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The local NAACP president hopes students visit, and learn.

The local NAACP president hopes students visit, and learn.   The exhibit has new information on the key role abolitionist Joseph Carpenter played in the Underground Railroad, and looks at New Rochelle's history of thriving Black neighborhoods, some of them bulldozed in the name of progress. The exhibit takes a deep dive into the pivotal role Black New Rochelle families played in desegregating schools in the Northeast. The 1961 Taylor case helped end the gerrymandering of school zones to prevent integration, inspiring Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis and other prominent African-Americans to relocate to New Rochelle. "Our history is more than slavery.  Our history is a vast and beautiful and honorable history," said Minister Mark McLean of the New Rochelle NAACP. "We celebrate the best of our ancestors and the best of us."
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  Academy LL Cool J, who walked the carpet with wife Simone Smith and daughter Samaria Smith, is set to present the Global Impact Award to "a very special artist" during the GRAMMYs telecast before introducing the the Hip-Hop 50 tribute performance honoring five decades of hip-hop, curated by Questlove.  "I think it's about all generations. I think it's multigenerational. We're talking about a whole 50 years, we're not saying 50 years but we stopped 20 years ago. It's for everybody," LL Cool J said of the star-studded segment, featuring performances by Ice-T, Missy Elliott, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Method Man, Nelly and many more. "I think that this will be a way for people of all generations to  kind of bond -- mom, dad, grandma, grandkids, everybody will be able to learn about hip-hop tonight. Introduce you to some new people, maybe some people you know the songs but don't know the artist. Maybe you know the artist bu...
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