In The Meantime Men's Group was conducting free HIV testing and passing out condoms on Thursday, which was National Black HIV Awareness Day.

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There were three black reporters outside among those, what started out on the first day (September 4, 1957) as 100 or less people out there, by September 23rd had grown to at least 1, 000.

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Much earlier in the day hundreds of coaches, cars and vans decked out in black-and-white flags and scarves travelled to London.

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Still wearing eye black long after the final out, he acknowledged having jitters for his first opening day start in the majors.

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By the day, the evidence mounts for taking action to change the black-out rule: ticket sales across the NFL have been decreasing for the past two seasons and there is an increasing number of people staying home to watch games two conditions that were thus in effect before the economy hit its turbulent patch.

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In the way that rock and roll started out as a black art form and now it's overwhelmingly white, will one day white rappers be the majority?

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At dawn the next day, around 150 miles inland, Bruce Ryan pulls on his black Stetson hat and heads out into a dew-soaked morning.

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Somewhere out West, there is an 80-year-old black woman who never thought she'd see the day when a black man would be elected president.

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