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Accept Yourself For Who You Are; Accept Others For Who They Are Too

“Uhambo” (or the Chariot) meaning “the journey” or “traveling forward” in the Xhosa language serves as a wake up call to zoom past our fears and worries, trusting that we are not only divinely…

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Fields, Cleo (1962- )

Cleo Fields, politician, lawyer, and United States Representative from Louisianas Fourth Congressional District (1993-97), was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on November 22, 1962. At four years old, Fields lost his father, Isidore Fields, a dockworker, in a car crash. His mother, Alice

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Dwayne Johnson Decides to Black Adam over Shazam

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has finally confirmed his decision to play antihero, Black Adam, in the upcoming adaptation film of the DC

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Innis, Roy (Roy Emile Alfredo Innis), 1934–, American civil-rights leader, b. St. Croix, Virgin Islands. A member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) since 1963, he has been its national director (1968–82) and has served as national chairman since 1970. In the late 1960s he traded the

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Ngugi wa Thiong’o , original name James Thiong’o Ngugi (born January 5, 1938, Limuru, Kenya), East Africa’s leading novelist, whose popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, he adopted

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Harriet Tubman - Leading Slaves into Freedom

Harriet Tubman, born in 1820, was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the Moses of her people. Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay

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The capital of Senegal, Dakar, is the westernmost point in Africa. The country, slightly smaller than South Dakota, surrounds Gambia on three sides and is bordered on the north by Mauritania, on the east by Mali, and on the south by Guinea and

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Uganda Registers 248 COVID-19 Cases

The health ministry on Monday confirmed twenty one new COVID-19 cases bringing the total of cases in Uganda to

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Name at birth: Colin Luther Powell

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Barrow, Dean Oliver (1951- )

On February 7, 2008, Belize elected Dean Barrow as its first black Prime Minister. Born March 2, 1951, in Belize City, Barrow earned his LL.M. from the University of Miami in the United States and became partner at a Belizean law firm in 1977. Two years later he established his own

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Mauritania became an independent nation on Nov. 28, 1960, and was admitted to the United Nations in 1961 over the strenuous opposition of Morocco, which claimed the territory. In the late 1960s, the government sought to make Arab culture dominant. Racial and ethnic tension between

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Dr. Natasha Sandy Is a Firm Believer in Manifestation So She Guards Her Thoughts Carefully

Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black

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Events Leading to the Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa (1880 to 1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldnt have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going

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Stewart, Bennett McVey (1912–1988)

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, on the 6th of August, 1912, Illinois Congressman Bennett McVey Stewart was the son of Bennett Stewart and Cathleen Jones. He attended local public schools in Huntsville and Birmingham before entering Miles College in Birmingham. There he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree

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Lawrence, Brenda (1954– )

Brenda L. Lawrence is a well-known and high-profile Democratic Party politician from Michigan who currently serves as the U.S. Representative for the state’s Fourteenth Congressional District. Before her election to Congress, Lawrence served as the mayor of Southfield, Michigan, from 2001 to

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Fela Kuti , byname of Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, also called Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (born October 15, 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria—died August 2, 1997, Lagos), Nigerian musician and activist who launched a modern style of music called Afro-beat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with

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(1983) Glenn Loury, “Responsibility and Race”

One of the great myths of our time is the belief in the great melting pot of American ethnicity, into which have been blended the cultures and values of disparate peoples from the world

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Barack Obama's Stirring Iowa Caucus Victory Speech - Full Text January 3, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama delivered this eloquent, soaring speech to thunderous ovation and public accolade after he won the Iowa Democratic caucus on January 3, 2008, which was the first vote in the 2008 presidential primary race. (See Obama Soars to Iowa Victory for more

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U.S. Department of State Background Note

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 "My personal battle from a positive to a negative result"

A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March

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Left of Black with Dave Zirin

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Americo-Liberians

Americo-Liberiansare Liberians of African American descent. They trace their ancestry tofreeborn and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated to Liberiain the 19th

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Ruto allies in Kakamega caution Uhuru

Allies of Deputy President William Ruto in Kakamega County have cautioned President Uhuru Kenyatta "not to be misled" to sideline his Deputy William Ruto and scuttle his presidential bid in

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Whitfield’s Male vs. Man | Afro

Dondre Whitfield, a man with over three decades in the television and film industry, has also made a name for himself as a public speaker and an

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Southern Africa: Zim Hosts SADC Troika Summit On Moza

President Mnangagwa, who chairs the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation, today hosts a one-day Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit of Heads of State and Government with Mozambique joining the meeting in Harare, to discuss the security situation in

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African-American Men and Women of the Progressive Era

Despite the presence of Jim Crow Era laws and politics, African-Americans attempted to reach achieve equality by creating organizations that would help them lobby few anti-lynching legislation and achieve prosperity. Here are several African-American men and women who worked to change life for

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Adams, John Quincy ["J. Q."] (1848-1922)

Educator, newspaper publisher and politician John Quincy Adams is best known as the editor of the Western Appeal/The Appeal of St. Paul, Minnesota. He held the position from 1886 to

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Thompson, Bennie G. (1948- )

Bennie G. Thompson, United States Representative from Mississippis Second Congressional District, is the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and as such is one of the most influential African American members of

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Kwame Nkrumah’s father was a goldsmith and his mother a retail trader. Baptized a Roman Catholic, Nkrumah spent nine years at the Roman Catholic elementary school in nearby Half Assini. After graduation from Achimota College in 1930, he started his career as a teacher at Roman Catholic junior

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Black Women Who Have Run for U.S. President

Black women are among the Democratic Party’s most loyal supporters. As such, they have buoyed everyone from white men to a black man and, now, a white woman to the top of the ticket. Unlike Hillary Clinton, a black woman has yet to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. But that

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