Leontyne Price Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer

Black Lives Matter activists have made their point and won millions of converts since May

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Beyoncé Releases Single 'Black Parade,' Creates Campaign in Support of Black Business

Beyoncé dropped a two-for-one treat in celebration of Juneteenth and all Black everything when she released a single, “Black Parade,” and debuted an initiative of the same name that’s promoting Black

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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth began life as a slave and ended it as a celebrated anti-slavery activist. She was born in New York and was sold several times before escaping to freedom with an infant daughter in 1827. She worked as a housekeeper, lived in a religious commune, and eventually became a travelling

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‘Do you think Juneteenth should be a national holiday?’

“Yes, because it makes [people] recognize what history was and what we had to go through, how we were freed as slaves and the freedom that we had as black

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Black Men’s Solidarity event draws hundreds to Freedom Corner

The Black men’s solidarity event brought hundreds of local Black men together at Freedom

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OPINION | Anant Singh: All lives matter, especially black lives

At the time, I did several local and national radio interviews and what struck me most was the strong and powerful voice of black people across America who had seen the film and compared the atrocity of what we were experiencing in South Africa to their own even during those

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer – Voice and Viewpoint

One woman led hundreds down Pennsylvania Avenue while belting Beyoncé’s “Freedom” anthem at the top of her lungs through a bullhorn.After weeks of media coverage about rioters and looters who hijacked protests following George Floyd’s death, Washington D.C. held its breath as Juneteenth marches

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer

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The Gambia denies plan to decriminalise homosexuality

The Gambia said on Tuesday that it would neither decriminalise homosexuality nor review its laws, following weeks of controversy over the issue in the tiny West African

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Fighting for Freedom on Both Sides of the American Revolution

Alan Gilbert, University of Denver political scientist and anti-racist activist, is the author of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, one of the few works that examines the free and enslaved blacks who joined the American Patriots and the British

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Chicago Children’s Choir honors Juneteenth with virtual concert | The Crusader Newspaper Group

A New Freedom: Black Voices Honoring Juneteenth in a Time of Struggle

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Inspirational Nelson Mandela Quotes

We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy … we have condemned racialism no matter by whom it is

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Carlo Redwood leaving Flow

CARLO Redwood, marketing director at communications and entertainment provider, Flow, is set to depart the organisation on June 30, the company announced in a press release

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New York declares Juneteenth a paid holiday for state employees | New York Carib News

Yesterday, New York’s governor Andrew Cuomo, signed an executive order recognizing Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the

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World renowed opera singer

World renowed opera singer, Leontyne Price, makes her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House

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Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a retired professional boxer and ex-world heavyweight champion. He was born on October 19, 1962 in Atmore, Alabama. He was the youngest of 9 children and began boxing at the age of 12 when he won the Boys Club boxing tournament. By the age of 13, he competed in the Junior

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Cyber Security Bill must protect all: ICT ex-minister

FORMER Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira (Nyanga South MP) yesterday claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was the most abused person on social media while justifying the need to pass the Cyber Security and Data Protection

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Malawi: Chilima Says No Danger of Rigging in Malawi Fresh Elections

The country's estranged Vice-president Saulos Chilima, who is also running mate to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, has reassured the nation that there will be no rigging in the court-sanctioned fresh presidential

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Ice Cube Supports Charlamagne and Diddy Against Biden Democrats

According to Diddy, the blacks should refrain from supporting Joe Biden and other democrats until the challenges the black communities

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers in D.C. confound predictions of violence

After weeks of media coverage about rioters and looters who hijacked protests following George Floyd’s death, Washington D.C. held its breath as Juneteenth marches wound up their springs on

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Leontyne Price makes her farewell appearance

Leontyne Price makes her farewell appearance with the Metropolitan Opera singing the title role of Aida.

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Ellis, William Henry (1864-1923)

William Henry Ellis, an African American businessman who challenged racial constructs in the United States by “passing” as Hispanic, was born a slave to Charles and Margaret Ellis on June 15, 1864. His parents had been brought by Joseph Weisiger from Kentucky to Texas in 1853. In 1870

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Corona cuts macadamia gate prices by 75pc

Corona cuts macadamia gate prices by 75 percent

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Klobuchar tells Biden to pick woman of color as VP, withdraws consideration

Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced on Thursday evening that she has withdrawn her name from consideration as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden‘s potential running mate, and has urged him to instead choose a woman of

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On Juneteenth: A Manifesto

Living life in a body coated with oils and butters, relief from the

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Cameroon: Magazine Review - Paul Biya's Listening Ear

The 66-page full-colour glossy edition with pictures of President Paul Biya and First Lady Chantal Biya, is divided into seven

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Will Smith Gets Emotional As He Remembers Becoming A Dad At 24

He recently opened up about that time during a Father’s Day episode of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch show Red Table

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Mali: As Mali Fights Coronavirus, Cotton Farmers Fear Loss of Climate Aid

Bamako — As cotton price tumbles during pandemic, farmers worry the state support they rely on to grow food in a warming climate will dry up

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Virginia E. Walker Broughton: Author and Baptist Missionary

Virginia E. Walker Broughton was an African American author and Baptist

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