Green kicks off backyard gardening campaign

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Green kicks off backyard gardening campaign

Jamaicans living in urban and suburban communities are being encouraged to dig into the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ backyard gardening programme, which is looking to boost vegetable production and increase consumption of locally grown...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans. By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa. One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister

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Philip R. Cousin (1933-).

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Silver Bluff Baptist Church [South Carolina] (1773- )

The first black Baptist congregation in South Carolina was formed in 1773 on the Galphin Plantation near Silver Bluff, 14 miles northwest of Savannah, Georgia. The church was founded jointly by Rev. Wait Palmer, a white Connecticut minister, and African American pastor, George Liele. The first

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(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”

On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875. His speech appears

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Mitchell, Parren James (1922-2007)

Parren James Mitchell was a civil rights activist, the first African American elected to Congress from the South since 1898, and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Born in 1922, Mitchell grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended public schools there. His father was a waiter

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Never has the sport of boxing seen such an exhaustive transformation as that in the career of George Edward Foreman, who started off as a world-renowned boxer and later became an ordained Christian minister. Born in Marshall, Texas on January 10, 1949, the 6 foot 3 inch tall American has a lot of

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1949

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1935

William D. Crum

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13

1910

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1951

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1861

Tomlinson, Maurice (1971- )

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1925

Clarke, Hansen Hashem (1957- )

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(1963) John Lewis, “We Must Free Ourselves”

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14

1966

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1868

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10

1964

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1841

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18

1753

William H Heard

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1895

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