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Not too long after she earned a doctorate from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, where she was the only African-American graduate in her class, Dr. Julie R. Butler took over the 145th Street Animal Hospital, for many years the only full-service vet clinic in
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Uganda: Access to Finance Rescues Farmers During COVID-19
Founder and Chairman of Mount Elgon Agroforestry Communities Cooperative Enterprise Ltd (MEACCE), he is proud of their signature product: specialty Arabica
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Gordone, Charles (1925- )
Charles Gordone was born Charles Edward Fleming on October 12, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio to parents William and Camille Fleming.  He took his stepfather’s surname of Gordon when his mother remarried when he was five years old.  The family moved to Elkhart, Indiana, his mother’s hometown, when Charles
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1995
The doctors who cried wolf and other commentary
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Chad's Storytellers Take COVID Prevention Messages Off the Grid
Traditional storytellers in Chad, known as troubadours, are taking life-saving messages to remote communities in the Sahelian country, as the Government steps up its efforts with the support of the UN to counter the COVID-19
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Africa: Could BCG, a 100-Year-Old Vaccine for Tuberculosis, Protect Against Coronavirus?
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Africa's Young People Get Boost From New Partnership
After months of successful and continuous collaboration, the Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) and ITC's Youth & Trade programme have joined forces to get more young people involved in reaching the Sustainable Development
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African-American studies
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Cameroon: South West - COVID-19 Testing Centres Now Available
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Angola: COVID-19 - Infringing Airlines Risk Getting Licences Cancelled
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Mauritania reopens mosques after lull in virus infections
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Nigeria: Alarm Bells As COVID-19 Cripples Poultry, Fish Farming Biz
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Robinson, Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt (1919–1972)
When Jackie Robinson took the field on April 15, 1947 wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he became the first African American in over fifty years to play on a major league baseball team. In the process, he broke through baseball’s color line that had relegated African American players to the
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Lionel Richie
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Burundi Expels WHO Officials
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Africa's persona non grata diplomacy: Burundi sacks WHO experts
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Botswana coronavirus: capital Gaborone declared high-risk area, 'quarantined'
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Keith L. Black, M.D. – A Trailblazer Inspiring the Next Generation of Neurosurgeons
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Rep Maxine Waters reveals her sister died of COVID-19 at nursing home
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Arroyo, Martina (1936- )
Born to a Puerto Rican father and African American mother, Martina Arroyo was a world-renowned operatic soprano from the 1960s through 1989, the year of her professional retirement. She and her contemporaries were the first generation of African American opera soloists to attain international
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Kenya: Curfew and Travel Rules Set for Review
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Davis, Angela (1944--)
Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama.  The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku
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Uganda: Government Should Rescue People From Poverty
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