Valentine’s Day and how it became a $20 billion industry

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Jun

2

1875

Churches ready for service but Webster Memorial urges caution

AS CHURCHES make preparations for almost back-to-normal services following the easing of government restrictions on public gatherings, set to take effect today, one pastor is urging caution, declaring that his congregation will not be heading back to church in

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Five Things You Don't Know About Africa

1. Africa is not

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Uganda

Republic of Uganda

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Some Say If Retail Stores Are Open, Churches Should Be Too. Here's Why It's Not So Simple.

Last week, President Donald Trump called on governors to reopen houses of worship, calling it an “injustice” that that “liquor stores and abortion clinics” were open when churches were

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Harold R

Harold R. Perry became second Black Roman Catholic bishop in U.S. history.

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Jan

16

1966

West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost subregion of Africa. West Africa has been defined as including 18 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, the island nation of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory

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May

8

2006

Uganda: Justice Jb Katutsi On Battling and Reversing Diabetes

It has never been that high since I took a herbal concoction," the 79-year-old asserts, before going into the house to fetch the documents to confirm his history of

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Trinidad and tobago

Current government officials

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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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Aug

4

1963

This Day in History — June 26

1998: US President Bill Clinton opens a State visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years

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Barbados

Current government officials

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas , (born June 23, 1948, Pinpoint, near Savannah, Georgia, U.S.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1991, the second African American to serve on the court. Appointed to replace Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first African American member, Thomas gave

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Jun

23

1948

Joseph Lawson Howze

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

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Jun

6

1977

Mauritius

Current government officials

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Lumumba , in full Patrice Hemery Lumumba (born July 2, 1925, Onalua, Belgian Congo [now the Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died January 1961, Katanga province), African nationalist leader, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June–September 1960). Forced

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Christianity

Christianity | FactMonster

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Algeria

U.S. Department of State Background Note

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere , in full Julius Kambarage Nyerere, also called Mwalimu (Swahili: “Teacher”) (born March 1922, Butiama, Tanganyika—died October 14, 1999, London, England), first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of

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Dec

9

1961

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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Swaziland

Current government officials

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Congo republic

National name: République du Congo

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Holy Cross Catholic Church, Corpus Christi, Texas (1914- )

Holy Cross Catholic Church, the first church for African American Catholics inCorpus Christi, Texas, was organized before the parish obtained a physicalbuilding. Before African Americans in that area had achurch, they attended Saint Patrick’s Church, and some joined the MexicanChurch, Our Lady of

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Sep

16

1917

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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Angola

National name: Republica de Angola

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Saint Frumentius

Saint Frumentius , Amharic Abba Salama (flourished 4th century, feast day October 27 in the Roman Catholic Church; November 30 in Eastern Orthodox churches; December 18th in the Coptic Church), Syrian apostle who worked to spread Christianity throughout Ethiopia. As first bishop of its ancient

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Burundi pays last respect to Nkurunziza ahead of June 26 burial

June 26: Nkurunziza to be buried today

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Accomplishments

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the charismatic leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott at its genesis in 1955, the year-long nonviolent struggle brought King under the scrutiny of a wary and divided nation. However, his

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Eritrea

Current government officials

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Frenchtown, Houston, Texas (1922- )

Frenchtown, a community built in 1922 in Houston, Texas, was constructed by hundreds of Creole descendants of free French, Spanish, and African people living in southwestern Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Coming to Houston for economic opportunities, they settled and created this community

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