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Let's talk about national security, By Adeyinka Famadewa
While we are always talking about security, we should do so meaningfully, with the intention of developing a comprehensive and lasting response. One likely action is for the responsible authority to expressly state Nigeria’s definition of national security as a first step. This could be included
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Source: Premium Times - Nigeria leading newspaper for news, investigations
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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
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NASA says its working on schedule for next moon mission after watchdog report
NASA said it working on a timeline for its next crewed mission to the moon after a Congressional watchdog reported that the space agency's planned 2025 date was 'unrealistic.' The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in late November that NASA's timeline for the Artemis III mission was
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LOTTO Results edit post Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 28 February 2021 2021-02-28 edit post Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 27 February 2021
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Juneteenth Becomes a Holiday for County Employees
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and County Board Chairwoman Marcelia Nicholson announced today by way of Executive Order #20-15 that Milwaukee County employees will have a floating holiday on June 19 to mark Juneteenth Day and the end of slavery in
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Pics of the day: December 6, 2023 | Africanews
Africanews focuses on the most striking images of the day's news.
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Pharrell Williams Helps Announce Juneteenth As An Official Paid Holiday In Virginia
The date of June 19, also known as Juneteenth will be recognized as an official paid holiday in the state of Virginia starting this year with state
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Amy Robach And T.J. Holmes, For The First Time Publicly, Speak On ABC/'GMA' Firing In New Podcast - Blavity
Former GMA3 anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes got candid about their relationship for the first time since their high-profile departure from ABC News after their romance went public a year ago. 
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New Law Requires New York Cosmetology Students To Learn To Style Textured Hair  - Blavity
New York State requires all cosmetology schools to include education about textured hair in their curriculum. The bill , introduced in April by New York State Sen. Jamaal T. Bailey, was signed into law on Nov. 17. It will go into effect in about six months.
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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”
Los Angeles newspaper owner and political activist Charlotta Bass began her career as a conservative Republican.  By the 1940s, however, she moved to the political left.  In 1948 she supported Progressive Party candidate Henry Wallace in his failed bid for the Presidency.  Four years later she was
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Black Abolitionists: Self-Emancipated Women Eliza Smalls and Polly Ann Bates
By Lesley Gist, The Gist of Freedom 'Before the ship's owner could arrest them under the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law, a group of 6 black women from the Boston Anti-Slavery Society rushed into the state Supreme Court. While the attorney for Morris was addressing the judge, Someone in the
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Black Museums From Coast to Coast Collaborate to Launch BlkFreedom.org
The Platform Launch Commemorated the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth
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NFL will observe Juneteenth as official league holiday
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in an internal memo to staff, announced that the league will observe Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, as an official holiday and the league’s offices will be closed that
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Project 2025 is also a threat to Barbados, Caribbean - Barbados Today
As more and more Americans become sensitised to the highly controversial Project 2025 and the insidious plan to radically alter the United States of America as we know it, people are also beginning to uncover the impact of some of the Project’s plans that would directly affect Barbados and other
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Congress authorized President Lincoln to accept blacks in Union Army.
Congress authorized President Lincoln to accept blacks in Union Army.
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17
1862
Black Museums From Coast to Coast Collaborate to Launch BlkFreedom.org
Nationwide — On June 19th, six leading Black museums and historical institutions from coast to coast have joined forces to launch BLKFREEDOM.org, a digital commemoration of Juneteenth, the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was officially enforced, ending enslavement in
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President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in
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1
1863
North Carolina Legislature adjourns
North Carolina Legislature, dominated by Black Republicans and white Populists, adjourned for the day to mark the death of Frederick Douglass.
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21
1895
(1963) John F. Kennedy, “We Face A Moral Crisis: The Civil Rights Message to Congress, 1963”
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent his civil right message to Congress urging it to pass a civil rights act.  The message was immediately prompted by the action of Governor George Wallace of Alabama in physically blocking the entrance of two African American students whom a federal
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11
1963
Compensation For States
President Lincoln, in message to Congress, recommended the use of federal bonds to provide compensation for states that abolished slavery before 1900.
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Dec
1
1862
Proclamation on Amnesty and Reconstruction
On this day, President Lincoln issued his Proclamation on Amnesty and Reconstruction for the restoration of the Confederate states into the Union. He offered them a full pardon and restoration of their rights if they were willing to take an oath of loyalty to the Union and accept the end of
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Dec
8
1863
Juneteenth An Important Historic Marker - The Seattle Medium
In my opinion, what Juneteenth is, among many other things, is a tangible manifestation of the human spirit of our ancestors that even the inhumanity and brutality of chattel slavery could not extinguish. The post Juneteenth An Important Historic Marker appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
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Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915)
Black Nationalist, repatriationist, and minister, Henry M. Turner was 31 years old at the time of the Emancipation. Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina to free black parents Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner. The self-taught Turner by the age of fifteen worked as a janitor
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1915
The History Of Juneteenth, And Why It Is Relevant Today
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with poet and lawyer CeLillianne Green about the history behind Juneteenth and what it means at this
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South Africa: Sugar Company CEO Dan Marokane to be Named as Head of Power Utility - Reports
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Dan Marokane is set to be appointed as chief executive officer of power utility Eskom, South African news website News24 reports.
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(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”
In 1972 Barbara Charline Jordan became the first black member of Congress elected from Texas. Two years later this freshman Representative became a national figure because of her prominent role as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of President Richard
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President Lincoln received first group of Blacks
President Lincoln received first group of Blacks to confer with a U.S. president on a matter of public policy. He urged Blacks to emigrate to Africa or Central America and was bitterly criticized by Northern Blacks.
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14
1862
‘What is Hampton University?’ The Right Answer to a Jeopardy! Clue!
Under the category “Historically Black Colleges Universities,” the question was: “This U. near the VA. ‘Roads’ region has an oak tree where the Emancipation Proclamation got its first southern
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Harrison, Samuel (1818-1900)
Samuel Harrison, a minister, political activist, and former slave, became one of Berkshire County, Massachusetts’s most ardent abolitionists. Harrison was born enslaved in Philadelphia in 1818 but he and his mother were freed in 1821.  Shortly afterwards the widowed mother and her son moved to New
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NFL Will Observe Juneteenth as Official League Holiday
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, in an internal memo to staff, announced that the league will observe Juneteenth on Friday, June 19, as an official holiday and the league’s offices will be closed that
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