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Negro Year Book
Monroe Nathan Work marries Florence Evelyn Hendrickson. Greatly assisted by his wife, Work will publish The Negro Year Book, and annual encyclopedia of African American achievement. He will later publish A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and American (1928) with over 17,000 entries. Reviewers
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27
1904
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Namibia
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Cameroon: COVID-19 - Unions Oppose Plan to Reopen Schools
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Trotter, William Monroe (1872-1934)
WilliamMonroe Trotter was a major early twentieth century civil rights activist knownprimarily for launching the first major challenge to the political dominance ofTuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and as an inspiration for the formation of theNational Association for the Advancement
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1934
Accra, Ghana (ca. 1500- )
Accra is the political and economic capital of modern Ghana on the Gold Coast. Between 1500 and 1578, a fortress operated by the Portuguese stood at the site of modern Accra. This fort provided the Europeans with an outlet for trade, particularly in slaves, with the Ga people, themselves recent
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Benin
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Camara Laye
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Soul food
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Sameer Africa in the red as losses double
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The Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935–1936)
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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”
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Wilson to become the official game ball of the NBA | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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Djibouti City, Republic of Djibouti (1888- )
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1977
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Apr
27
1960
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) (1990- )
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1787
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