Court sets aside eviction of social housing occupiers, for now

Uganda Executive, MPs in tussle over use of Covid-19 funds

Despite seeming to have softened his stance on the Ush10 billion ($2.6 million) that Ugandan legislators allocated themselves as part of the Covid-19 supplementary budget, President Yoweri Museveni is said to have ordered an audit of the

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Source: The East African

Assa Nyakundi wins first round in murder case

The court noted that whereas it could have wished to grant the application by the DPP to discontinue the current proceedings, “the spirit of the law generally, and the Constitution in particular, must be upheld not only for the sanctity of the judicial system but also for the interest of the public

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Nadine Gordimer - Birthday

Nadine Gordimer , (born November 20, 1923, Springs, Transvaal [now in Gauteng], South Africa—died July 13, 2014, Johannesburg), South African novelist and short-story writer whose major theme was exile and alienation.

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Source: Brittanica

Nov

20

1923

Witherspoon Street Church (1836– )

Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to form their own church. Nassau had

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Source: Black Past

Mar

10

1836

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor , in full Sonia Maria Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954, Bronx, New York, U.S.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2009. She was the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the Supreme

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Source: Brittanica

Jun

25

1954

Freedmen's Town, Houston, Texas (1865- )

Freedmen’s Town is a nationally registered historical site. The site was originally a community located in the fourth ward of Houston, Texas that began in 1865 as the destination for former enslaved people from surrounding plantations in Texas and Louisiana after the Civil

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Source: Black Past

Jun

19

1865

Pinnacle Point - Howiesons Poort Cave Site in South Africa

Definition: Pinnacle Point, also known as PP13B, is the name of a sea cave in the coastal cliffs near Mossel Bay, on the southern coast of South Africa. The site includes an extensive Middle Stone Age deposit with multiple occupations, dated between 39,000 and 162,000 years ago, consisting of uncem

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Source: ThoughtCo

Court orders NSSF to join Ngong Forest land case

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) will now have to fight in court to keep a 1,000-acre-portion of Ngong Forest it bought from Ankhan Holdings — a company associated with Jonathan Moi, Sammy Boit Kogo and Hubert Nyambu Mwakibwa — as the Kenya Forest Service seeks to reclaim the prime

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park

Movement of Black families into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago triggered virtually continuous riot which lasted more than three years and required assignment of more than one thousand policemen to keep order.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Aug

4

1953

Ex-Zesa boss Chifamba acquitted

High Court judge Justice Benjamin Chikowero has acquitted former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba of criminal abuse of office

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Easley v. Cromartie (2001)

* Governor Michael F. Easley is hereby substituted for former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., pursuant to this Courts Rule

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Source: Black Past

GECOM cannot escape the accusation of fraud and must investigate

This large grouping (which includes all the contesting parties, local and international observers) has provided videos and other evidence that shows how Mingo added votes for APNU+AFC and reduced the votes cast in favour of the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Communications Authority launches search for new chief

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Source: Business Daily

Lagos coronavirus: 2,755 cases; patient delivers twins

Total cases = 2,755

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

Schmoke, Kurt L. (1949- )

Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949, came from a middle class background. His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was a graduate of Morehouse College, and his mother, Irene was a social worker. Schmoke attended the citys prestigious public high school, Baltimore

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Source: Black Past

Swaziland

Current government officials

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Kenya

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Kenya: Ex Kenyan International Rombo Named Kenya Rugby League Coach

Nairobi — Former Kenyan international Edward Rombo, also a renowned lawyer and the first Kenyan to play professional rugby has been named as the new Kenya Rugby League (KRL) head

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cleaver, Emanuel (1944- )

Reverend Emanuel Cleaver II, born in Waxahachie, Texas in 1944, is best known as the first African American mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. Cleaver, who grew up in a public housing project in Wichita Falls, Texas, graduated from Prairie View A & M University in Texas with a B.S. in Sociology

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Source: Black Past

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: She Fought Against Racism and Lynching

Ida B. Wells-Barnett, known for much of her public career as Ida B. Wells, was an anti-lynching activist, a muckraking journalist, a lecturer, and a militant activist for racial justice. She lived from July 16, 1862 to March

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Source: ThoughtCo

South Africa: Dagga Seized and Suspects Arrested

During the early hours of this morning, police officers from Besters SAPS were patrolling the N3 North Bound when they stopped a white

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Source: allAfrica.com

Meeks, Gregory W. (1953- )

U.S. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks was born on September 25, 1953 in East Harlem, New York City. He was raised in a public housing project in East Harlem and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a minor in Political Science from New York’s Adelphi University. He earned his Juris

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Source: Black Past

Sep

25

1953

South Africa: Collins Khosa - Right to Human Dignity Cannot Be Compromised and Limited During Lockdown, Court Rules

On Friday, Judge Hans Fabricius handed down judgment in favour of the family of Collins Khosa who had launched an urgent application after he was beaten to death allegedly by members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) in Alexandra, Johannesburg, in

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Source: allAfrica.com

The TransPacific Struggle over Citizenship: Seeking Welfare Rights in Kawasaki City, Japan and Los Angeles, California,1962-1982

Historians rarely compare the mostly working-class and poor Korean population in Japan and African Americans seeking economic justice in the United States. Japanese scholar Kazuyo Tsuchiya of Kanagawa University takes on that task in her new book, Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean

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Source: Black Past

Yaxxa Western Cape: One provider, multiple solutions

Yaxxa launched in the Western Cape in April 2020, offering a variety of voice and data solutions, from voice-over-IP and hosted cloud solutions to MPLS/SDWAN network services, as well as a range of solutions to assist customers during the Covid-19

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Source: TechCentral

MBUGUA: Tapping capital markets to realise Big 4 housing goal

However, it is possible for individuals to pool resources through a Collective Investment Scheme (CIS) known in capital markets as a Real Estate Investment Trust

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Source: Business Daily

Cosby, Bill (1937-- )

William Henry Cosby, Jr., one of Americas most influentialand successful entertainers, was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on July 12,1937 to William Henry, a US Navy cook, and Anna Pearl Cosby, a maid. The family struggled financially, and a moveinto Philadelphias crime-ridden Richard Allen

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Source: Black Past

Law Matters: Celebrating African-Americans' contributions to Missouri's justice system

Walter Farmer was the first African-American to serve in a judicial capacity in Missouri when he was appointed special judge in the St. Louis municipal court at the beginning of the 20th

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Source: African Americans News Monitoring Service & Press Release Distribution - EIN News

'You don't want to criminalise the country' - NPA says it doesn't prosecute 25% of lockdown cases

The National Prosecuting Authority has declined to prosecute about 25% of lockdown

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Rwanda: Lawyers Protest Refusal By Ugandan Court to Recognise Rwanda Law Practice Diploma

The Ugandan high court recently ruled that a person who obtains a post graduate diploma in legal practice from Rwanda is not eligible to enroll as an advocate in Uganda, sparking criticism from the Rwanda Law

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Source: allAfrica.com

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