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Gubernatorial candidates Andrew Gillum (Florida) and Stacey Abrams (Georgia) have given the November mid-term elections just the spark it needed. It’s not easy to get voters fired up for non-presidential elections so the national attention these two candidates are getting is inspiring voters in those states. But what about the rest of the country []

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Aristide, Jean-Bertrand zhän´ bĕrtränd´ ä˝rēstēd´ [key], 1953–, president of Haiti (1991, 1994–96, 2001–4). A radical Catholic priest who defended liberation theology , he worked among Haitis poor and was part of a group of progressive priests who opposed the Duvalier dictatorship. He studied

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In April 2004 presidential elections, praised by international monitors for their fairness, incumbent Bouteflika won 85% of the vote. Bouteflika stated that his second term would be devoted to solving the three-year-old crisis in the Berber region of Kabylia, freeing women from restrictive family

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Democrats Kneel At Capitol Building To Honor George Floyd

House and Senate Democrats held a moment of silence at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall on Monday (June 8) for eight minutes and 46 seconds in honor of George Floyd and others who have been killed by police

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DRC police use tear gas on protesters outside parliament

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital fired tear gas for a second straight day on Wednesday to break up violent protests outside parliament over proposed changes in the

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Amadou Toumani Touré , byname ATT (born November 4, 1948, Mopti, French Sudan [now in Mali]), Malian politician and military leader who twice led his country. He served as interim president (1991–92) after a coup and was elected president in 2002. In March 2012 he was deposed in a military

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Fulton County Library System welcomes guest reader Stacey Abrams

The Fulton County Library System’s Summer Reading Program kicked off Monday, June 1 with a full week of exciting guest speakers, including best-selling author Nic Stone, local politicians, Lucy McBath and Park Cannon and local artists from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Dad’s Garage Theatre

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Liberia: Civil Society Organizations At Odds Over Changing Mid-Term Elections Date to December

The Election Coordinating Committee of Mr. Oscar Bloh and the Liberia Election Observation Network (LEON) represented by Mr. Augustine Tamba and Mr. Amose Williams were in

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Amazon Studios to release voting rights film featuring Stacey Abrams

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In Dec. 2003 President Conté was reelected to a third term. In April 2004, after two months on the job, Prime Minister Lonseny Fall resigned and went into exile, claiming that the president would not allow him to govern effectively. President Conté is in poor health, and many fear a power struggle

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Wheatley, Integrity Commission head to court over report

Former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley has taken court action challenging a “dishonest” characterisation against him in an Integrity Commission report on allegations of corruption at the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam. One of Wheatley’s...

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Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control

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Harris County Clerk mails vote by mail applications to voters 65+

Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins has sent vote by mail applications to 376,840 registered voters who are 65 years of age and

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Serving presidents Nixon and H.W. Bush, here’s the trailblazing tale of attorney Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious - Face2Face Africa

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Mauritania became an independent nation on Nov. 28, 1960, and was admitted to the United Nations in 1961 over the strenuous opposition of Morocco, which claimed the territory. In the late 1960s, the government sought to make Arab culture dominant. Racial and ethnic tension between

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Stacey Abrams Will Appear In Voting Rights Documentary For Amazon

A new documentary about voting rights and voter suppression, prominently featuring Stacey Abrams, is set to hit Amazon later this

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This West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the

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Guinea, in West Africa on the Atlantic, is also bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte dIvoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Slightly smaller than Oregon, the country consists of a coastal plain, a mountainous region, a savanna interior, and a forest area in the Guinea Highlands. The highest

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Approximately two hours after news emerged that former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Wheatley had filed a court challenge to conclusions made about him by the Integrity Commission in its probe of the Petrojam scandal, the commission admitted that it had erred in an aspect of the same report relating

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West, Allen (1961- )

In 2010, retired lieutenant colonel Allen West became the first black Republican to represent Florida in Congress since Rep. Josiah T. Walls, who served during Reconstruction. Congressman West was born on February 7, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia to Herman and Elizabeth West. His father was a career

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Trump Month In Review: September

President Donald Trump’s ongoing troubles with women just got worse. Trump’s unwavering support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh who has been accused of sexual misconduct by three women– could hurt Republican candidates during the upcoming mid-term elections in November and could

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Social Media Erupts After Kanye West Announces He’s Running for President in the 2020 Election

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George Floyd’s Brother, Pres. Obama Call for People to “Vote” for Change | Post News Group

As protests and unrest continued to sweep the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, Floyd’s brother Terrence Floyd urged protesters to remain peaceful and push for change another way: by

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Matt Barnes Says Some NBA Players Don't Want to Return This Season Because of George Floyd and the Protests

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Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court said Monday that states can punish members of the Electoral College who break a pledge to vote for a states popular vote winner in presidential elections. The case comes as the election season is heating up, putting the Electoral

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‘Justice Now: A BET Town Hall’ Featuring Stacey Abrams, Brittany Packnett And More

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