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Niger
Niger, in West Africas Sahara region, is four-fifths the size of Alaska. It is surrounded by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The Niger River in the southwest flows through the countrys only fertile area. Elsewhere the land is
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Libya: President Cyril Ramaphosa Participates in AU Contact Group Meeting On Libya, 19 May
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Ghana
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4
1979
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy honors President Barack Obama
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Newswire :Shooting death in Georgia of Ahmaud Arbery, is defined as a “Modern Day Lynching”
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Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972
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World War II: Fighting in North Africa and Italy
In June 1940, as fighting was winding down in France, the pace of operations quickened in the Mediterranean. The area was vital for Britain, which needed to maintain access to the Suez Canal in order to remain in close contact with the rest of its empire. Following Italys declaration of war on
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Cousin, Ertharin (1957– )
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Chelsea C. Williams - Possibility Coach. Talent Strategist. Trainer.
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Early History of African American Inventors
Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, is believed to have been the first African-American inventor to receive a patent for an invention. He was 30 years old when he was granted a patent for a dry-cleaning process. Jennings was a free tradesman and operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City. His
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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II
Desmond Power, a third generation British subject born in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China in 1923, was incarcerated along with 1,500 other foreign nationals in 1943 in Weihsien, a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in North China during World War II.  In the article below, Power recalls Earl Whaley and
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Brown, Corrine (1946- )
Corrine Brown, now in her eighth term in office, is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She represents Florida’s Third Congressional District which includes Jacksonville and the surrounding area.  Brown was born on November 11, 1946 in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up
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Nov
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1946
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Venus Williams On Quarantine, Her New Beauty Venture And The SPF That Won’t Make You Look Ashy
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Chad
A landlocked country in north-central Africa, Chad is about 85% the size of Alaska. Its neighbors are Niger, Libya, the Sudan, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Lake Chad, from which the country gets its name, lies on the western border with Niger and Nigeria. In the north is
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Sudan
Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur
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Kenya: Great News for Motorists as Epra Slashes Petrol, Diesel Prices
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(1946) W.E. B. DuBois, “Behold the Land”
On October 20, 1946, seventy-eight year old W.E.B DuBois delivered the address at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature in Columbia South Carolina.  Although this was one of his last major orations, he used the occasion to inspire his audience to continue the struggle for racial
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20
1946
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Jesse J. Greene
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