the week...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from 2011: No. 3 Afro-descendants worldwide

Although it was mostly disregarded by mainstream media throughout 2011, the United Nations’ observance of the International Yearfor People of...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 4 the MLK Jr. Memorial

The official opening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to the public on October 16, 2011, both...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 5 those now departed

Death is as much a part of life as living itself, and even as recently as December 16 when recording artist Slim Dunkin/Mario Hamilton, only 24...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 6 Sonny Rollins

Welcome to number 6 in Aberjhani’s Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011:Preeminent saxophonist and all-around jazzmaster Sonny...
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Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011: No. 7 and still women rise

It is not uncommon in modern times for African-American womento win major literary awards but it is rare, if not unprecedented, for two such women...
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Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011: No. 8 Execution in Georgia

The twenty-year battle to confirm the guilt or innocence of former Georgia death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis in the case of slain Savannah police...
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Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 9 Belafonte's new song

Human and civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X (Malik El-Shabazz) have become so indelibly symbolic of 1960s African America...
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Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011: No. 10 the $7 billion actor

If you missed the introduction to Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011 posted December 12, please click here. The actual countdown...
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