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| x Frederick Douglass |
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of...
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| x Rita Dove |
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Rita Frances Dove (born 28 August 1952) is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1993, the first African American to be appointed, and received a second special appointment in...
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| x W.E.B. Du Bois |
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a...
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| x Paul Laurence Dunbar |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872– February 9, 1906) was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life, one poem in the collection Ode to Ethiopia.
Dunbar...
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| x Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 - September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist and political activist. Among the first generation born free in the South after the Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans...
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| x David Anthony Durham |
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David Anthony Durham has thus far built his reputation as an historical novelist. His first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times...
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| x Michael Dyson |
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Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
Dyson was born to Everett and Addie Dyson in Detroit, Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in religion from...
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| x Ralph Ellison |
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won...
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| x Olaudah Equiano |
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Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent Africans involved in the British movement of the abolition for the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped...
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| x Mari Evans |
Mari Evans (born July 16, 1923 in Toledo, Ohio) is an African-American poet, living in Indianapolis. She attended the University of Toledo, then pursued a teaching career. She lectured on literature and writing; she produced, wrote and directed the...
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| x Percival Everett |
Percival Everett (born 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Everett lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, novelist Danzy Senna.
While completing his MFA degree at...
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| x Jessie Redmon Fauset |
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Jessie Redmond Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist.
Fauset was born in Fredericksville, an all-black hamlet in Camden County, New Jersey, also known as Free Haven (now incorporated into the...
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| x Rudolph Fisher |
Rudolph Fisher (May 9, 1897 Washington, DC - December 26, 1934) was an African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. Fisher's parents John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, and Glendora Williamson...
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| x Leon Forrest |
Leon Richard Forrest (January 8, 1937 – November 6, 1997) was an African American novelist. His novels concerned mythology, history, and Chicago.
Forrest was born into a middle-class family in Chicago. His mother was Catholic and from New Orleans,...
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| x Ernest Gaines |
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Ernest James Gaines (born 15 January 1933) is an American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. Four of his works have been produced into...
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| x Marcus Garvey |
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African...
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| x Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received...
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| x Nikki Giovanni |
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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni (born June 7, 1943) is a Grammy-nominated American poet, activist and author. Giovanni is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech.
Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to Yolande...
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| x Roy Glenn |
Roy E. Glenn, Sr. (June 3, 1914 – March 12, 1971) was an American character actor.
Glenn's career spanned five decades, beginning in radio with shows such as Amos 'n Andy and The Jack Benny Show. He made numerous appearances on television, from its...
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| x Lawrence Otis Graham |
Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962) is an African-American attorney, speaker, and a named best-selling author by The New York Times.
Lawrence Otis Graham was born in New York, New York and raised in Westchester County, NY.
Lawrence Otis Graham is a...
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| x Dick Gregory |
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Dick Gregory (born Richard Claxton Gregory on October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur.
Gregory is an influential American comic who has used his performance skills to...
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| x Sutton E. Griggs |
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Sutton Elbert Griggs (1872-1933) was an African American author, Baptist minister, and social activist. He is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio, a utopian work that envisions a separate African American state within the United States....
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| x Angelina Weld Grimke |
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Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958) was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance and was one of the first African-American women to have a play performed.
She was born...
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| x Alex Haley |
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X (written in collaboration with Malcolm X).
Haley...
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| x Virginia Hamilton |
Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote over 35 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal.
Named...
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| x Henry Hampton |
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Henry Hampton was an American filmmaker. He was the son of surgeon Henry Hampton Sr. and Julia Veva Hampton. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Hampton would later move to Boston where he founded his film production company Blackside, Inc., in 1968....
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| x Lorraine Hansberry |
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Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African American, playwright, and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially...
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| x Vincent Harding |
Vincent Gordon Harding (born July 25, 1931) is an African American historian and a scholar of religion and society. An activist as well, he is best known for his work with and writings about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harding was born in Harlem,...
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| x Frances Harper |
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African American abolitionist and poet. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, she had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at twenty and her first...
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| x E. Lynn Harris |
Everette "E." Lynn Harris (June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books to make the The New...
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| x Robert Hayden |
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Robert Hayden (4 August 1913 – 25 February 1980) was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.
Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Michigan to Ruth and Asa...
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| x Chester Himes |
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Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 – November 12, 1984) was a famous African American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his...
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| x Pauline Hopkins |
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes. Her work...
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| x George Moses Horton |
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George Moses Horton (1797?-1883?) was an African-American slave who composed poetry. He was born into slavery on a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, North Carolina, and composed poems in his mind through his teen years. He was allowed by his...
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| x Langston Hughes |
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James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for...
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| x Zora Neale Hurston |
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her...
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| x Brenda Jackson |
Brenda Jackson (b abt 1953) is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels...
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| x Harriet Ann Jacobs |
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Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897) was an American writer, escaped slave, abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym "Linda Brent", was one...
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| x Georgia Douglas Johnson |
Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 14, 1966) was an American poet and an important member of the Harlem Renaissance.
Johnson was born in Atlanta to Laura Douglass and George Camp ...
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| x Helene Johnson |
Helen Johnson, who was better known as Helene Johnson (1907-1995) was an African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a cousin of author Dorothy West.
She spent her early years at her grandfather’s house in Boston. The rest of...
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| x Charles R. Johnson |
Charles R. Johnson (born 1948 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage...
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| x James Weldon Johnson |
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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his writing,...
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| x Mat Johnson |
Mat Johnson (born in Philadelphia August 19, 1970) is an American writer of literary fiction.
Born and raised in the Germantown and Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Johnson writes primarily about the lives of African-Americans, using fiction,...
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| x Edward P. Jones |
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Edward P. Jones is an American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia.
Jones won both the Pen/Hemingway...
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| x Tayari Jones |
Tayari Jones is an African American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Born in 1970, she was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and educated at Spelman College, the University of Iowa and Arizona State...
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| x June Jordan |
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher, and committed activist. In her three decade career Jordan made her mark as one of the fiercest and most...
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| x Ron Karenga |
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Ron Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett on July 14, 1941, and also known as Ron Everett and as Maulana Karenga) is an African American author, political activist, and college professor best known for inventing Kwanzaa, a week-long Pan-African...
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| x Elizabeth Keckley |
Elizabeth Keckley (1818/19 - 1907) was a former slave who became a seamstress for Mary Todd Lincoln, and subsequently the author of a controversial account of her life with the First Lady.
Elizabeth Keckly (often mis-spelled Keckley) was born a...
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| x Randall Kenan |
Randall Kenan (born March 12, 1963) is an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Kenan has focused his fiction on what it means to be black and gay in the southern United States. Among his books is...
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| x John Oliver Killens |
John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916 – October 27, 1987), a black American fiction writer, was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles, Sr., and Willie Lee Killens. His father Charles encouraged him to read Langston Hughes's writings and his...
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| x Jamaica Kincaid |
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Jamaica Kincaid (born as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson on 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family in North Bennington, Vermont.
Elaine Richardson lived...
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| x Etheridge Knight |
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Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who became a notable poet in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after Etheridge was arrested for...
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| x Yusef Komunyakaa |
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Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1947) is an American poet who currently teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for Neon Vernacular:...
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| x T. D. Jakes |
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Thomas Dexter "T. D." Jakes Sr. (born June 9, 1957) is an American entrepreneur and chief pastor of the The Potter's House, a 30,000 member church in Dallas, Texas. It is a non-denominational megachurch.
His church services and evangelistic sermons...
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| x Nella Larsen |
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Nellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote was of...
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| x Victor D. LaValle |
Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author who was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus and two novels, The Ecstatic and Big...
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| x Alain LeRoy Locke |
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Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. He is best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Harlem...
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| x Audre Lorde |
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Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.
Lorde was born in New York City to Caribbean immigrants Frederick Byron Lorde (called Byron) and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde, who...
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| x Glenville Lovell |
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Glenville Lovell is a writer, dancer, novelist and playwright.
Lovell was born in a Chattel house in Parish Land, Christ Church, Barbados and grew up around rich storytelling among the sugar cane workers. His first novel, Fire in the Canes was...
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| x Nathaniel Mackey |
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Nathaniel Mackey is an American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic, editor and Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Mackey is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
He has been editor and publisher of Hambone since 1982....
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