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Taliaferro
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Guest Column: Growing Up Taliaferro
While I consider Baltimore, Maryland, my childhood home, I was born in Los Angeles, where my father, George Taliaferro, was a member of the…
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‘Race and Football in America’
In Race and Football in America, Dawn Knight traces the impact that the late Indiana University football hero George Taliaferro had on her and…
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Mary Ann Macklin: Activist Minister
It was that nagging little voice inside—along with some encouragement from Mom—that ultimately set Mary Ann Macklin on her true path. Macklin, senior minister…
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Bloomingtonians Who Broke the Color Barrier
In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson smashed baseball’s color barrier when he became the first African American to play in the major leagues.…