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Harriet Tubman Biography: Later Years
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10
1913
Egypt
Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the
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Remote working set to stay post pandemic
An explosion in remote working owing to the coronavirus pandemic could see companies slash office space, saving them money but not necessarily improving productivity among staff, according to
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EcoCash limits ridiculously low in comparison to similar markets
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been on a war path against EcoCash, one of Africa’s successful mobile money
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DBJ assists micro and small enterprises with digital transformation
THE range of business services utilised by micro and small enterprises (MSEs), which is financed under the Development Bank of Jamaica's (DBJ) Voucher for Technical Assistance Programme (VTAP), is being widened to incorporate digital
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated de jure racial
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'Train Up a Child': North Carolina Father Goes Viral for Teaching 8-Year-Old Son Financial Literacy
Twenty-eight-year-old Kyren Gibson and his 8-year-old son, Kyng, have recently taken the internet by storm, thanks to a video in which Kyng flawlessly recites the definitions of financial terms that many often struggle to grasp even into
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Cooper, J. Gary (1936– )
J. Gary Cooper, military, government, and business leader, was appointed United States Ambassador to Jamaica by President Bill Clinton in 1994. He was the first African American to occupy the position. Prior to his appointment, he had a distinguished military
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2
1936
Turbulence, warning before Pakistan plane crash killed 97
Moments later, the Pakistan International Airlines flight crashed into a crowded neighbourhood near Karachi's international airport, killing 97 people, all of whom are believed to be passengers and crew
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The People's Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by former African Amer
The Peoples Savings Bank is incorporated in Philadelphia by former African American congressman George H. White of North Carolina. The bank will help hundreds of African Americans buy homes and start businesses until the illness of its founder forces its closure in 1918.
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Systemic racism exist even during a pandemic
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State agencies fight over maize imports
At the centre of the high-stakes game is the speed with which National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani moved to disband the Strategic Food Reserve Trust Fund (SFRTF) without reference to the National
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An American Family's Multigenerational Rise from Slavery to Harvard University
In the account below, attorney and historian James H. Johnston describessix generations of descendants of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim slave made famous by Charles Willson Peales 1819 painting of him in Georgetown in the District of Columbia.  Johnstons discussion of the evolution of hisbook, From Slave
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Malawi: State Drops Charges Against 4 Suspected Reserve Bank of Malawi Fraud
The State has dropped criminal charges against four central bankers suspected to have connived with former Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) manager, Charles Ezra July Mchakulu and three others, to steal K340 million from the central
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Mali
In March 2012, President Touré was overthrown in a coup by mutineering soldiers who said they were acting in response to the governments response to the rebellion by the Tuaregs, nomadic insurgents of Berber and Arab descent who live in the north. The troops said they did not received adequate
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China's cryptocurrency is all about tracing - and power
An official Chinese digital yuan, more than five years in the making, is now in pilot runs to slowly start replacing the physical legal
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Fed Powell says new lending programs to launch by June 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Fed lending programs for medium-sized businesses and state and local governments would begin operating by the end of this
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Cuba
On April 19, 2011, Cuba made the most significant change to its leadership in over 50 years, by appointing José Ramón Machado to fill the second-highest position in the Communist Party. It was the first time since the 1959 revolution that someone other than the Castro brothers has been named to the
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2011
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Boston Bank of Commerce
Incorporated on June 30, 1982, with Juan M. Cofield as its leading founder and president from 1982-1983, Boston Bank of Commerce is the only fully insured Black-owned and operated bank in Boston and New England. A successor to Unity Bank and Trust, Boston's first Black-owned Bank, the Boston Bank
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African-American Businesswomen in the Jim Crow Era
Entrepreneur and social activist Maggie Lena Walkers famous quote is I am of the opinion [that] if we can catch the vision, in a few years we shall be able to enjoy the fruits from this effort and its attendant responsibilities, through untold benefits reaped by the youth of the
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Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first
Capital Savings Bank of Washigton, D.C., the first Black bank, opened in Washington, D.C. The Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers (Richmond, Va.) was chartered on March 2, 1888.
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1888
Triston scandal: welcome home, Yagnesh Devani
Devani, a man with a deceitful persona, was in a class of his own and when he pulled the Triton scam, he not only left the country reeling with an oil shortage but left so many unanswered
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Rwanda: Mobile Money Transactions Grow By 450% in 3 Months
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Nigeria: Why Nigeria's Efforts to Support Poor People Fail, and What Can Be Done About It
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Eureka Co-Operative Bank
David E. Crawford opened Eureka Co-Operative Bank in Boston in 1910, 'the only bank in the East owned and operated by ‘Colored People.'' He was appointed a master in the Chancery by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1915, and in 1916 the citizens of Boston elected him as a delegate to the National
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Donald C. Johanson
Donald C. Johanson , in full Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American paleoanthropologist best known for his discovery of “ Lucy,” one of the most complete skeletons of Australopithecus afarensis known, in the Afar region of Ethiopia in
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Spike Lee
The son of the jazz composer Bill Lee, he was reared in a middle-class Brooklyn neighbourhood. He majored in communications at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, where he directed his first Super-8 films and met his future coproducer, Monty Ross. In 1978 Lee entered New York University’s Graduate Film
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