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Save the Date: June 24, 2023 at 1:00pm Women of Watts and Beyond are celebrating Ms. Lydia Friend's 20th Anniversary of being the Founder of Women of Watts and Beyond. The theme of this event is: Praying Women on the Frontline Please share with vendors you know and share on your pages in the event that there are other vendors that would like the opportunity. Thank you! Let's GoDaWork!!! Photo Credit: Shared by Lydia Friend

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Why are African Americans more at risk for COVID-19?

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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

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(2015) President Barack Obama's Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney

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Theodore H. Bunting, Jr.

Theodore H. Bunting, Jr. served as the Group President, Utility Operations of Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, from June 2012 until his retirement in

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(1837) William Whipper, “Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression”

? Few Americans are aware of the deep roots of peace activism in the African American community. Benjamin Banneker, the 18th Century mathematician and astronomer, recommended that a “Secretary of Peace” be added to the President’s cabinet whose chief function would be to craft measu

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P. W. Botha , in full Pieter Willem Botha (born Jan. 12, 1916, Paul Roux, S.Af.—died Oct. 31, 2006, Wilderness, near George), prime minister (1978–84) and first state president (1984–89) of South

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South Africa: Local Networks Can Help People in Distress - South Africa's COVID-19 Response Needs Them

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Africa: COVID-19 - Developing Countries Must Not Be Left Behind

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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi

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(1838) Sara T. Smith, “Loosening the Bonds of Prejudice”

On May 17, 1838, abolitionist Sara T. Smith addresses the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women which was originally scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania Hall. The meeting however was moved when anti-abolitionist mobs, upon learning of the Convention, burned the hall to the ground. The

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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

In the following article historians Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz discuss their new book, The Harlem Renaissance in the American West which argues that the literary and artistic outpouring by African Americans during the third decade of the 20th Century was a national phenomenon which included the

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CO2 emissions to drop in 2020

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline -- the sharpest since WWII -- would barely dent long-term global warming, researchers reported

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O’Leary, Hazel Rollins Reid (1937- )

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Zimbabwe: Rights Movement Speaks On Buyanga Child Custody Drama

Fathers' Rights Movement Zimbabwe (FRMZ) believes Frank Buyanga's child custody case has demonstrated that fathers' rights are disregarded in

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Kenya: Give Us Your Farm Throw-Aways; We'll Give Back Black Gold

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Carl Lewis is a retired American track and field athlete who is famous for his exceptional Olympic record. Lewis is also the current indoor long jump world record holder; a record which he has held since

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Roudanez, Louis Charles (1823-1890)

Physician and newspaper publisher, Louis Charles Roudanez was born free in June of 1823 in Saint James Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of a French merchant named Louis Roudanez and a black woman named Aimée Potens. Though his baptismal record registers him as white, Roudanez identified as

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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

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(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"

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