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Nancy Pelosi Removes Portraits Of Confederate House Speakers From U.S. Capitol
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Rep. Jim Clyburn Will Lead House Oversight Committee on Coronavirus
During an exclusive live broadcast, Clyburn told National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to impanel a committee after she recalled a similar body selected by President Harry S. Truman after World War
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Atwoli: I’ve no grudge against DP Ruto
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Inside lethal plot against Kindiki
It took a mid-day meeting at State House to seal the fate of Tharaka-Nithi Senator Kithure Kindiki, who on Friday became the first-ever deputy speaker of the Senate to be removed from office through a resolution of the
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, (Pub.L. 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968), also known as the Fair Housing Act, is a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin and made it a federal crime
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(1869) John Willis Menard, “Speech Before the United States House of Representatives”
John Willis Menard, (1838-1893) was the first African American elected to Congress when on November 3, 1868 he received the majority of votes to fill the unexpired term of Louisiana Second District Congressman James Mann. On the strength of the vote Menard went to Washington to be seated. However
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Zimbabwe: Mudzuri Calls Trigger Happy Mwonzora to Order Over Continued Recall of MPs
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Penn's 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harri
Penns 1996 Baccalaureate Speaker is The Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion. Bishop Harris entered the priesthood after a long and successful career in public and community relations in Philadelphia
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Nigeria: Oyo Assembly Passes 90 Bills, Motions in One Year
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Kenya: Purge in Jubilee is Justified, CCM Chief Ruto Now Says
Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) party leader Isaac Ruto has described the Jubilee purge in the Senate and National Assembly leadership as a normal party disciplinary
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(1871) Congressman Robert C. DeLarge, “Speech on the Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment”
Robert Carlos DeLarge served as a Republican member of the U.S. Congress less than a full term. He was elected in 1870 and began his term on March 4, 1871. However he left Congress on January 24, 1873 within two months of the completion of his term when the seat was declared vacant as the result of
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Kenya: Errant Nairobi MCAs Removed From House Committees
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Pierre Nkurunziza: Burundi rebel leader turned controversial president
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Nigeria: How to Resolve Our Crisis - APC Acting National Chair
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Kenyatta Hosts 200 MPs at State House
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Rift Valley leaders divided over Uhuru, Ruto war
A section of Jubilee Party senators and MPs from the Rift Valley — Deputy President William Ruto’s political bastion — are divided over the ruling party’s purge, which has seen some of the DP’s key allies kicked out of plum leadership
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(1955) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., "Speech on Civil Rights"
On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives.  His speech appears
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1955
Kenya: Jubilee Nairobi Assembly Leaders Threaten to Take Up Office By Force
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Trading racism claims, Tennessee House stays in tense divide
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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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Willie Brown
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Ethiopia
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Slavery and the Prison Industrial Complex - Angela Davis
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As people take to the streets to demand justice for the killings of unarmed black women and men, Black Lives Matter advocates, some of whom have been on the front lines, are encouraging people to let their voices be heard at the
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I.D. Shadd
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