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Musician Patience Namadingo has questioned procedures used in collecting royalties from radio stations and telecommunications companies on behalf of musicians and he has vowed to take Copyright Society of Malawi (COSOMA) to task. According to Namadingo, he has already engaged auditors and lawyers
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Lupita Nyong’o
Lupita Nyongo was the surprise winner of an Oscar for her supporting role in her feature film debut, Steven McQueens drama 12 Years a Slave. The daughter of a Kenyan politician, Lupita Nyongo was born in Mexico City and raised in Kenya. She studied film and theater at Hampshire College in
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Lionel Richie
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Beginning in 1968, he was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores and then launched a solo career in 1982. He also co-wrote the 1985 charity single We Are the World with Michael
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20
1949
With Trump Hatred Moving Off Stage, Biden Administration Seeks Its Footing - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… mobs most conspicuously composed of African-American militants ransacked many of America … champions of the rights of African-Americans. The whole concept of “systemic …
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Detroit Pistons To Celebrate LGBTQ Community With Pride Week
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Here's What You Need To Know About Critical Race Theory | The Atlanta Voice
The term “critical race theory” has been in the news a lot lately. If you’re confused about what it means – or too afraid to ask at this point – here’s what you need to know. What is critical race theory? Very simply, critical race theory is the idea that racism is built into American institutions
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Cecilia Carter
Cecilia Carter is a Senior Corporate Executive with a successful career in corporate marketing, communications and community affairs. As Vice President of Global Diversity, Community & Civic Affairs for Starbucks, she is responsible for the strategy and management of the diversity, community
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Why A History Professor Says 'Racist' Emancipation Memorial Shouldn't Come Down
Protesters want to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Yale history professor David Blight about why he thinks the memorial should stay
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Africa: Coronavirus "Information Heroes" - Journalism That Saves Lives
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Federal Workers Will Get Friday Off To Observe Juneteenth
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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”
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Wiz Khalifa Receives Backlash After Tweet Suggests He’s Done Wearing Masks During COVID-19
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington , in full Booker Taliaferro Washington (born April 5, 1856, Franklin county, Virginia, U.S.—died November 14, 1915, Tuskegee, Alabama.), educator and reformer, first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), and
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Phillip R. Cox
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Ntozke Shange is born
Born Paulette Williams, she graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozke” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning
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Wright, Theodore Sedgwick (ca. 1797-1847)
Theodore Sedgwick Wright, prominent clergyman, antislavery leader, and reformer was thought to have been born in New Jersey in 1797.  He attended the New York African Free School. With the help of New York Governor Dewitt Clinton, Arthur Tappan and others from Princeton Theological Seminary, he
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(1874) John Mercer Langston, “Equality Before the Law”
John Mercer Langston, a prominent abolitionist and civil rights activist, was one of the earliest African American officeholders in the United States when in 1855 he was elected town clerk of Brownhelm, Township, Ohio.  During the Civil War he recruited soldiers for the Massachusetts 54th Infantry
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Expat creates arts collective in Beijing - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
“The first step is for them to take their knees off us. Because we are kneeling to stand” — as Alexandra Smith finished reciting the concluding lines of her poem, the silence in the room erupted into
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Uganda: Makerere COVID-19 Ventilators Pass Test
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Edward A. Bouchet
Edward A. Bouchet received the Ph.D. degree in physics at Yale University and became the first Black to receive a doctorate at an American University.
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Pan-Africanism
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1920
2nd major snowstorm in a week blankets US north-east
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Protect Monuments
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Bouchet, Edward Alexander (1852-1918)
Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852 in New Haven, Connecticut to William Francis and Susan Cooley Bouchet. Edward attended the segregated primary school in New Haven and later finished his secondary education at Hopkins Grammar School in 1870. An outstanding
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KIEREINI: As fury rages over US police, let’s also look in the
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Can migration of labour spur Kenya’s economic rebound?
In a report by the World Bank on the policy options of Kenya during the pandemic, there have been visible disruptions in trade and key sources of foreign exchange, which is expected to heavily weigh on remittances and foreign direct
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Dobbs, Mattiwilda (1925- )
Mattiwilda Dobbs, an accomplished opera star, was born July 11, 1925 in Atlanta, Georgia. Although she was the fifth of six daughters and her father worked as a mail clerk, he was able to provide her and all of her sisters with a college education.  Dobbs began singing and playing the piano as
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Bridgewater, Pamela E. (1947- )
Pamela E. Bridgewater is a career Foreign Service officer who has been recognized for important diplomatic work in South Africa, Ghana, and Liberia.  Her most recent posting was as U.S. Ambassador to
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Angola
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