France abolishes slavery.

Nigeria: 10 Years After UNEP Report, Ogoniland Remains Heavily Contaminated - Report

Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other oil companies in the Niger Delta, work has begun on only 11 per cent of planned sites while vast areas remain heavily contaminated, according to a new investigation by four

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Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers’ Quest For Racial Equality Still Resonates

UPDATED: 3:25 p.m. ET, June 12, 2020

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Speculation grows over date of next election in Sierra Leone

It will be recalled that the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Candidate, Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio, and the All Peoples Congress (APC) Candidate, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara, emerged first and second respectively, during the first round of the fiercely contested presidential election held

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Hunt, William Henry (1863-1951)

William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave. Although June 29 might have been his actual day

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Haitian Revolution

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Shereni predicts Tino's success

FORMER Zimbabwe international football star Harlington Shereni believes that Tino Kadewere has all the attributes to succeed in the French League where he will be featuring for Ligue 1 giants Olympique Lyonnais, commonly known as

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of slave narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical

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Antioch Baptist Church, San Jose, California (1893- )

Organized on August 2, 1893 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hawkins, Antioch Baptist Church was the first African American Baptist church in San Jose, California. Rev. C.C. Laws was called as the first pastor, requesting a salary of $10.00 a month with board, with the provision that as the church

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The UK is on a collision course with China

Boris Johnson

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LETTERS: Goodwill needed to tackle dirty coal plants

Africa and Kenya for that matter don’t have to follow the path developed nations took over 130 years ago to power their economies through coal

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Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta , (born December 25, 1857, Icolo-e-Bengo, Angola—died March 2, 1894, Barra do Cuanza, Angola), Angolan poet, novelist, journalist, pedagogue, historian, philologist, and folklorist whose creative zeal and research in the late 19th century helped establish in Angola

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Louisiana's Code Noir (1724)

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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”

In 1848 Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston on behalf of his five year old daughter, Sarah, who was denied admission to schools in her neighborhood and instead assigned to the lone all-black school in the city. Two attorneys, Robert Morris, one of the first black lawyers in

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Covid-19 wrap: Global deaths top 385 000, Senegal eases curfew and Armenia hospitals overwhelmed

FOLLOW LIVE | Lockdown: Loss of tax revenue outweighs harm caused by cigarettes, says govt on tobacco ban

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St. Pete celebrates Juneteenth

It all started when Terri Lipsey Scott, executive director of the Carter G. Woodson African American Museum, decided a Black Lives Matter mural should sit in front of the museum at 2240 9th Ave. S and be revealed on

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Africa: Human Rights Council Holds an Urgent Debate On Current Racially Inspired Human Rights Violations, Systemic Racism, Police Brutality and Violence Against Peaceful Protests

Speakers Urge the Council to Establish an International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement in the United States

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Boris Johnson said colonialism in Africa should never have ended

Opposition MPs in the UK are not happy with Boris Johnson over comments supporting Britain’s colonial activities in

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Haiti

National name: République dHaïti

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This Day in History — June 4

1994: Five Iraqis and a Kuwaiti are sentenced to death in Kuwait for plotting to kill former US President George H W Bush with a car bomb during his visit to Kuwait in

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Why The World Is More Worried Than Ever About A 2nd Wave | The Oklahoma Eagle

A fresh coronavirus outbreak in China, new cases in New Zealand and record infections in parts of the United States show that the pandemic is far from

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ICC prosecutor urges Sudan to transfer Bashir, others to The Hague

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called the surrender of Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb to the war crimes tribunal “a pivotal development” for victims awaiting justice and urged Sudan to hand over former president Omar al-Bashir and two others wanted by the

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Guinea bissau

National name: Républica da Guiné-Bissau

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French Open pushed back a week, ATP and WTA announce August resumption

LONDON, (Reuters) – The re-scheduled French Open has been pushed back a further week and the ATP Tour and WTA Tour have both issued revised calendars as professional tennis gears up to emerge from the shutdown caused by the COVID-19

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(1869) Frederick Douglass Describes The "Composite Nation"

In an 1869 speech in Boston, Frederick Douglass challenged most social observers and politicians (including most African Americans) by advocating the acceptance of Chinese immigration. His argument is presented

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List of African-American inventors and scientists

This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse

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2 Area Players Have Shot At Their Dream In The NFL | Florida Sentinel Bulletin

GREG REAVES …Los Angeles Rams Prospect NAPOLEON MAXWELL …Chicago Bears Prospect With the conclusion of the 2020 NFL Draft and the first fully virtual sports event, two NFL hopefuls have found themselves new

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Kenya: AU Reiterates Backing Kenya in UNSC Vote

The African Union has reiterated endorsing Kenya for the upcoming vote for the UN Security Council seat in what could strengthen Kenya's chances ahead of the election due June

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Africa: How African Diaspora Footballers Juggle the Identity Question

Switching allegiance

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Haiti

The revolution wrecked Haitis economy. Years of strife between the light-skinned mulattos who dominated the economy and the majority black population, plus disputes with neighboring Santo Domingo, continued to hurt the nations development. After a succession of dictatorships, a bankrupt Haiti

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Kenya Celebrates Removal of British Queen Victoria Statue

The statue Britain's Queen Victoria outlasted several of statues from before Kenya's independence from Britain in

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