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Retired cop handed life sentence for raping granddaughter 18 years ago
A 78-year-old retired police captain was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Sterkspruit Regional Court on Wednesday for raping his then-10-year-old granddaughter more than 18 years
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Zimbabwe: Activists' Abductions - EU, UK, US Light Fires Under Mnangagwa, Demand Unbiased Probe
The international community has unequivocally told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it expected his government to carry out swift, thorough and credible investigations into last week's abduction and brutal attacks on three MDC Alliance youth
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A Place All Our Own: The Highland Beach Resort, The First Black Owned Beach Resort Town In The United States
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Zimbabwe female opposition politicians abducted, assaulted, abandoned
Three female opposition members were this week abducted leading to an outcry and diplomatic concerns raised by the United States, United Kingdom and
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Nigeria
Boko Haram was responsible for the brutal deaths of more than 400 people in and around Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria in February and early March 2014. Among its victims were children watching a soccer match and dozens of male students at a public college in Yobe State, many of whom were burned or
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Freedmen and Their Well Deserved Lands
Reports from all over the South said freedmen had abandoned plantations in expectation of a general distribution of land. General Rufus Saxton, Freedmens Bureau commander in South Carolina, said the impression is universal among the freedmen that they are to have the abandoned and confiscated
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Georgia Man Ahmaud Arbery, Shot and Killed — Jogging While Black
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Chinese ambassador to Israel found dead
The Chinese ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead at his residence on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, police
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Charles Drew
Dr. Charles Drew is the father of the modern blood bank. In 1940 he published a paper showing that when plasma is separated from the rest of human blood, it can be stored for much longer periods of time. This discovery allowed the creation of blood banks, where donated plasma could be kept until
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Ghana: 30 Health Workers in Ashanti Region Contract COVID-19 - -GHS
Kumasi — Thirty health workers in the Ashanti region have contracted the COVID-19 disease, according to the Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service's updated report, as at May
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Claudette Colvin
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FedEx Worker Claims He and His Coworker Were Fired After Posting Video of Them Confronting Racist Customer, Company Denies Firings
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Cameroon: Security Arrests People Without Masks as COVID-19 Cases Increase
Police in Cameroon have detained several hundred people for not wearing face masks in public, as COVID-19 cases in the central African state continue to
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery says 'I have a sense of hope'
(ABC NEWS) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African American whose slaying has prompted protests in Georgia, said on Monday that the arrest of a white father and son in the killing has given her “a sense of hope” that justice will be
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On August 14, 1944, African American soldiers “rioted” against Italian prisoners of war at Seattle’s Fort Lawton, an Army staging area for combat in the Pacific. American officers and POWs under their guard were severely beaten. The next morning one of the POWs, Guglielmo Olivotto, was
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Kenya: You Now Risk Arrest for Not Wearing Face Mask Properly
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Black Delivery Truck Driver Blocked from Leaving Gated Community By Man Who Thought He Was Suspicious
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Third Man Charged in Ahmaud Arbery Murder
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Dorothy Dandridge
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Angola: Tuberculosis Claims 20 Lives in Malanje Province
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered a cessation of movement of persons and passenger vehicles into and out of Kenya through her borders with Tanzania and Somalia for the next 30
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