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Benin and Ivory Coast become the third and fourth countries to withdraw their declaration under Article 34 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Gentrification, Integration or Displacement?: The Seattle Story
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Joy, tears in Darfur as International Criminal Court arrests wanted war crimes suspect
Kushayb, a senior Janjaweed commander in the early years of the conflict, was the target of a 2007 ICC arrest warrant on multiple counts including rape, murder and
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Activists Are Pushing For Consumers To Support Black Businesses. Is It Sustainable?
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Two suspects held over murder of construction worker Body at Tarla Dam
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Moruca man is 11th COVID-19 fatality
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Several lose home after fire guts Prashad Nagar building
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(2013) Ben Carson's Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast
On February 7, 2013 prominent neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson became a nationally recognized political figure when he gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. that was critical of President Obamas policies and particularly Obamacare when the President and First Lady Michelle
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An investigation by the Guyana Fire Service has found that the fire which destroyed the Barrack Street, Kingston home of 81-year-old Dhaniram Harcharan was electrical in
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Friendship coconut vendor dies after fall from tree
A 49-year-old coconut vendor died on Sunday after falling from a coconut tree at Friendship, on the East Coast of Demerara
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Drinking buddies charged with murdering construction worker
Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of construction worker Andy Williams, whose partially decomposed body was discovered floating in a trench at Met-en-meerzorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) two weeks
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Latest US monuments toppled: Grant, national anthem writer | The Atlanta Voice
Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America’s national anthem and the general who won the country’s Civil War which ended widespread
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Rwanda: What Next After Arrest of Genocide Fugitive Kabuga?
Felicien Kabuga, one of the leading suspected architects of the Genocide against the Tutsi was arrested Saturday in a Paris suburb after nearly 26 years on the run, the International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
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The Notorious B.I.G.
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Lowenfield says he has `executed his constitutional duties'
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The Baptist War (1831-1832)
The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an eleven-day rebellion that mobilized as many as sixty thousand of Jamaica’s three hundred thousand slaves in 1831–1832. It was considered the largest slave rebellion in the British Caribbean. The name Christmas Rebellion came from the
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GCAA issues temporary ban on flying drones over G’town
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CAT Recognizes Poetry In Motion Winners
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Morehouse cancels fall sports as HBCUs grapple with rapid changes
The news on Morehouse sports came at the same time the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), one of the NCAA’s two Division I conferences composed of all HBCUs, was explaining on a virtual news conference how it would survive a fourth program leaving in three years, with
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East Point citizens join together for protest and march against police violence
East Point, Georgia, June 10, 2020 … The citizens of East Point are joining together to shine a light on the recent events involving unarmed black men and women dying at the hands of police and vigilante citizens, including but not limited to, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Manuel
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Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohio (1824 - )
Early 19th Century African American Methodists in Cincinnati, Ohio initially worshipped at the local Methodist Episcopal churches, but were treated in a discriminatory manner. In response to this treatment Rev. James King and Rev. Phillip Brodie, after contacting leaders of the new AME Church
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Georgetown, Guyana (1781- )
Georgetown, with a 2014 population of 239,227, is the capital, major port, and largest city of the nation of Guyana.  Since the entire nation has 769,000 people, about one third of the country’s population resides in the capital city. Georgetown sits on a flat coastal plain prone to flooding. It is
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Guyanese cricketers stranded in TT expected to return
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US hopes for speedy, credible end to recount - Pompeo
We look forward to a quick and credible conclusion to the vote recount in Guyana”, Pompeo said during his opening statement at a news conference at the State Department on the Release of the 2019 International Religious Freedom Report where he was joined by Sam Brownback, the Ambassador at Large
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Trio on bail after 200-lb ganja bust
Three men, who were allegedly busted with over 200 pounds of cannabis in vicinity of Sandaka, Canje River, where yesterday released on $350, 000 bail each after they were charged with possession of the illegal substance for
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Mercy Hospital unveils $20m COVID-19 testing, treatment facility
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Guyana's gov't blasts Bruce Golding's statement on election process | New York Carib News
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