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Article: Celebrities Reveal Their Favorite Heroes In Black History.(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- February 21, 2000
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As the nation celebrates Black History Month, some of today's hottest celebrities share with JET their favorite Black History heroes--past and present. Their choices range from abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to 90-year-old living dance legend Katherine Dunham.
GLADYS KNIGHT, legendary soul singer: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is definitely my favorite hero. I admire what he stood for like everybody else. But oh, my goodness, it is so close to the teachings of Christ. And that's what he was trying to tell us in his mountaintop speech. He knew that we wouldn't understand it. But he had been ...