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[[Image - photo - Bill Cosby and others]]
Bill Cosby, in the "Black History: Lost, Strayed or Stolen" segment of the CBS News 1968 series, OF BLACK AMERICA, brought Black history not just to a classroom but to the nation.  He currently stars in FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS on CBS Television Network on Saturday afternoons.

[[Image - photo - Meadowlark Lemon and Rodney Allen Rippy]]
Meadowlark Lemon of the famed Harlem Globetrotters, shows little Rodney Allen Rippy a few basketball tricks on "The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine," the Saturday morning live-action series which premiered on the CBS Television Network in 1974.

From the annals of CBS comes this notable "family album" of recognition of Black achievement in radio, records and television

[[Image - photo - Members of the Alvin Ailey Dance group]]
Members of the Alvin Ailey Repertory Workshop danced "Ailey Celebrates Ellington" in a memorial tribute to the late Duke on THE CBE FESTIVAL OF LIVELY ARTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

[[Image - photo- Michele Clark]]
CBS News Correspondent Michele Clark, the first Black woman to achieve that notable journalistic role, was killed in a plane crash in 1972.

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