Brazil’s court rules government must protect tribes from coronavirus

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LeBron James And Other Stars Form A Voting Rights Group | The Oklahoma Eagle

Invoking the names of an earlier generation of athletes who called for social justice, Mr. James, a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, said he wanted to be a model for future

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Senegal

When the economy continued to stagnate, and with it Senghors popularity, he resigned after 20 years at the helm in favor of his protégé, Abdou Diouf. Diouf, who led the country for the next 20 years, initiated further economic and political liberalization, including the sale of government companies

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These Brands Are Still Tapping Into Nostalgia for Slavery

But arguably the most egregious examples of these mascots are the ones rooted in nostalgia for slavery, representing the Aunt Jemima, Cream of Wheat and Uncle Ben brands that all emerged between the Civil War and the Civil Rights

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Reopen Ole America Now!

You will have more coronavirus and other latent viruses will Bottom line, fake news media insidiously hyping fear is harming

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Theodore Roosevelt Statue To Be Removed From New York Museum Entrance

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If We Don’t Solve Racial Injustice, We’ll Never Solve The Climate Crisis

During Hurricane Katrina, Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, was watching the news, seeing Black people on roofs waving anything they could find to beg the helicopters above to save their

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Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest. And to help them, a group ...

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Democrats block GOP police reform Bill in US Senate

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AFP) — US Senate Democrats blocked a closely watched police reform bill yesterday, arguing that the Republican measure introduced after George Floyd's killing by police does not go far

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Inside Uganda’s proposed 'scientific election' | Analysis | Africanews

Ugandans are engaged in heated debates over the merits, possibilities and effectiveness of participating in what is being popularly referred to as a ‘scientific

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Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood, officially Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun [Arab.,=Society of Muslim Brothers], religious and political organization founded (1928) in Egypt by Hasan al- Banna . Early opposed to secular tendencies in Islamic nations and also anti-British and anti-Zionist, the organization has

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Racist Teddy Roosevelt Statue To Come Down From Museum of Natural History In NYC

A figure of Theodore Roosevelt that has welcomed visitors from all over the world to New York City’s Museum of Natural History is about to get

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Khupe plots MDC bloodbath

THE MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe yesterday held its first meeting at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House (formerly Harvest House), two weeks after seizing control of the building from rivals with the help of the army and police and resolved to recall more defiant legislators and councillors

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#TBT: Chindori Chininga: The life and times in Multimedia

Senior officials from other political parties including those from Zanu PF’s arch-rival, the MDC-T, hailed Chindori-Chininga as someone who was candid in the handling of his work, including the Mines and Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee that he was chairing at the time of his

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Protests in DRC over Bill to reform justice

The Bill proposes to have the office of the prosecution answer to the Ministry of Justice, a situation opposed by political parties and the national union of

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Lesotho: ABC Faces New Power Dynamic After Thabane Ouster

We all know that he also has ambitions (to lead the ABC) ... There is Prof Mahao who has led the processes that have catapulted Majoro to the premiership and then there is Mr Thabane fighting to remain

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Kenya: Western Politicians Fight for Ford Kenya Leadership

A faction led by Kanduyi MP Wafula Wamunyinyi, who was on Sunday announced by the party's special National Executive Council as the party leader, replacing Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang'ula presented their papers to the Registrar of Political Parties Anne

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Lesotho: ABC Infighting to Blame for Collapse of Govt - Moleleki

ABC officials have accused Mr Moleleki of influencing Mr Thabane to illegally prorogue parliament from 20 March to 19 June 2020- a move which was nullified last month by the Constitutional Court after a petition by the ABC, DC and other

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Scrubbing California Landmarks of Racist Symbols — and the Word “Negro”

Renaming CA State Park Negro Bar, Formerly “Ni**er

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Africa: Reaching Communities in Chad With COVID-19 Safety Messages

When the pandemic reached Chad, health authorities rolled out a raft of response measures, including door-to-door visits by community health educators to relay messages on

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Uganda

The National Resistance Army (NRA), an anti-Obote group led by Yoweri Museveni, kept fighting after it had been excluded from the new regime. It seized Kampala on Jan. 29, 1986, and Museveni was declared president. Museveni has transformed the ruins of Idi Amin and Milton Obotes Uganda into an

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Uganda: Politicians Push to Reopen Economy Ahead of Poll Campaigns to Start

And now just emerging from no contact with voters, there are concerns about whether the election calendar and roadmap as set by the National Electoral Commission in December 2018 is still viable considering the time

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Tanzania: Mkapa Forms Cabinet After Being Sworn-in As President Dar

Dar es Salaam — After the rerun of the October 1995 polls in the seven constituencies of Dar es Salaam Region on November 19, 1995, the National Electoral Commission (NEC), on November 22, declared CCM Presidential flag bearer Benjamin Mkapa the president of the United Republic of

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Court of Appeal to rule Monday in challenge to GECOM declaration

The Guyana Court of Appeal is to rule on Monday at 1.30 pm in the case brought by Eslyn David against GECOM and the Chief Election Officer seeking to stop the declaration of the results of the March 2nd general

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Kenya: Panic in Cabinet Over Looming Changes as Kenyatta Charts Legacy

The stage is set for the formation of a government of national unity as President Uhuru Kenyatta races against time to implement his legacy projects -- the Big Four

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Guyanese and global community pinning their hope on Chair to act decisively in rejecting the Lowenfield report

Caricom and Gecom Chair Claudette Singh are applauded for standing by the people of Guyana in their struggle for consolidation of electoral democratic gains that were first made in 1992 after the long struggle to win the right to vote in free and fair

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Africa: Compendium of New Research Celebrates African Solutions to National and Global Problems

A new major publication - the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Politics - contains many important chapters that make the same point on a wide variety of

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Ruto's options for 2022 poll victory

Deputy President William Ruto is exploring all available options to clear his path to State House amid a sustained onslaught by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is seeking to clip his political

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Zambia

Zambia, a landlocked country in south-central Africa, is about one-tenth larger than Texas. It is surrounded by Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. The country is mostly a plateau that rises to 8,000 ft (2,434 m) in the

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Banda, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu (c. 1896-1997)

HastingsBanda, the first president of Malawi, was initially presented to the Malawipeople by British Colonial officials as the best person who could lead them intoindependence. Later as the country’s self-declared “life president,” Banda transformedthis African democracy into

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