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Margot James Copeland is Executive Vice President – Director, Corporate Diversity & Philanthropy and an Executive Council member at KeyCorp, one of the nation’s largest bank-based multiline financial services companies. In her role, Copeland also serves as Chair of the KeyBank
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Salvation Army to provide homeless services in Whittier
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Gov. Whitmer Announces Process to Safe and Equitable Reopening of Schools
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Lewis, Delano Eugene (1938 - )
On November 16, 1999 President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton nominated Delano Eugene Lewis to be the United States Ambassador to South Africa.  Lewis was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and served in that capacity from 1999 to 2001.  Having spent much of his adult life to that point as an attorney
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Sudan: Six Month Extension of UNIFSA Mandate Welcomed
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Haitian-American Legislator Condemns 'Egregious, Inhumane' Treatment By NYPD | New York Carib News
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Kenneth Coleman
Ken Coleman is a long term veteran of Silicon Valley. Ken is Chairman of Saama Technologies, Inc., an advanced data and analytics company delivering actionable business insights to the Fortune 2000 in life sciences and other verticals. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard Company in various
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LSK cancels senior counsel honour for Kalonzo, Karua
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A Summary of South African Apartheid
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Volusia to offer $3,000 grants to local small businesses to offset COVID-19 impacts –
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Regina Benjamin, MD is the Former United States Surgeon General and a practicing family physician. In July 2009, Benjamin was appointed as the 18th United States Surgeon General and served a four – year term. During that period, Benjamin served as the Chair of the National Prevention, Health
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19th-Century Statesman
Julius C. Chappelle had one of the most successful careers in Boston electoral politics of the late 19th century. He was elected to the Republican State Central Committee, the Boston City Council, and the state legislature. He served in the state House of Representatives from 1883 to 1886, the
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Michael A. Todman
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McGann, C. Steven (1951 - )
C. Steven McGann joined the Foreign Service in 1992 and has since attained the status of Career member, Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Minister-Counselor (FE-MC).  His overseas posts have included Taiwan, Zaire, South Africa, Australia, and
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South End Physician
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Thomas Atkins
In 1967 Thomas Atkins became the first Black Bostonian to win a city-wide election to the Boston City Council. He served two two-year terms before losing a campaign for mayor in 1971.
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Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as Al-Shabaab (meaning youth), is a clan-based jihadist terrorist group in East Africa. Originating as the militant youth wing of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (ICU), which took over southern Somalia in June 2006, the group splintered off
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Lesotho: South Africa Worried by Liquor Smuggling From Lesotho
Lesotho could be forced to reinstate the ban on the sale of alcohol after complaints from the South African government about the smuggling of the product from
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