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National name: Repubulika yu Rwanda
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National name: République du Niger
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(1886) T. Thomas Fortune, “The Present Relations of Labor and Capitol”
In 1886, T. Thomas Fortune, born enslaved in Florida thirty years earlier, was already a newspaper owner and publisher in New York City and author of Black and White: Land, Labor and Politics in the Old South (1884), the first significant work to argue that class conflict rather than racial strife
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Africa: The 2020 Global Nutrition Report Calls on Govts, Businesses and Civil Society to Step up Efforts to Address Malnutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten health and food systems in Africa and around the world, the 2020 Global Nutrition Report calls on governments, businesses and civil society to step up efforts to address malnutrition in all its
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African Company / African Grove Theatre
The African Company was the first known black theatre troupe. In 1816, William Henry Brown (1815-1884), a retired West Indian steamship steward, acquired a house on Thomas Street in lower Manhattan, New York. He offered a variety of instrumental and vocal entertainments on Sunday afternoons in his
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Egyptian Myths of Creation
Egyptian cosmogonies were more about explaining the order of the world (personified as Maat), especially the rising of the sun and the flooding of the Nile, than the creation of mankind. The world would continue its orderly progression regardless of whether or not we mere mortals lived or
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August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each work in the series is set in a different decade, and depicts comic and tragic aspects of the
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DRC: Deadly landslide infuriates residents near Goma
At least one child died and two others missing in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo following
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Nigeria: Alarm Bells As COVID-19 Cripples Poultry, Fish Farming Biz
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Africa: Inadequate Diets Are Making Populations Vulnerable to COVID-19
Johannesburg — AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Dr Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in all its forms by tackling injustices in food and health
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Negro Baseball Leagues
The Negro Baseball Leagues were professional leagues in the United States for players of African descent. At its height of popularity--from 1920 through World War II, Negro Baseball Leagues were an integral part of African-American life and culture during the Jim Crow
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1911
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Skee-Wee My Sorors! — Sherrelle
My sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is the oldest Greek-lettered organization established by African American college women.
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Lena Horne
A pioneer among African-American performers, Lena Horne had the talent and beauty to crack the race barrier in Hollywood in the 1940s. A smooth singer of bluesy ballads, Lena Horne appeared onstage in Harlem when she was only 14 years old, and by age 16 she was singing in the famous Cotton
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Mali
National name: République de Mali
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Zambia
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South Africa: With Enough Support, People Can Grow Their Own Food
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how impoverished people and the working class suffer when food prices rise and jobs disappear, prompting a renewed interest in working the
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South Africa: Unions Insist Deadly Eastern Cape Clinics Must Close
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) says it will shut down the Port Elizabeth district office of the Department of Health after two nurses from the Zwide Clinic died and at least 11 others tested positive for the
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African Company / African Grove Theatre
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South Africa: COVID-19 Pandemic Holds Lessons for South Africa's Universal Health Care Plans
This dream of a single national health system could be realised if South Africa is able to articulate a common vision for all its
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Africa: Seven Ways We Are Making Ourselves Sick (And How We Can Stop)
The World Health Organization attributes 23 per cent of all deaths to unhealthy environments; and this year, the top five risks cited in the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report were all related to the
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Slavery Purchased America's Freedom
Slavery Purchased Americas Freedom: While the white Americans profit from slave trade, they actually benefited from the slave system to fund the war against England. As one historian put it, Americans actually purchased their freedom with products grown by slaves and then traded to the French
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2002
(1850) Samuel Ringgold Ward, “Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill”
Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817-1864), was one of the most prominent of the anti-slavery speakers in the nation by the 1850s. Born into slavery in Maryland, he escaped with his mother to New Jersey. In 1834 when he was 17 Ward was attacked by a pro-slavery mob in New York and was temporarily
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Liberia: Unity Party Survives On Cummings' Pocket
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Equatorial guinea
National name: Républica de Guinea Ecuatorial
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Liberia: Bankers Association Donates to NPHIL
In support of government's efforts to stem the spread of the Coronavirus out of the country, the Liberian Bankers Association (LBA) has donated a huge consignment of food and non-food items to the National Public Health Institute of Liberia
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Playing Golf Alone Without the Caddies
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HIGHLAND PARK CAFETERIA WILL REMAIN CLOSED PERMANENTLY – AFTER 95 YEARS
DALLAS – The Highland Park Cafeteria opened 95 years ago in 1925 on Knox Street in the foothills of Highland Park, a highly affluent town in central Dallas
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Holmes, Benjamin M. (1846-1875)
Teacher, news correspondent, and Fisk Jubilee Singer, Benjamin M. Holmes was born a slave around 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina and bound as an apprentice to a black tailor. Holmes was eventually bought by a man named Kaylor, who employed him as a hotel clerk in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While
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1875
Tanzania: Fishing Industry Base Firm
THE government has announced that stern measures to control illegal fishing and disputes between farmers and pastoralists have significantly increased the contribution of the sector to the
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