The single We Are the World is the eight best-selling physical single of all time. 

With more than 20 million copies sold, the song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie raised money for African famine relief. The recording brought together the most popular artists of its time, such as Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, and Ray Charles amongst many others.

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As a high-school senior in San Antonio, Texas, Shaquille O’Neal attracted the attention of college recruiters when his team won the state championship. 

O’Neal attended Louisiana State University. He is one of only three players to win NBA MVP, All-Star Game MVP and Finals MVP awards in the same year (2000).

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Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American educator Mary Jane McLeod Bethune. 

Born on July 10, 1875 in Mayesville, South Carolina, to parents who had been enslaved, Bethune attended college hoping to become a missionary in Africa.  

She went on to have a career as an educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist and civil rights activist. Bethune is the founder of the National Council for Negro Women, as well as the first Black Hospital in Daytona, Florida.

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On March 5, The American Negro Academy was founded by Alexander Crummell. 

It was the first organization in the United States to support African-American academic scholarship and operated from 1897 to 1928. 

Some of the most highly educated and socially prominent African Americans and other students of African descent attended.

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Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh remember American jazz singer Sarah Lois Vaughan. She was nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One” and won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Born in Newark, NJ, Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing on 52nd Street in New York City at the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat, and the Onyx Club.

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Isabella "Belle" Baumfree was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843.

In May 1851, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, where she delivered her famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights, later known as "Ain't I a Woman?”

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On March 4, Ida Gray, the first African-American woman to become a dentist in the U.S.A., was born. 

Gray had a 40-year career as a dentist and became the first Black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago. 

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Thomas L. Jennings was the first Black man to receive a patent. 

The patent, awarded March 3, 1821, was for his discovery of a process called dry-scouring which was the forerunner of today’s modern dry-cleaning. 

Jennings was a tailor and passionate abolitionist who opened a dry cleaning business in New York City. 

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, an American activist during the civil rights movement, but is best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. On Thursday, December 1, 1955 she was arrested after refusing to move to the colored section of the bus.

The United States Congress has called Ms. Parks “The First Lady of Civil Rights.”

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Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song. 

Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, and made her most important debut at age 17 on November 21, 1934, in one of the earliest Amateur Nights at the Apollo Theater.

Fitzgerald won thirteen Grammy Awards, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. 

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