Holly, James Theodore (1829-1911) - Death

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Holly, James Theodore (1829-1911) - Death

James Theodore Holly died in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 13, 1911.

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Jazz C Gobert still not fully recovered from COVID-19

Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to reportedly test positive for COVID-19 and who drew the ire of numerous people when the league initially suspended the season, says he is still not fully recovered more than three months after his original

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans[3]) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[4] [5] The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved

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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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Geography and Overview of the Caribbean Nation of Haiti

Population: 9,035,536 (July 2009

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The Hyped Up Jordan X Dior Apparel Collection Finally Has A Release Date

According to WWD, the much anticipated $2,000 Air Jordan 1 X Dior is expected to drop soon and will “take the form of an exclusive online

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Who Is Black In America (Full Show, No Commercials)

Great show that touches on a MAJOR issue that effects far more people than the few that are willing to admit

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Women’s game needs investment, not ‘dubious’ innovations –Pandey

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Women’s cricket needs better marketing and investment to grow, and not “dubious” innovations like a shorter pitch or smaller boundaries, said India pace bowler Shikha Pandey on

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Toussaint L'Ouverture, François Dominique

Toussaint LOuverture, François Dominique fräNswä´ dômēnēk´ to͞osăN´ lo͞ovĕrtür´ [key], c.1744–1803, Haitian patriot and martyr. A self-educated slave freed shortly before the uprising in 1791, he joined the black rebellion to liberate the slaves and became its organizational genius. Rapidly rising

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Knox, Clinton E. (1908–1980)

Clinton E. Knox was born May 5, 1908, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of five children born to Estella Briggs Knox and William J. Knox Sr. Knox’s older brother, William J. Knox, Jr., was one of the scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II. His other

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Oct

14

1980

Young, Jr., Perry (1919-1998)

Perry Young, Jr, an airplane and helicopter pilot, was the first African American person to be hired by a commercial airline with regularly scheduled passenger flights. Young was born to his parents Henry Young, Sr. and Edith Lucille Young on March 12, 1919 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. His father

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Name at birth: Nel Ust Wycliffe Jean

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Afro-Puerto Ricans

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LisaRaye Claps Back At Turks And Caicos Islanders Who Bashed Her On Social Media

LisaRaye is defending herself after people took her comments about helping to improve Turks and Caicos as the star saying she is the reason the island is successful and well

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Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett

Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett becomes the first African American to serve in a diplomatic post for the U.S. (Consul-General to Haiti and the Dominican Republic)

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Apr

16

1869

After numerous delays, Haiti held elections on Feb. 7, 2006. The elections, backed by 9,000 United Nations troops, were seen as a crucial step in returning Haiti to some semblance of stability. Former prime minister and Aristide protegé René Préval, very popular among the poor, was seen as the

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The largest island of the West Indies group (equal in area to Pennsylvania), Cuba is also the westernmost—just west of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and 90 mi (145 km) south of Key West, Fla., at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. The island is mountainous in the southeast and

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Anti-slavery redirects here. For the British NGO working for the eradication of slavery, see Anti-Slavery

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Aug

28

1833

Geography of Jamaica

Population: 2,847,232 (July 2010

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Haitian emigration

Haitian emigration was a movement to describe the emigration of free blacks from the United States to settle in Haiti in the early 19th

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Love, Mia (1975 - )

Congresswoman Mia Love represents Utahs 4th Congressional District and is the first black Republican woman and the first Haitian-American elected to the United States Congress. She is also the first black person elected to Congress in

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Dec

6

1975

Cam Newton signs 1-year deal with the Patriots

Cam Newton in 2019 (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty

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Repatriation flights from Cuba being organized - Stabroek News

And now for some good news. There is a glimmer of hope that the four boxers stranded in Cuba since March 19 will soon be finally back on Guyanese soil. The article Repatriation flights from Cuba being organized appeared first on Stabroek News.

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America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot

America’s Black Ambassadors: A HistoricalSnapshot

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Oct

29

1845

Freedom’s Journal (1827-1829)

Freedom’s Journal was the first African American owned and operated newspaper in the United States. A weekly four column publication printed every Friday, Freedom’s Journal was founded by free born African Americans John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish on March 16, 1827 in New York City, New York. The

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Mar

16

1827

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

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Vanessa Williams is Making a Difference with Thousands of Black Mayors | Afro

Vanessa R. Williams has earned the description of the “glue that holds 650 African American mayors

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Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)

John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, Langston took his surname from his mother, Lucy

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Nov

15

1897

(1886) T. Thomas Fortune, “The Present Relations of Labor and Capitol”

In 1886, T. Thomas Fortune, born enslaved in Florida thirty years earlier, was already a newspaper owner and publisher in New York City and author of Black and White: Land, Labor and Politics in the Old South (1884), the first significant work to argue that class conflict rather than racial strife

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May

1

1886

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand zhän´ bĕrtränd´ ä˝rēstēd´ [key], 1953–, president of Haiti (1991, 1994–96, 2001–4). A radical Catholic priest who defended liberation theology , he worked among Haitis poor and was part of a group of progressive priests who opposed the Duvalier dictatorship. He studied

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One year too long - PM laments tedious delays in procurement practices

Holness was speaking on Thursday at the commissioning of a $33-million, 110-ft-long bridge spanning the Wag Water River and which links Airy Castle, Bowden Hill, and Stony Hill in the St Andrew West Rural constituency represented by Juliet

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