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President Trumpâs decision to renew his trade war with China could inflict lasting damage on the American economy, but the ultimate impact depends on how far the president takes the fight.
As the number of African-American baseball players continues to decline, black players are often surprised to find themselves in the minority even at historically black colleges.
The Trump administration has cut the small but steady influx of refugees into the United States, leading some cities to woo the ones who are already here.
The economic conflict between the United States and China, the worldâs two biggest economies, showed little sign of ending soon.
The comedianâs new HBO special, âHome Videos,â is an intimate look at his familyâs history and his own willingness to share it with his audience.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 2019, covering May 13, 2019.
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2019Doris Day, American singer and actress (born 1922)[â ]
Doris Day was an American actress and singer. With an entertainment career which spanned nearly 50 years, Day was one of the most popular and acclaimed female singers of the 1940s and 1950s, with a parallel career as a leading actress in Hollywood films, where she became one of the biggest box-office stars of the 1960s. She was known for her on-screen girl next door image and her distinctive singing voice.
2019Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1933)[â ]
Unita Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a leader of the USâChina Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. She also served as an advisor to six US presidents: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[â ]