| Biographies People who helped shape history
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| | Mabley, Moms |
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| | Madhubuti, Haki R. |
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| | Mahal, Taj |
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| | Mahoney, Mary |
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 | Malcolm X |
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| | Malone, Karl |
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| | Malone, Moses |
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 | Mandela, Nelson |
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| | Manley, Michael |
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| | Marichal, Juan |
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| | Marsalis family |
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| | Marshall, Paule |
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| | Marshall, Thurgood |
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| | Martha and the Vandellas |
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| | Mason, Charlotte |
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 | Matzeliger, Jan Ernst |
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| | Mayfield, Curtis |
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 | Mays, Willie |
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| | Mbeki, Thabo |
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| | McCalla, Val |
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| | McDaniel, Hattie |
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| | McGhee, Brownie |
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| | McKay, Claude |
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| | McLean, Jackie |
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| | McMillan, Terry |
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| | McPhatter, Clyde |
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| | McPherson, James Alan |
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| | McRae, Carmen |
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| | Menard, John Willis |
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| | Mengistu Haile Mariam |
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 | Menken, Adah Isaacs |
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| | Meredith, James |
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| | Metcalfe, Ralph |
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| | Micheaux, Oscar |
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| | Milla, Roger |
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| | Miller, May |
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 | Miller, Samuel Freeman |
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| | Mills, Florence |
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| | Miner, Myrtilla |
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| | Mingus, Charles |
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| | Mitchell, Arthur |
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| | Mobley, Hank |
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| | Mobutu Sese Seko |
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| | Modern Jazz Quartet |
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| | Mohammed, Warith Deen |
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| | Moi, Daniel arap |
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| | Monk, Thelonious |
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| | Montgomery, Little Brother |
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| | Montgomery, Wes |
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| | Moody, Anne |
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 | Moonglows |
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| | Moore, Archie |
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| | Morgan, Joe |
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| | Morgan, Lee |
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 | Morrison, Toni |
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| | Morton, Jelly Roll |
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| | Moseley Braun, Carol |
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| | Moses, Edwin |
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| | Mosley, Walter |
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| | Moss, Carlton |
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| | Moten, Bennie |
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| | Motley, Constance Baker |
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| | Motley, Marion |
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| | Mugabe, Robert |
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| | Muhammad, Elijah |
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| | Murphy, Eddie |
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| | Murphy, Isaac Burns |
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| | Murray, Albert L. |
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| | Musa |
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