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Chad: Moussa Faki Retains Top AU Post

[East African] Chadian Moussa Faki Mahamat has been re-elected chairperson of the African Union Commission, getting an endorsement from nearly all voting members of the continental bloc.

Source: allAfrica.com

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(1897) Mary Church Terrell, “In Union There is Strength,”

Born in Memphis in 1863 and an activist until her death in 1954, Mary Eliza Church Terrell has been called a living link between the era of the Emancipation Proclamation and the modern civil rights movement. Terrell was particularly active in the Washington, D.C. area. From 1895 to 1911, for

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Dispelling the Myths about the Gallant Role of Black Female Suffragists

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Dawn M. Jones Installed As 58th President Of State Bar of Georgia

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