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Uganda: One Killed, Plantations Destroyed in Land Row
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Antioch Baptist Church, San Jose, California (1893- )
Organized on August 2, 1893 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hawkins, Antioch Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist church in San Jose, California. Rev. C.C. Laws was called as the first pastor, requesting a salary of $10.00 a month with board, with the provision that as the church
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Amatore, Michele (1826?-1883)
As a six-year-old boy named Quetto, Michele Amatorewitnessed his village of Commi in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudandecimated by Egyptian soldiers and their leaders who profited from the slavetrade.  The oldest of four children, hisfather was a village chief named Bolingia; his mother was
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Emmett Till
Born: 7/25/1941 Chicago, IllinoisDied: 8/28/1955 Money, MississippiEmmett Till was an African-American teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14, after reportedly flirting with a white woman.Till was from Chicago, Illinois, and visiting relatives in Money, a small town in the
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Africa: Hormuud CEO Calls for the Development of Clear Strategies for the Prevention and Containment of the Coronavirus in Africa
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The Exception but Never the Rule – Voice and Viewpoint
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