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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19 | Afro

Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA

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Don Siegel

Siegel studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After a brief stint as an actor, he joined Warner Brothers studios near Hollywood as an assistant film librarian. He later worked as an editor before joining the studio’s montage department, where he

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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

In July 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered a major speech at the White House in defense of Affirmative Action programs across the nation at a time when many critics were calling for their repeal. He argued that such programs were still needed in a talk he officially titled, The Job of Ending

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Facebook to pay $52M to employees with PTSD from moderating rape, murder and suicide videos

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South Africa: With Enough Support, People Can Grow Their Own Food

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the

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Uganda: Government Should Rescue People From Poverty

Therefore, the question is: What will stimulate demand and eventually boost peoples' decreasing

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Archibald Alphonso Alexander

Born: 5/14/1888 Ottumwa, IowaDied: 1/4/1958 Des Moines, IowaArchie Alphonso Alexander was an African-American mathematician and engineer. He was an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa and the first to graduate from the University of Iowas College of EngineeringBusiness

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Black Woman Dies From COVID-19 Two Weeks After a Man Coughed and Spit on Her

London — Belly Mujinga, a 47-year old Black woman who was working as a railway ticket officer in London, has died from coronavirus after a man who claimed to be infected reportedly coughed and spit on

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All the Black & Brown Virtual Graduation Ceremonies To Check Out So You Don’t Feel Left Out

2 Event: iHeartMedia “Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020” When: May 15 If ceremonies aren’t your thing and you’d likely be forced to walk across the stage by your family, podcasts might be more your vibe. 3 Event: “Show Me Your Walk HBCU Edition” When: May 16 Dreamt of Barack O

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Odumegwu Ojukwu

Odumegwu Ojukwu , in full Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (born November 4, 1933, Zungeru, Nigeria—died November 26, 2011, London, England), Nigerian military leader and politician, who was head of the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian civil

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Hanno of Carthage and West Africa

Hanno of Carthage (c 5th century B.C.) left a bronze plaque in a temple to Baal as testimony to his voyage down the west coast of Africa to the land of the gorilla people. His bronze 18-line travelogue, or Periplus, was translated into Greek, and then copied over many times by Greek

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First Female Federal Magistrate

Joyce London Alexander became the first Black woman in the country appointed as a federal magistrate in Boston when she was named to that post by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

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Sowande, Olufela (Fela) Obafunmilayo (1905-1987)

Musician, composer, professor, and conductor Fela Sowande was born May 1905 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He was the son of Emmanuel Sowande, who was an Anglican priest and influential in the development of Nigerian sacred music. Fela Sowande was a musician and composer of music in the classical

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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund

The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and

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Top 10 Famous African American Scientists and their Contributions

We live in the twenty-first century with modern comforts to help make our lives simpler and easier. It wouldn’t have been possible without the unrelenting efforts of numerous scientists and their useful inventions. America is one of the major hubs of new scientific discoveries and behind those are

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Obama criticises leaders over Covid-19 response

Former US President Barack Obama on Saturday criticised the response to the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging America, in what was widely regarded as a rare public rebuke of his successor Donald

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Africa: Under COVID-19 Lockdowns, 32 Million Africans Would Be Severely Food Deprived

After an eight-week lockdown, 168 million people would no longer afford the amount of food they were consuming pre-COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa, indicates new International Growth Centre

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Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr.

Ronald G. Forsythe, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Quality Health Strategies and previously served as its Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Forsythe served as Chief Information Officer and Vice President at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he led projects that

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Mercer, Mabel Alice Wadham (1900-1984)

Mabel Mercer was one of the most important jazz cabaret singers of the 20th Century. Her personal singing style emphasizing interpretation, diction, lyrics, and projection over vocal proficiency influenced numerous leading singers including Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Nat

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F.W. de Klerk

F.W. de Klerk , in full Frederik Willem de Klerk (born March 18, 1936, Johannesburg, S.Af.), politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela

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NY National Guardsman Henry Johnson, Fought For His Life With A Knife On May 15, 1918

And on the night of May 15, 1918, Pvt. Henry Johnson, a member of the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment, found himself fighting for his life against 20 German Soldiers out in front of his

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Zambia

On Oct. 28, 2014, President Sata died while being treated in London for an undisclosed illness. Rumors about him being seriously ill had been going on for weeks, especially after he missed a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Vice President Guy Scott became acting president until an

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(1914) John Edward Bruce, “Sons of Africa”

In 1913, 57-year-old John Edward Bruce, one of the leading black nationalist figures in the United States, founded the Loyal Order of the Sons of Africa with the goal of freeing the African continent from colonialism and unifying its people. In the speech below, given at an undisclosed

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Greece and Egypt: How a Single Coin Reflects an Ancient and Enduring Relationship

A tiny object can rewrite history. In this case, the small electrum coin featuring the head of an African pictured here reveals a fascinating link between Africa and Greece from antiquity to the present. Unfortunately we know very little about the coin itself except that it is from the early

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Introduction to Jazz Music: A Brief History

Born in America, jazz can be seen as a reflection of the cultural diversity and individualism of this country. At its core are an openness to all influences, and personal expression through improvisation. Throughout its history, jazz has straddled the worlds of popular music and art music, and it

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First inauguration of Barack Obama

The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President and Joe

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(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and

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Zimbabwe: Police Brutality Victims to Sue Matanga, Ministers

The duo of Sethukani Ncube and Weston Chadomba of Bulawayo, as well as Gweru based Trymore Mhari, suffered a dislocated shoulder, hearing problems as well as broken arm after being severely assaulted by police officers and soldiers enforcing the nationwide lockdown

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(1900) W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World,”

W.E.B. Dubois would eventually emerge as a founder of the NAACP, a leading human rights activists and the most important African American intellectual of the 20th Century. However those developments lay in the future when the 32-year-old DuBois gave the closing address at the first Pan African

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