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Alicia Keys talks 'Stick Fly' and black Broadway revolution (VIDEO)

By Ron Allen

12:00 PM on 02/23/2012

VIDEO - Keys co-produced the Broadway play 'Stick Fly', in addition to composing the music that fills the transitions between scenes...
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Priscilla's story: detailed slave records link one African-American family to remarkable ancestor

By Ron Allen

10:34 AM on 02/20/2012

VIDEO - The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their past. They're able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to a little girl. Her name was Priscilla...
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'Priscilla's Roots' tells the story of a kidnapping more than 250 years old

By Ron Allen

9:00 AM on 02/15/2012

ROCK CENTER - The Martin family knows something about themselves that few if any families will ever learn about their past. They're able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years to a little girl...
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Haiti earthquake 2 years later: Stranded children in adoption limbo

By Ron Allen

4:52 PM on 01/09/2012

NBC NEWS - Ron Allen follows the story of a group of Haitian children awaiting adoption by American parents when the devastating earthquake struck two years ago...
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Philly mayor: flash mobbers 'damaging their race'

By Ron Allen

7:52 AM on 08/12/2011

PHILADELPHIA - Philly Mayor Michael Nutter, in what many have called a "Bill Cosby," moment, calls out the city's African American youth, and their parents...
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Reporter's notebook: An African-American telling African stories

By Ron Allen

10:07 AM on 10/06/2010

OPINION - Every time I travel to Africa, there's a very powerful desire to be able to narrow down that hopelessly broad identification, "African-American," at least just a bit...
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Slideshow: Surprising beauty amidst struggle in Sierra Leone

By Ron Allen

8:39 AM on 09/09/2010

SLIDESHOW - I'll remember a place full of natural beauty, the ocean, the mountains, the clear night skies....
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NFL star never forgets his Sierra Leone homeland

By Ron Allen

9:00 AM on 09/08/2010

OPINION - Madieu Williams is a guy who gives millions from his own pocket, because he's concerned about poverty in the developing world...
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Haitian children adjust to new life in America

By Ron Allen

10:45 AM on 08/02/2010

VIDEO - "It has been a journey," says Missy Wilson, an adoptive mother. "It has had its great, great days. It has had its very difficult days."...
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Africa marks international day celebrating children

By Ron Allen

2:39 PM on 06/17/2010

SIERRA LEONE - June 16, the International Day of the African Child, is an annual moment of recognition that has been observed across the continent since 1992...
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One 'dialogue' in a long conversation about race

By Ron Allen

4:11 PM on 07/30/2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -The most intriguing moment in the confrontation between Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley was when Crowley came to understand that the man in the house was in fact who he said he was, that he was in his own home and that there had...
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