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Chad's military responsible for deaths of 2022 protests detainees | Africanews

Chad's military was responsible for the deaths of several detainees arrested following protests in October 2022, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

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Modern Tunisians are the descendants of indigenous Berbers and of people from numerous civilizations that have invaded, migrated to, and been assimilated into the population over the millennia. Recorded history in Tunisia begins with the arrival of Phoenicians, who founded Carthage and other North

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NAACP report said 1946 was one of the grimmest years in the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The report deplored reports of blow torch killing and eye-gouging of Negro veterans freshly returned from a war to end torture and racial extermination and said

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The largest island of the West Indies group (equal in area to Pennsylvania), Cuba is also the westernmost—just west of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 90 mi (145 km) south of Key West, Fla., at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. The island is mountainous in the southeast and

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William Monroe Trotter's Equal Rights League

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(1843) Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address To The Slaves Of The United States"

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Rustin, Bayard (1910-1987)

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(1966) Robert F. Kennedy, “Day of Affirmation Address"

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McKinney, Louise Jones (1930–2012)

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LeMelle, Wilbert J., Sr. (1931-2003)

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King, Betty Eileen (1957– )

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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”

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