Check out the following sites:
- The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
- Black History Month - The History Channel
This February celebrate Black History Month by learning more about it online!
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![]() ![]() Tennis Player Arthur Ashe Announces He Has AIDS (1992)Ashe was the first African-American male to reach prominence in tennis and was thus a very public figure, even after his retirement, which followed a 1979 heart attack and quadruple-bypass surgery. In 1983, he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during a second heart surgery. He kept it a secret until 1992, when a newspaper threatened to publish a story about his illness. His subsequent openness about AIDS helped combat the disease's stigma. How much longer did Ashe live? More... Discuss |
bald-faced discuss | |
Definition: | (adjective) Brash; undisguised. |
Synonyms: | brazen, insolent, audacious, barefaced, bodacious, brassy |
Usage: | John's excuse for missing work was such a bald-faced lie that his boss immediately fired him. |
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