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To be more precise, Rufus Estes was America’s first black chef with a cookbook.
I thought it would be fitting to highlight some of the historical aspects of this holiday weekend. Memorial day of course is a time to remember those that died for this country(I will feature one or two of those brave people over [...]

All those hours that 13-year-old Nathan Cornelius spent scouring atlases and immersing himself in the National Geographic magazine paid off Wednesday — with a $25,000 check.
The home-schooled Minnesota seventh-grader won the magazine’s 17th annual geography bee with a dazzling display of knowledge about cities, countries, cultures and waterways around the globe.
And in beating out 5 [...]