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« Mad Max : Fury Road » : dans les coulisses des films frénétiques de George Miller - Haiti24
Mad Max : Fury Road est un film frénétique, bouillonnant, presque enragé. Normal, il compte pas moins de 2 700 plans en à peine deux heures qui s’enchaînent à toute allure. Pour le nouvel opus de la saga, Furiosa projeté au Festival de Cannes, c’est exactement la même idée. Car cette vitesse est
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En direct, guerre en Ukraine : l’ancien blogueur russe proguerre Igor Guirkine déclare sa candidature à l’élection présidentielle russe de 2024 - Haiti24
Image de couverture : Des soldats ukrainiens se reposent dans une tranchée à Bakhmout, le 18 novembre 2023. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP La Russie a lancé plusieurs attaques contre Kiev, tôt dimanche 19 novembre, pour la deuxième nuit d’affilée, a déclaré l’administration militaire de la capitale
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Jackson, Jesse Louis. Jr. (1965- )
Jesse Jackson, Jr., an African American Congressman, represented Illinois’ Second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from December 12, 1995 to November 21, 2012. On March 11, 1965, in Greenville, South Carolina, in the middle of the voting rights campaign, Jesse
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Nicki Minaj Made Soulja Boy Apologize To J. Cole After Explosive Rant
The content originally appeared on: Urban Islandz Queens rapper Nicki Minaj has mended fences with rapper Soulja Boy and also defended J. Cole after the SODMG rapper insulted the “Middle Child” rapper following an interview with Lil Yachty. According to Minaj, Soulja Boy misinterpreted
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Latino gang vigilantes targeting Blacks in neighborhoods | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Following days of massive peaceful protest throughout the city that ended with nights of looting and hundreds of arrests leaving many businesses boarded up and hollowed out, residents in Chicago’s largely Hispanic neighborhoods such as Back of the Yards, some gang members, have taken to the streets
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Homestyle Holiday Hosting Tips | Chicago Defender
(NewsUSA) - There’s something about hosting family and friends for the holidays — it creates space for joy and togetherness, laying the foundation for new memories and stories for a lifetime to come. However, all hosts know — putting together the perfect holiday does not come without the stress of
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Dawson, William Levi (1886-1970)
WilliamLevi Dawson was a well-known Chicago, Illinois lawyer who became one of the city’s most influentialpoliticians.  His career paralleled the risingsignificance of African Americans in the Democratic Party.  Dawson was born in Albany, Georgia on April 26,1886.  Little is known of his formative
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Revels, Hiram Rhoades (1827?–1901)
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Matthew Jefferson was the first Black to serve on the Newton Board of Aldermen. He repeatedly won election to the board in nine city-wide election campaigns after being chosen to join the board in 1968. In all he served as alderman for 20 years, six of those years as president.
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Committee passes resolution supporting Gov. Evers’ policing accountability and transparency reforms
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Stakeholders to discuss corruption measurement, impact at #CoSP10
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(1898) Rev. Charles S. Morris Describes The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
Long termed a “race riot,” the turmoil that enveloped Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898 is now called an armed insurrection. White supremacists drove from power all of the black and white elected officials of this predominately African American city in what was believed to
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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)
A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871.  In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator.  DePriest created his own
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Crowds Tear Down Statues, Attack Wisconsin State Senator
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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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Franks, Gary (1953- )
When Gary Franks was elected to Congress in 1990, he was the first black representative from Connecticut and the first black Republican in Congress in nearly 50 years. Son of a brass factory worker and a dietary specialist, education was a high priority in Franks’s Waterbury family. In fact, Gary
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Ralph Metcalfe, was an outstanding U.S. sprinter, track coach, and politican born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During Metcalfe’s years as a student at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1932 through 1934, he was arguably the world’s fastest human. His strong
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Council passes resolution seeking Juneteenth Day become a federal holiday
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Le président de la République Emmanuel Macron, le 15 novembre lors d’une rencontre avec la communauté française, à Berne, en Suisse. POOL / VIA REUTERS Emmanuel Macron a dénoncé mercredi 15 novembre à Berne « la faute politique majeure » des chefs de parti des Républicains (LR) et du Parti
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