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Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West
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Marcus Garvey, "The Negro Moses"
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8 Network Television Shows Starring Black Women
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President Lincoln received first group of Blacks
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.
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How Kenya ended up immortalising Jomo’s buddies
In the case of two other friends with origins in the State of Guyana, Ras Makonnen and Cecil Miller, President Jomo Kenyatta gave them Kenyan citizenship, jobs and facilitated their permanent settlement in the country, where he wanted them laid to rest when the time finally
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Kingston, Jamaica (1692-- )
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We can’t breathe: Chamisa
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Pelosi Trolls Trump Saying Rally Could Have Been A Zoom Meeting Based On Crowd Size
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Towards the great African promise
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Trump to finish drug regimen 'in day or 2'
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African-American newspapers
African-American newspapers are newspapers in the United States that cater to primarily African-American audiences. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedoms Journal in 1827. During the antebellum South, other African-American newspapers
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ULIMWENGU: Two books come to bite Trump when only polls matter
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