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Haynes, Ulric St. Clair, Jr. (1931- )
The sole child of immigrants from the Barbados, Ulric St. Clair Haynes Jr. was born June 8, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York. Haynes attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, graduating cum laude in 1952, and then earned a law degree at Yale University four years later.  Haynes worked briefly as an
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Senegal
National name: République du Sénegal
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NGUGI: To stop butchering of citizens, Africa should support
With the imminent collapse of Rwanda’s Juvenal Habyarimana regime, Felicien Kabuga, a key genocide suspect arrested in France on May 16, escaped and received sanctuary in several
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King, Betty Eileen (1957– )
Betty Eileen King is a public servant, philanthropist, and diplomat who has spent her career working to improve the lives of people around the world. Born in 1957 on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, King attended Grenadine Girls High School in Kingstown, the island nation’s capital, before
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Stolen Sh328bn aid cash hidden abroad
Kenya’s elite siphoned Sh328 billion of World Bank aid payments to offshore accounts in two decades, a new study
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Fugitive Félicien Kabuga arrested
Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint
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Sierra Leone’s human freedom index performance has dropped under SLPP government
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Vast amounts of Venezuelan oil are hidden en route to China, bypassing U.S. sanctions - data, documents
CARACAS/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Last year, China replaced the United States as the No. 1 importer of oil from Venezuela, yet another front in the heated rivalry between Washington and
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Zimbabwe: Activists' Abductions - EU, UK, US Light Fires Under Mnangagwa, Demand Unbiased Probe
The international community has unequivocally told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that it expected his government to carry out swift, thorough and credible investigations into last week's abduction and brutal attacks on three MDC Alliance youth
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Kampala the least expensive city to live in East Africa
The annual Mercer survey ranks cities’ cost of living based on the prices of goods and services such as food, clothing and
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Alexander, Roberta (1949- )
Roberta Alexander is an internationally famous American opera soprano. After performing in numerous operas in the United States and Europe, she established herself as one of the leading American sopranos in the latter quarter of the twentieth century, both on the operatic stage and as an orchestral
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Mathieu, Gail Dennise (1951?- )
Gail Dennise Mathieu, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed United States Ambassador to Niger by President George W. Bush in 2002. She remained in Niamey, the capital until 2005.  In 2007 President Bush appointed her United States Ambassador to Namibia. Between these
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Kenya: Govt's Repeated Denials of Complicity in High Places Under Scrutiny
Earlier in June 2001, the International Crisis Group (ICG) released a report titled "International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Delayed Justice," implicating government officials in the hiding of Mr
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UN Agency says coronavirus presents opportunity to fix remittance systems | New York Carib News
ROME, CMC – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says that the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is both a challenge and an opportunity to fix the remittance systems in the Caribbean and other
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Kenya: Elite Cart Away Over U.S.$3 Billion of World Bank Aid
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Fighting for Freedom on Both Sides of the American Revolution
Alan Gilbert, University of Denver political scientist and anti-racist activist, is the author of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, one of the few works that examines the free and enslaved blacks who joined the American Patriots and the British
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Ash, Aesha (1977- )
Born in Rochester, New York, on December 30, 1977 to Costello and John Ash, Aesha Ash grew up in a strong, supportive working class family with two brothers, Spencer and Jonathan Ash.  From the age of five Ash took jazz and tap
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NDAHINDA: What to expect when Kabuga faces justice
Mr Kabuga, 84, was initially indicted by the Arusha-based United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in
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Thomas-Greenfield, Linda (1952- )
Born in Baker, Louisiana circa 1952, Linda Thomas-Greenfield graduated from a segregated high school in 1970. The first in her family to graduate from high school, Thomas-Greenfield saw the local Peace Corps training center, which trained volunteers for work in Somalia and Swaziland, as influencing
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an African-American singer, pianist and civil rights activist. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She was born in Tryon, North Carolina to Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon. She was the sixth of seventh children and the family was quite poor when Simone was growing
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Dixon, Charles Dean (1915-1976)
Charles Dean Dixon, conductor, was born January 10, 1915 in New York, New York to West Indian parents Henry Charles Dixon and McClara Rolston Dixon. Dixon’s parents exposed him to classical music at an early age and his mother taught him to play the violin, along with a number of other
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Hoost, Petra (1976- )
At twenty years old, Petra Hoost, born January 16, 1976, in the city of Enkhuizen, Netherlands, became the first Afro-Dutch woman to win the Miss Netherlands pageant in 1996.  She went on to represent Netherlands at the Miss World pageant held in Bangalore, India, but didnt place. Hoost’s father is
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Media Watch: Kenya to consolidate spike in tech use during COVID-19
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Tina Knowles-Lawson, Beyoncé Knowles Carter, Mothers of the Movement Urge Senate to Pass HEROES Act
Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the
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Bumbry, Grace (1937- )
Grace Bumbry is considered one of the foremost mezzo-sopranos of the opera world. She and several of her African American contemporaries, including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Shirley Verrett, and Reri Grist, are credited with following Marian Anderson, a pioneer in paving the way for African
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(1967) Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first major public address on the War in Vietnam at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. In that address he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the
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Hongkong : l’activiste pro-démocratie Agnes Chow libérée - Haiti24
La militante du mouvement pro-démocratie à Hongkong, Agnes Chow, a été libérée de prison, samedi 12juin. Agée de 24ans, elle a passé sept mois en prison pour son rôle pendant les manifestations de 2019 devant le quartier général de la police. Attendue par plusieurs journalistes à sa sortie de
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