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Disney to release 'Hamilton' performance in July on its streaming service
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Malawi's presidential campaign amid virus
Malawi’s presidential campaign is in full swing despite the COVID-19
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Georgia wants federal investigation into killing of runner Ahmaud Arbery
Georgia’s attorney general has asked the US Department of Justice to investigate the handling of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say died at the hands of two white men as he ran through
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Zimbabwe 'decrees' mask wearing amid lockdown extension
The government of Zimbabwe has officially made the wearing of masks compulsory in public places to combat the spread of
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CARICOM, the Caribbean Community Organization
Many countries located in the Caribbean Sea are members of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, an organization founded in 1973 to make these several small countries more cooperative, economically competitive, and influential in global politics. Headquartered in Georgetown, Guyana, CARICOM has
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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight | Afro
COVID-19 has worsened the underlying structural and perennial problem of water shortages in Matabeleland North, South and Bulawayo provinces, said Dumisani Nkomo, chief executive officer for Habakkuk Trust, a nonprofit
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Cameroon: South West - COVID-19 Testing Centres Now Available
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Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Official Video)
Michael Jacksons Remember The Time short film was the second short film from the Dangerous album and continued to push the boundaries of the music video medium with a star-studded, nine-minute epic co-starring Eddie Murphy, Iman and Magic Johnson. Directed by John Singleton, this short film was
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The following is a list of major awards won by African Americans for literary, journalistic, and scholarly writing compiled by San Diego State University Librarian Robert Fikes, Jr.  The list includes all awards earned by these writers for fiction and non fiction.  Links to specific prizes appear
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Coronavirus in Africa: 78,280 cases; 2,624 deaths; 29,245 recoveries
There are now more than over 70,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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AiR's Latest e-book 'FEAR - False Expectations Appearing Real' Addresses the Current Crisis and Shows the way Forward
BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA, May 10, 2020 / EINPresswire.com / -- Atman in Ravi's e-book titled 'FEAR' has captured the essence of the current crisis of
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AG appoints black woman as lead prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case
The Georgia attorney general on Monday appointed a black female prosecutor to oversee the case of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African-American man who was shot dead by two white men while he was reportedly out jogging on February
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Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler. It is Cooglers first feature-length film and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale
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Kenya slum demolition sparks protests amid virus restrictions
Hundreds of protesters in Kenya blocked one of Nairobi’s major highways with burning tires to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people and the closure of an adjacent food
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By 1909 Ida B. Wells was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States.  From the early 1890s she labored mostly alone in her effort to raise the nation’s awareness and indignation about these usually unpunished murders.  In 1909, however, she gained a powerful ally in the newly
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The Baptist War (1831-1832)
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Rep Maxine Waters reveals her sister died of COVID-19 at nursing home
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