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Villagers reaching towards an engine at an auto mechanics skills training center, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1990.

Flavor Flav, standing with rapper Tupac Shakur, greets fans backstage during the 1989 American Music Awards, Los Angeles, California, January 30, 1989.

Music producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, wearing tophat and sunglasses, posing during the 1988 ACE awards for cable television, Los Angeles, California, January 20, 1988.

Portrait of Shanice Wilson at age 14 following her win on Star Search and Can You Dance during the 1988 ACE awards for cable television, Los Angeles, California, January 20, 1988.

Gospel music superstar Vicki Winans singing on stage during a performance of the play Dont Get God Started, San Francisco, California, 1987.

Terrence Trent D'Arby and members of The Bangles female pop rock group posing on stage, San Francisco, California, 1987.

Protesters wearing Civil Disobedience t shirts marching and holding a wrinkled caricature of United States President Ronald Reagan in a street, San Francisco, California, 1985. Sign reads Rob the Poor, and the Rich.

African-American school children and a teacher in a classroom, San Francisco, California, 1980.

African-American schoolgirls and a teacher in a classroom, San Francisco, California, 1980.