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(Partner Content) EU citizens who intend to stay in the UK after Brexit have to take note of some very important points and deadlines.
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Black Protesters Who Want To Demonstrate Peacefully Are Calling Out White People Who Instigate Violence
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Black Students Storm Social Media To Expose Racial Injustice at Private Schools - The New York Beacon
By Victor Omondi In a bid to expose blatant racism that’s going on in schools, Black alumni and current students have flooded social media to share their personal experiences with racism on campus, demanding change in these institutions. The majority of these groups have created
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Tech And Policing Amidst Pandemic And Protests - Blavity
Now, many Americans are experiencing, for the first time, a reality that Black people in this country have been living with since 1619: white supremacist terrorism supported by
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New 50p coin celebrating Britain's diversity unveiled - Voice Online
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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads | Afro
The National Congress had not said anything about the Teich resignation, but the former minister of education during the Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva government and left-wing candidate for president of Brazil in 2018, Fernando Haddad, published a tweet saying: “Who will be the next Health
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Immigration Corner | After 35 years, where can I turn?
Dear Mr Bassie, I am living in the United Kingdom (UK) with my parents without any papers since 1985. Is there anything that can be done to regularise my status as I am desperately in need of help, and I do not know where to turn. – C.C. Dear C.C...
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Rice, Susan Elizabeth (1964- )
Susan Rice is the current National Security Advisor for the Barack Obama Administration.  She is the first African American, the third woman, and the second youngest person to hold the position.  Prior to being selected by President Obama for the post, Rice served as a key foreign policy advisor
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17
1964
Harmon should clamour for constitutional reform - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, I refer to Stabroek News’ article dated 8/11/2020, `Nothing less than Walrond’s resignation acceptable – Harmon’. The article Harmon should clamour for constitutional reform appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Boateng, Paul Yaw (1951- )
Born to a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother in Hackney, London, Paul Yaw Boateng became one of the first black British Members of Parliament in the general election of 1987. In 2002 he became the first Afro-Briton to serve in the Prime Ministers Cabinet.  The family moved to Ghana when Boateng
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Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes is an American rapper and actor. His birth name is Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. He was born on May 20, 1972 to Geraldine Green and Trevor Smith, who were Jamaican immigrants. He moved to Long Island at the age of 12, where he attended Uniondale High School. After graduating from high
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1972
UK gives US$3.8m for COVID-19 response in Caribbean
THE United Kingdom has agreed to contribute three million pounds (US$3.8m) to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help eight countries of the Caribbean – Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines – contain the spread of
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Why vaccine nationalism should concern the Caribbean - Stabroek News
How well prepared is the Caribbean to respond to the politically led emergence of ‘vaccine nationalism’, an approach likely to see countries with advanced bio-pharma facilities initially restrict the availability of a COVID-19
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Nigeria coronavirus: 24,567 cases, eased lockdown phase II extended
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Americas war on Huawei begins to turn - TechCentral
Huawei Technologies has gone from a crucial component of UK and French mobile networks to potential outcast, after resistance and compromises began to give way to a relentless White House campaign.
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No health minister in Brazil as coronavirus infection spreads
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A Level Results Day: 'An entire generation of black students stand to be disenfranchised by the system' - Voice Online
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A disaster for Britain
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The General Virginia Court decides the "Emmanuel" case, which involves a black
The General Virginia Court decides the Emmanuel case, which involves a black man who, along with sixwhite servants participates in a conspiracy to escape;when captured, the whites are all sentenced to extrayears of service while Emmanuel is whipped, brandedwith an R, and required to wear shackles
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet and author born on June 27, 1872. His parents had been slaves during the American Civil War but had been freed by the time of his birth. Dunbar was born in Ohio, and his parents separated shortly after his birth. Dunbar began writing poetry as early
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1906
Shahine was a decent, diligent servant of the people, says Phillips
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Africa: In Era of COVID-19, Russia's Strategic Politics of Coronavirus Aid Takes the Stage in Africa
While Russia, for a time, appeared to escape a serious coronavirus outbreak, the situation there has changed drastically during these two months of April and May, - passing Germany and France to become the third most-infected country in the world, according to The Moscow
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Liberia
Liberia /l aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə/  (  listen), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of 111,369 square kilometers (43,000 sq mi) and has a population of
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Eleven People Arrested After Sit-In
Seven whites and four Blacks arrested after all-night sit-in at Englewood, N.J., city hall. Four Black mothers arrested after sit-in at Chicago elementary school. Mothers later received suspended $50 fines. Protests, picketing and demonstrations continued for several weeks against de facto
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Boris Johnson says people shouldn’t be ‘bullied’ into kneeling for Black Lives Matter
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Abbott, Diane (1953- )
Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the British Parliament, was born to Jamaican immigrant parents in 1953. Growing up in Paddington, London, she attended Harrow County grammar school before pursuing studies in History to Master’s level at Newnham
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Apartheid
Apartheid (South African English pronunciation: /ə ˈ p ɑːr t eɪ d/; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦəit]) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991.[1] Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into petty apartheid, which entailed the
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Racial discrimination
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