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Rwandan Police peacekeepers in South Sudan will continue to execute their peacekeeping mandate under strengthened measures to observe the World Health Organization (WHO) safety guidelines against the novel
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(1836) James Forten, Jr. “Put on the Armour of Righteousness”
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14
1836
Nation of Islam
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Wellington E. Webb
Wellington E. Webb is President of Webb Group International, an economic development and public relations consulting
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Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )
Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware
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Stith, Charles R. (1949- )
Ambassador Charles Richard Stith, a diplomat, minister, professor, and urban reformer, presently serves as the Director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University in Massachusetts. In 1998, President Bill Clinton named him ambassador to
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1949
Towns, Edolphus (1934- )
Currently in his 13th term in Congress, Edolphus Towns is a Democratic Representative from the State of New York.  Towns was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina on July 21, 1934, and attended the public schools of Chadbourn before graduating with a B.S. degree from North Carolina Agricultural and
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1934
Somalia: UN Expresses Outrage Over Killing of Aid Workers Bal'ad District
An international outcry has greeting the abduction and killing of nine health care workers whose bodies were dumped along
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Kirk, Ronald (1954-- )
Ronald Ron Kirk is the U.S. Trade Representative for U.S. President Barack Obama.  Kirk was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 18, 2009, and officially sworn in two days later.  Kirk is the 16th trade representative and the first African American to hold the Cabinet-level post.  As trade
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Slavery in Oregon: The Reuben Shipley Saga
Few Americans realize that the institution of slavery reached the Pacific Northwest in the two decades before the Civil War.  A small number of the white settlers who followed the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City brought bondservants.  Oregon historian R. Gregory
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1853
Sewell, Terri (1965- ) - Birthday
Representative for Alabama’s 7th district, was born January 1, 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama to Andrew and Nancy Sewell.
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1965
Jones, Stephanie Tubbs (1949-2008)
Currently in the political spotlight for her steadfast support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Stephanie Tubbs Jones is a Democratic Representative of the state of Ohio. She was born on September 10, 1949 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and attended the county’s public schools
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Black, Latino officials call for police reforms
Members of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, along with U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, gathered on the steps of the State House June 2 to advocate for police reform in the wake of George
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Chuck to seek closure to 2015 INDECOM review in Parliament
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Lee, Barbara J. (1946 - )
California Congresswoman Barbara Jean Lee, a self-described “Army brat,” has consistently been one of the most outspoken critics of the Iraq War.  She has also called for the creation of a Department of Peace as a cabinet level agency in the federal
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Early History of African American Inventors
Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, is believed to have been the first African-American inventor to receive a patent for an invention. He was 30 years old when he was granted a patent for a dry-cleaning process. Jennings was a free tradesman and operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City. His
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Zimbabwe: 2014 MDC-T National Council Backing Chamisa Illegal - Mwonzora
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Africa: World Has Failed to Protect 1 Billion Children From Violence, Sexual Abuse - UN Warns
The report is the first of its kind, charting progress in 155 countries against the "INSPIRE" framework, a set of seven strategies for preventing and responding to violence against
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Chicago police officers under fire for napping, eating popcorn during looting
A group of Chicago police officers is under fire after being caught on camera lounging in the burglarized office of a U.S. congressman, amid civil unrest in the
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Kenya budgets to fight locusts, floods and virus
Kenya has allocated Ksh48 billion ($480 million) to agriculture, and an additional Ksh4.3 billion ($43 million) from the World Bank has been set aside to combat the spread of the desert
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NGOGA: Resolution on genocide clarity over the massacre
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Uganda: Judges Decline to Conditionally Release Ongwen As He Awaits Judgment
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African-American businesses
African-American businesses, also known as black-owned businesses or black businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865. Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards. By
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Tunisia: FM Holds Talks With UNHCR Representative in Tunis
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Thaddeus Stevens a Powerful U.S. Congressman
Thaddeus Stevens, powerful U.S. congressman, urged confiscation of estates of Confederate leaders and the distribution of land to adult freedmen in forty-acre lots.
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Hurd, Will (1977– )
William Ballard Hurd, the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 23rd Congressional District, was the first African American Republican ever to be elected to congress from the state of Texas. Hurd assumed office on January 3, 2015, representing a district that spans a large portion of the U.S.-Mexico
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Western Sahara: EU Donates €5.3mn to Sahrawi Refugees
Algiers — The European Union (EU) has recently donated €5.3 million to the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) to meet the food needs of thousands of Sahrawi refugees, fight hunger and ensure their food
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