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Ugandans Join Global Push to Rename Colonial-Era Landmarks
Recognise historical figures who promote the values of freedom, dignity, peace and justice, says Ugandan lawyer
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Rwanda court sentences ex-mayor to life for role in genocide
Rwanda's High Court on Thursday sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, which included leading attacks that resulted in the deaths of around 25 000 ethnic Tutsis in his
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Gov. George Wallace granted a full pardon to Clarence (Willie) Norris, the last known survivor of the nine Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 of the alleged rape of two white women on a freight train.
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James Cameron, Founder Black Holocaust Musem born
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Kenyans Desperate After Mass Shack Evictions
Struggling with hunger, Covid-19 and death threats, the residents of Nairobi's Kariobangi shack settlement are speaking out against state demolitions that left thousands
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Ethiopia: Security Forces 'Must Face Justice for Horrific Human Rights Violations' - New Report
At least 10,000 people were arbitrarily arrested and detained last year as part of the government's crackdown on armed attacks and violence in Oromia Region
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Veasey, Marc (1971– )
Veasey is a lifelong resident of Fort Worth, Texas, having been born there on January 3, 1971. His parents, Joseph and Connie Veasey, divorced when he was ten, prompting Marc, his brother Ryan, and his mother to move in with his maternal grandmother. Prior to this move, the family had been
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1971
Rwanda: What Next After Arrest of Genocide Fugitive Kabuga?
Felicien Kabuga, one of the leading suspected architects of the Genocide against the Tutsi was arrested Saturday in a Paris suburb after nearly 26 years on the run, the International Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
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Sudan: Accused Darfur War Criminal Ali Kushayb in ICC Custody
A former militia leader accused of war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region is now in the custody of the International Criminal
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Burundi: Nkurunziza Leaves a Mixed Legacy
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died of a heart attack aged 55 according to an official statement released on Tuesday, has left behind a mixed
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Sudan
Sudan, in northeast Africa, measures about one-fourth the size of the United States. Its neighbors are Chad and the Central African Republic on the west, Egypt and Libya on the north, Ethiopia and Eritrea on the east, and South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo on the
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Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy , (born October 15, 1900, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died September 13, 1987, Beverly Hills, California), American motion-picture director whose wide variety of films included dramas, romances, epics, comedies, and musicals. He also produced films, including the classic The
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1987
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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Burundi sacks WHO officials ahead of May 20 polls
Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization’s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political
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Joy, tears in Darfur as International Criminal Court arrests wanted war crimes suspect
Kushayb, a senior Janjaweed commander in the early years of the conflict, was the target of a 2007 ICC arrest warrant on multiple counts including rape, murder and
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What About Our Children?
In mid-May 2020, the Center of Disease Control issued a report which states, in
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African American History and Women Timeline 1700-1799
[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1700-1799 New York passed a law prohibiting public gatherings by three or more enslaved Africans, prohibiting testimony in court by enslaved Africans against white colonists, and prohibiting trade with enslaved Africans. Virginia Slave Codes of 1
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But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The
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1998
Outrage as hoodlums rape, kill college student in Nigeria [PRESS REVIEW]
On the Punch newspaper, we find the headline Outrage as hoodlums rape, kill UNIBEN undergraduate in
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History of Black Civil Rights in America
The history of black civil rights is the story of Americas caste system. It is the story of how for centuries upper-class whites made African Americans into a slave class, easily identifiable because of their dark skin, and then reaped the benefits—sometimes using law, sometimes using
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2015
Pierre Nkurunziza: Burundi rebel leader turned controversial president
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza died of a heart attack, according to a government statement released June 9, a day after he passed away in a local
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Nigeria: Monarch, Prince, One Other Remanded for Defiling 14-Year-Old Girl
A royal father, David Ogungbemi, 62;his son, Gbenga 21, and one Sarafa Olayiwola were, yesterday, remanded in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl in Ilare-Ijesha, Osun
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African-American Playwrights
Playwright August Wilson once said, For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something
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Black America speaks. America should listen.
30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota still hasn’t gotten an anti-lynching law through Congress
In 1900, the first anti-lynching bill was introduced by Rep. George White, an African
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Willie McGee: Executed in "Traveling" Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
Willie McGee: Executed in “Traveling” Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
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We are all horrified, but only White people have luxury of being shocked –
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South Africa: Constitutional Court Ruling Heralds Changes to South Africa's Electoral System
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