Aborigines to be counted in census

Louisiana Creole

Louisiana Creole (kréyol la lwizyàn; French: créole louisianais) is a French-based creole language spoken by far fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the state of Louisiana.[3] Due to the rapidly shrinking number of speakers, Louisiana Creole is considered an endangered

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Slave states and free states

An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789-1861 (see also: separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 1865, abolished slavery in thje

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Kenya: Census Reveals 46,000 Are Living in the Streets

Kenya has more than 46,000 street children and families, a national census conducted in 2018

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Black flight

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Stacey Abrams On Wisconsin, Voting and The Future of America

As a child, Stacey Abrams’ parents used to take her and her siblings to the voting booth whenever it was an election

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Source: The Madison Times Weekly Newspaper

Rhode Island moves toward changing its official name over slavery connotations | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Rhode Island is moving toward changing its official name — “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” — due to its slavery

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Governor's order could change state's name

The state’s official name is “the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” and the “Providence Plantations” portion has come under scrutiny in the aftermath of protests following the death of George

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah’s father was a goldsmith and his mother a retail trader. Baptized a Roman Catholic, Nkrumah spent nine years at the Roman Catholic elementary school in nearby Half Assini. After graduation from Achimota College in 1930, he started his career as a teacher at Roman Catholic junior

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Texans begin voting Monday in runoff elections. Officials are doing what they can to make it safe.

Poll workers will begin greeting voters from behind face masks and shields as early voting begins in primary runoffs that will look and operate differently from any Texas election in the past 100

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Source: Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source

Tunisia: 'Amal' for Small Government of National Competence

Tunis/Tunisia — The Amal political grouping pleaded, on Monday, for the establishment of a coherent roadmap with the help of national organisations, the presidency of the Republic and the parties represented in parliament for the formation of a small government with national

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Census help available to public this Thursday

As counting continues for the 2020 Census, the Burke County Complete Count Committee is reaching out to help make the process easier for local

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Source: The True Citizen

Youth need help to navigate the Covid crisis

Away from economic lockdowns, the pandemic is having a big impact on young people and the youth sector in a manner that urgent support services and emergency response and recovery funding are required now and in the

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Source: Business Daily

Tourism, fishing trawlers hurt seagrasses of East Africa - UN

In its new report titled Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, launched on World Oceans Day on June 8, Unep blames these unsustainable activities for a deteriorating coastal ecosystem, a decline in coastal productivity, and affected certain supportive functions

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Source: The East African

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they

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Monrovia, Liberia (1821- )

Monrovia is the capital of Liberia as well as its largest city. It is located on Bushrod Island and Cape Mesurado along the Mesurado River. A 2008 census showed its population as

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Zimbabwe: We Don't Eat Constitutional Bill, Say Starving Residents During Parly Outreach

Frustrated residents in this eastern border city have roundly rejected the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill No. 2 telling legislators it was better to gather people for mealie meal distribution than amending

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U.S. Census Bureau to deliver 2020 Census questionnaires in Wisconsin

The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin to drop off 2020 Census questionnaire packets at front doors of households in Wisconsin starting the week of May

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Source: Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin's Largest African American Newspaper

Greene County Commission holds regular meeting; votes to require Sheriff Benison to meet financial commitments to retain staff

Most of the meeting, including a lengthy closed Executive Session, was devoted to the issue of getting Greene County Sheriff, Joe Benison, to meet his financial commitment to the county budget, to pay additional staff above the basic staff included in the budget for deputies, jailers and other

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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper

Pierre Nkurunziza: Burundi rebel leader turned controversial president

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza died of a heart attack, according to a government statement released June 9, a day after he passed away in a local

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Around the State

The city of Dallas also remains under a Local State of Disaster for the COVID-19

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Malawi: Mutharika Upbeat Ahead of Malawi Re-Run - 'Losing Is Completely Hypothetical, DPP-Udf Are Winning'

Ahead of next week's Tuesday fresh presidential elections, the incumbent President Peter Mutharika has claimed to have massive support in the country and that his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance has the numbers to secure his

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(1867) Thaddeus Stevens, “Reconstruction”

In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation. In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction

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Ways technology can boost food security, rev up jobs in Kenya

Along with the economic devastation, including widespread job losses for informal sector daily wage earners and MSMEs accounting for 85 percent of Kenya’s total employment), food insecurity is one of the biggest

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Source: Business Daily

Antigua and barbuda

Current government officials

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We Are Done Dying: Protests Erupt Over the Murder of George Floyd and Others

While Floyd was handcuffed and lying face down on a city street during the arrest, Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kept his knee on the right side of Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, this according to the criminal complaint against

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Tennessee lawmakers adjourn without addressing race, reform

NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s Black lawmakers came back to the Capitol earlier this month with a request for their White colleagues: Advance public policy to send modest signals that say, “Yes, Black lives do

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Free negro

In United States history, a free negro or free black was the legal status, in the geographic area of the United States, of blacks who were not

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Sierra Leone

Coordinates: 8°30′N 11°30′W / 8.500°N 11.500°W 15% others Sierra Leone (/s iː ˈ ɛər ə l iː ˈ oʊ n iː, -l iː ˈ oʊ n/ ( listen)),[6] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north-east, Liberia to the south-east, and the Atlant

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Gentrification, Integration or Displacement?: The Seattle Story

In the following article, Henry W. McGee, Jr., a Seattle University Professor of Law and Central District resident, discusses the recent dramatic transformation of the area from a predominately working class African American community into an area of high income white, Asian American and African

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Rwanda Space Agency to Be Operational in July

Rwanda has laid ground for space technologies through the establishment of ESRI Rwanda, which provides mapping services and GIS solutions to government agencies, and the Centre of the Geographic Information System at the University of

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