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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
In the following article University of Oregon historian Carlos Aguirre describes the self-taught poet, writer, and folklorist Nicomedes Santa Cruz, one of the understudied black intellectual leaders in Peru and Latin
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Sierra Leone Creole people
The Sierra Leone Creole people (or Krio people) is an ethnic group in Sierra Leone. The Creole people are descendants of freed African American, West Indian and Liberated African slaves who settled in the Western Area of Sierra Leone between 1787 and about 1885. The colony was established by the
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W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois , in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana), American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in
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DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)
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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial
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Cote divoire
National name: République de Côte dlvoire
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Paul Cuffee
Not to be confused with the Reverend Paul Cuffee (1754-1812), who is honored on the liturgical Calendar of the Episcopal Church
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, each generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afro-Asiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharan
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The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was the first significant gathering of independent and soon-to-be independent nations in Asia and
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Granville T Woods - African American Inventor
Born in Columbus, Ohio on April 23, 1856, Granville T. Woods dedicated his life to developing a variety of inventions relating to the railroad
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Alphabetical List of All African Countries
Below is an alphabetical list of all African countries, along with capitals and the state names as they are known within each country. In addition to the 54 sovereign states in Africa, the list also includes the two islands still governed by European states and Western Sahara, which is recognized
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Idris Elba
Idris Elba , in full Idrissa Akuna Elba (born September 6, 1972, London, England), British actor who was perhaps best known for his work on the television series The Wire and
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Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes was an African-American Singer-Songwriter, producer and actor. Hayes is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Hayes is also a three time Grammy Award
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Côte d'Ivoire
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In the Land of Czars and Commissars: African Americans in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Post-Soviet Russia, 1824-2015
It was in May 1824 that Nancy Gardner Prince, rescued from alife of poverty and hardship in Massachusetts through a recent marriage, foundherself in a most surreal circumstance unlike any previously experienced by anAfrican American in this region of the world. After recently arriving in
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2016 Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America Announced by Savoy Magazine
Savoy Magazine, a leading African-American lifestyle publication, showcases its 2016 “Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America.” The issue also features an exclusive interview with John W. Thompson, Microsoft Chairman and CEO of Virtual
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Bobby J. Griffin
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Best African Players in European Football (Soccer)
The most successful African soccer player of all time and one of the supreme strikers of the last 10 years, Eto’o made a headline grabbing move to Anzhi Makhachkala in August 2011. The ambitious Russian club wanted a marquee signing and Eto’o’s consistency for Mallorca, Barcelona and Inter Milan
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo , in full Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (born March 23, 1942, Abeadzi Kyiakor, near Saltpond, Gold Coast [now Ghana]), Ghanaian writer whose work, written in English, emphasized the paradoxical position of the modern African
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Bandung Conference, 1955
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African nations.  On April 18 to 24, 1955, twenty-nine representatives of nations from Africa and Asia came together in Bandung, Indonesia, to promote African and Asian economic
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Royal African Company
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
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From Opera, Minstrelsy and Ragtime to Social Justice: An Overview of African American Performers at Carnegie Hall, 1892-1943
“It is probable that this hall will intertwine itself with the history of our country,” said Andrew Carnegie in 1890, when he laid the cornerstone of the building that would become Carnegie Hall.  In keeping with Carnegie’s firm belief in egalitarianism and meritocracy, the hall that
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Bass, Pelosi Congressional Delegation Conclude Historic Trip to Ghana to Mark ‘The Year of Return’
Led by Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairwoman Karen Bass, Speaker Pelosi and 13 Members of the CBC concluded the historic trip to Ghana with a high-level meeting with Speaker Aaron Mike Oquaye and bipartisan leaders of the Ghanaian
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Efua Sutherland
Efua Sutherland , (born June 27, 1924, Cape Coast, Gold Coast [now in Ghana]—died January 22, 1996), Ghanaian playwright, poet, teacher, and children’s author, who founded the Drama Studio in Accra (now the Writers’ Workshop in the Institute of African Studies, University of
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I come to you from a liberated South Africa, a nation that many of you helped to set free. I come from a continent about which more is written but less is understood; so I come with a message that is straight-forward and simple. Like the Apostle Paul on his return from the provinces, I come to
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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created by the Treaty of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, on 28 May 1975. It was created to promote economic trade, national cooperation, and monetary union, for growth and development throughout West
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25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Black History Studies
Marcus Garvey worked at the offices of the African Times and Orient Review journal under the leadership of Duse Mohammed Ali, the famous Black nationalist and
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