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#OTD 1930, Lorraine Hansberry, playwright and writer was born. She was he first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for A Raisin in the Sun. The Hansberry family home is a historic landmark in Chicago. Follow @SankofaTravelHr https://t.co/vdPR44yeWu

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Black History Month is next Wednesday. Those that think that black history is only in February, now is the time to locate your dashikis, red, black and green flag, MLKs I Have A Dream, Malcolm X By Any Means Necessary. Some think black history month is only MLK, Parks, Tubman. https://t.co/UgV9Rafdk6

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#OTD 1897, Harriet Jacobs, who wrote her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, under the pseudonym, Linda Brent, passed away. She is buried next to her daughter, Louisa. https://t.co/MsOTgb5izc

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#OTD 1998, Black Panther and author, Eldridge Cleaver, passed away. His memoir ''Soul on Ice'' was published in 1968. Follow @SankofaTravelHr https://t.co/xyzyE0BCRJ

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#OTD 1907, seamstress and author of Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, Elizabeth Keckley, passed away. She purchased her freedom and was the personal dressmaker for first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The headstone was dedicated in 2010. https://t.co/hLlUMFWktl

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R.I.P Useni Eugene Perkins. In 1974, Perkins wrote the poem "Hey Black Child." He was an artist, poet, playwright, community leader, publisher of the Black Child Journal and the founder of The Institute for The Positive Development of Black Youth. Follow @SankofaTravelHr https://t.co/xjOPoJU4ZI

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#OTD 1891, Zora Neale Hurston, novelist during the Harlem Renaissance, was born. Her body of work includes Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men and Barracoon. What is your favorite book? Follow @SankofaTravelHr https://t.co/cKNmeU1ZQc

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#OTD 1946, author and poet during the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen, passed away. in 1935, he became the first African American writer in the 20th century to translate and publish Euripides' classical work Medea. Follow @SankofaTravelHr https://t.co/z3iPpevWCj