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Hakeem Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was born to owners of a concrete business, Salaam and Abike Olajuwon. He was the third of six siblings. The knowledge he, along with his siblings, got from his parents was virtues of hard work, discipline and respect of life. He was
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Scrabble Will Ban Racial and Ethnic Slurs From Tournaments and Game Rules - The New York Beacon
By David Waldstein Josephine Flowers became a ranked, competitive Scrabble player more than a dozen years ago, and to commemorate the moment, she inscribed her custom-built game board with one of her favorite sayings: “Never underestimate the power of words.” The phrase serves as a constant
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709 Gauteng public healthcare workers test positive for Covid-19, health dept reveals
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South Africa: Gauteng Will Overtake Western Cape With Most COVID-19 Cases in Coming Days, Says Mkhize
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Zimbabwe: Coup Plot Tensions as Security Forces Seal Major Towns
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Tennessee advances 6-week abortion ban, lawsuit filed
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Amid nationwide unrest and a global pandemic that wrecked the state budget, Tennessee lawmakers advanced one of the strictest abortion bans in the country as most Tennesseans were asleep Friday and largely unaware the GOP-dominant General Assembly had taken up the
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By JONATHAN LEMIRE and BILL BARROW Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign reboot is getting a reboot. He will take baby steps back out onto the road Friday after a multiweek hiatus caused by a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases and after his planned comeback in
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Ghana: Flood Disaster in the Midst of COVID 19 Response.
Each year, Governments and national institutions and relief agencies are called in to respond to the disasters as a result of the heavy rains.While inspecting the extent of the disaster andproviding relief items to the victims of the flood disasters, we often hear promises of how the following year
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Russell Westbrook tests positive for COVID-19 - TheGrio
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Wearing black ribbons Birmingham City Councilors honor George Floyd
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MLB Plans 60-game Slate, Shortest Since 1878 As Union Balks
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In the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015
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