Lucius Banda: Musician, politician who disturbed disturbing calm

WCPL set for prime time in 2024, CPL launches new logos - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

IN an effort to continue reinventing themselves the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) launched a new logo for the 2024 men's and women's tournament and in addition to that, will play the Massy Women's CPL (WCPL) separately, giving the women's cricketers a chance to stand out on their own. The la

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Joseph Lawson Howze

Joseph Lawson Howze installed as bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi.

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Jun

6

1977

Namibia: Foreigners Implicated in Illegal Lead Mining Ring

[Namibian] A report by three officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy says Chinese nationals working with locals in the Kunene region are conducting illegal lead mining exploration in villages in the Epupa constituency.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Protesters mass near White House for 2nd day

The Latest on the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer pressed a knee on his neck (all times

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Death of James Augustine Healy

Death of James Augustine Healy (70), Black Roman Catholic bishop, Portland, Maine.

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Aug

5

1900

Papa Wemba

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Apr

24

2016

President Donald Trump is a Champion of the Catholic Faith.

34 years later, I can’t help but think of how President Trump has been a champion for the Catholic

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Kiratiana’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival

Many think Rio de Janeiro only has an elaborate Samba school parade every year that features half-naked

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Source: The Christian Recorder

Washington Archbishop Condemns Trump's Visit To Catholic Shrine

Washington’s Roman Catholic archbishop has roundly criticized President Donald Trump’s visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine on

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African Slave Traders: A History

During the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans did not have the power to invade African states or kidnap African slaves at will. For the most part, the 12.5 million slaves transported across the Atlantic Ocean were purchased from African slave traders. It is a piece of the triangle

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Men charged over gun seized during traffic stop

The police have charged two Kingston men over the seizure of a loaded gun during a traffic stop along Spanish Town Road. Charged are 27-year-old taxi operator Patrick Bishop and 28-year-old deliveryman Carlos Johns. They are charged with possession...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

KIEREINI: As fury rages over US police, let’s also look in the

After working a few odd jobs, Amin was recruited into the King’s African Rifles (KAR) of the British Colonial Army in 1946 as an assistant

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Antigua and barbuda

Current government officials

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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)

Many Europeans have long exhibited a fascination with the African continent. However their knowledge of Africa was often incorrect or incomplete. In the following article University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the Italian idea of Africa during the 15th and 16th

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Kerby Jean-Raymond Is Inviting You To “Loot” Pyer Moss For A Small Price

If you thought in-person shopping on Black Friday was mayhem, Pyer Moss is ready to up the ante. The Brooklyn-born brand took to Instagram last night to announce what it's calling 'The Loot Out' sale in honor of its 10-year anniversary. The sale takes note of dupe culture and the recent string of

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Afro-Puerto Ricans

revolt

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Uganda: Shs30b Needed to Revamp Kilembe Mines Hospital

Authorities at Kilembe Mines Hospital in Kasese District have said they need more than Shs30 billion to revamp the facility after several of its key equipment were destroyed by flash floods last

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Haitian Invasions and Occupation of Santo Domingo (1801-1844)

The Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) would be the target of aggression from its Hispaniola neighbor, French-ruled Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), in the early nineteenth century culminating in a twenty-two year occupation which would have long term consequences for both

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Source: Black Past

Feb

27

1844

Fred Jones

Fred McKinley Jones is certainly one of the most important Black inventors ever based on the sheer number of inventions he formulated as well as their

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This Day in History — June 11

2009: The World Health Organization says swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration that speeds vaccine production and spurs government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41

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Cape verde

National name: República de Cabo Verde

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Ellison, Keith M. (1963- )

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison was born on August 4, 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised Catholic in a middle class family which included five sons to a father who was a psychiatrist and a mother who was a social worker. Since childhood Ellison was involved with the civil rights

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Source: Black Past

Aug

4

1963

Guyanese Fr John Persaud appointed Catholic Bishop of Mandeville

Father (Fr) John Persaud from Guyana, has been appointed Bishop of the Catholic Church in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Chenjerai Hove

Chenjerai Hove, (born Feb. 9, 1956, Mazvihwa, near Zvishavane, Southern Rhodesia [now in Zimbabwe]—died July 12, 2015, Stavanger, Nor.), Zimbabwean novelist, poet, and essayist who explored the lives of ordinary people in his homeland under British colonial rule and during Pres. Robert

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Source: Brittanica

Jul

12

2015

Civil rights movements

Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations they have been characterized by nonviolent protests, or have taken the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change

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Where are the nuns?

HEAD of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jamaica, Archbishop Kenneth Richards, has expressed concern about the absence of religious leaders in Catholic schools across the island, a staple which he says is responsible for the academic excellence and discipline in these

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Alfonso I [King] (?- 1543)

Born Nzinga Mbemba, King Alfonso I was the leader of theKongolese people in the early part of the 16th Century. Mbemba developed a strong trade relationship withthe Portuguese and adopted Catholicism as a result of this relationship. Theinfluence of the Catholic faith reached every aspect of the

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Marie Laveau, the "Queen of the Voodoos,"

Marie Laveau, the Queen of the Voodoos, was dethroned because of old

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Jun

7

1868

Zambia

Republic of Zambia

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Rwanda

National name: Repubulika yu Rwanda

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