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Negative attitudes towards the disabled need to be addressed - Barbados Today

A call has been made to enact specific legislative action to protect the rights of the disabled and to deconstruct existing negative attitudes towards this segment of the society. This was the overall consensus from participants attending the virtual two-day Ministerial Special Conference on Specific Legislation for Persons with Disabilities in the Caribbean, recently. Its […]

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On February 7, 2008, Belize elected Dean Barrow as its first black Prime Minister. Born March 2, 1951, in Belize City, Barrow earned his LL.M. from the University of Miami in the United States and became partner at a Belizean law firm in 1977. Two years later he established his own

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(1963) John Lewis, “We Must Free Ourselves”

John Lewis, then the 23-year-old Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was asked to speak at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. When A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders saw the draft of his speech which was critical of both the

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Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is slightly smaller than California. It is bordered by Botswana on the west, Zambia on the north, Mozambique on the east, and South Africa on the

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(1949) Nnamdi Azikiwe Addresses Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity at its 35th Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.

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1900

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