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Abd al-Aziz IV

Abd al-Hafiz

Abd al-Kader

Abd al-Mumin

Abd al-Qadir

Abd Allah ibn Yasin

Abd ar-Rahman

Abd el-Krim

Ahmad al-Mansur

Barbarossa

Bashir, Omar Hassan Ahmed al-

Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine

Ben Bella, Ahmed

Bendjedid, Chadli

Boumedienne, Houari

Bourguiba, Habib

Bouteflika,

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Woods, Tiger | FactMonster

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Trump in Dallas, snubs 3 top African-American law enforcers

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Dallas on Thursday for a discussion on race and

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Kerry Washington

Actress Kerry Washington is probably best known for her Emmy-nominated role in the cable TV series Scandal -- she plays Olivia Pope, a business fixer in Washington, D.C. politics. A native of New York, she studied liberal arts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and graduated in

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COVID-19 hospital seeks US$3,4 million kitty

EKUSILENI Medical Centre is struggling to raise US$3,4 million needed to upgrade the 200-bed specialist facility to house COVID-19 patients from

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Martin Luther King Quiz

Martin Luther King Quiz | FactMonster

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Student Athlete of the Week: Adam McKinney

Dorsey senior Adam McKinney is a dual-sport athlete, playing football at Santee and joining the Dorsey Dons in time for track

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Abd el-Krim was born in the small settlement of Ajdir, across Alhucemas Bay from the Spanish army’s island presidio of Peñón de Alhucemas. Ajdir belonged to the Aït Youssef Ou Ali faction of the Beni Urriaguel family, the largest and most-populous Berber group in the Rif. Abd el-Krim’s father was

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Niger | FactMonster

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African Physical Geography

African Physical Geography | FactMonster

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Kenya: The Urban Planner's Pedestrian Dream

Sherlyne Omangi, 26, is an urban environmental planner working at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Africa Centre (SEI-Africa) on Sustainable Urbanisation

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Olajuwon, Hakeem

Olajuwon, Hakeem | FactMonster

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African-American History Quiz

African-American History Quiz | FactMonster

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Charles Mingus was a 20th century jazz musician whose reputation as a great bassist is matched by his influence as a great composer of what has been called orchestral jazz. He was musically trained in public schools and Christian churches in Los Angeles, where he went from trombone to cello to

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Tunisia, at the northernmost bulge of Africa, thrusts out toward Sicily to mark the division between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. Twice the size of South Carolina, it is bordered on the west by Algeria and by Libya on the south. Coastal plains on the east rise to a north-south

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Zambezi | FactMonster

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Ossietzky, Carl von

Ossietzky, Carl von | FactMonster

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Time’s Up: Child care providers are not America’s mammy

Slavery is over, but women continue to be a vital part of the economy, and we all agree that early learning is critical, so why is the child care system collapsing under the weight of the COVID-19

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Benjamin Banneker

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In December 2010, a college graduate who worked as a street vendor set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid to protest unemployment, corruption and the continued police state. A spate of other protests followed and spread throughout the country. As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of

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Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the

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Tuskegee University

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Mahalia Jackson

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