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Are you game for bid whist?(Brief Article)
Black Enterprise
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November 1, 1999|
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Here's how black professionals turn cards into contacts
Whenever I have a social affair at the house, there is always a contingent of people who say, `Let's play whist,'" says Roland MacFarland, vice president of standards for the Fox Television Network. "And there are probably eight people waiting to play the winners."
MacFarland and his colleagues are caught up in the excitement of bid whist. The card game has been a tradition of African Americans since slavery, according to research by Angel Beck. She writes the only syndicated bid whist column in the ...
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George Foreman Says That Joe Louis Was Better `Boxer' Than Muhammad Ali.(boxer)(Brief Article)
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; ...Joe Louis was better than Muhammad Ali. "There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis," Foreman...coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to...lost the heavyweight title to Ali in Zaire in 1974. That historic...
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Muhammad ali, boxer
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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; A fan of Muhammad Ali has nearly fulfilled a promise...medal. According to some, Ali tossed his gold medal into...injustice. Others say the boxer simply lost the medal. Sininger...the medal began when he met Ali in 1992 while working with...
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Magazine article from: Jet
; ...Former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali's longtime manager and...movie about the legendary boxer. Former manager Jabir Herbert Muhammad and partner Jason Marcus Hirschfeld, who comprised Muhammad Ali Production Company Inc...
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Magazine article from: Jet
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Magazine article from: Jet
; ...blood between him and arch-rival Muhammad Ali during an appearance in New York...the 52-year-old Frazier said of Ali, 54, who is battling with Parkinson...article, Frazier said of watching Ali light the Olympic flame: "It would...
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Boxer Muhammad Ali Turns 65
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
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 "The Independent on Saturday (South Africa)")
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Newspaper article from: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa)
; ...that was not the only concern of Muhammad Ali's first wife, Sonji Roi, according...twins Jamilla and Rasheeda and Muhammad Ali Jnr. But in 1976 Belinda filed...Fondly known as Lonnie , Yolanda Ali - Muhammad's fourth wife - is still married...
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