Haiti’s New Political Worlds

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Haiti’s New Political Worlds | Public Books

Throughout its history, residents of Haiti, especially those of African descent, imagined and created their own possibilities for new social worlds.

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On TV, the limited series is the hot thing these days. It’s the same on the court, during this coronavirus-compacted NBA season. The Clippers’ back-to-back set in Memphis this week is one of six “miniseries” – as Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins characterized them – on L.A.’s schedule this

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Miguel Diaz-Canel is Cuba's next Communist party leader | New York Carib News

The shift in power away from Cuba's Raul Castro is finally complete. On Monday, the country's Communist Party hierarchy selected Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Raul Castro as leader of Cuba after his retirement announcement last week.

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Wasulu Empire signs treaty with French

Samori, the builder of the Wasulu Empire, signs with the French the treaty of Bisnadugu.

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1887

How Martin Luther King Day Became a Federal Holiday

On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday, effective Jan. 20, 1986. As a result of this bill, Americans commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday on the third Monday in January. Few Americans are aware of the history of Martin Luther

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Central African Republic - Rights Expert Welcomes Transfer of War Crimes Suspect to ICC

[UN News] The handover of a former Central African Republic (CAR) militia leader and war crimes suspect to the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sent a strong warning to rebel groups, political actors and others who thrive on impunity, a UN independent human rights expert said on Wednesday.

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Africa: Five Ways Emojis Have Reflected Covid Culture

[The Conversation Africa] Over the past decade, emojis have become an integral part of the way we communicate, and have attracted attention from scholars in subjects ranging from linguistics to psychology. Just as the pandemic has impacted so many other parts of everyday life, so it's also left its

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New Black-Owned Apparel Line Launched to Help Legalize Being Black

Nationwide — A new Black-owned apparel line called TheRarestShirts.com has launched to help create more awareness about the constant racism, discrimination, and police brutality that African Americans continue to experience across the

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Zimbabwe: A Glimpse Into the President's Eventful Life in 130 Pages

[The Herald] This is a presentation made by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda at the launch of President Mnangagwa's biography "A Life of Sacrifice" at State House on Thursday.

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2020 Was a Year of Loss. Here Are Those We Love And Miss

Compiled by Sydney Melson The Birmingham Times In any year, the deaths of great musicians, Hall of Fame athletes, elected officials, Civil Rights leaders, and others in the public arena are notable. But in 2020—one of the most bizarre years in history and certainly in recent memory—those losses

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Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery;passes law enslaving al

Maryland legally recognizes the institution of slavery; passes law enslaving all imported Africans; freeborn English women who marry black slaves are enslaved, as are the childred of such unions.

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Seven facts about Chadwick Boseman you probably didn't know - Face2Face Africa

Tributes are still pouring in for actor Chadwick Boseman who died on Friday of colon cancer at 43. Boseman’s medical condition was not publicly known. A statement says he was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 and filmed many movies “during and between countless surgeries and

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Two GOP senators post photos of Elijah Cummings instead of John Lewis on social media - L.A. Focus Newspaper

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan's office said they made a mistake after a Facebook post honoring Lewis, the late Georgia congressman, included a picture of Sullivan with Cummings, the Maryland congressman who died in October of 2019, in front of the National Museum of African American History and

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William Levi Dawson

William Levi Dawson is born, first African American representative to chair a committee in Congress.

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1883

Without patients or staff, Madrid opens new $119M hospital - Black News Channel

By IAIN SULLIVAN and ARITZ PARRA Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Spain's capital on Tuesday held a ceremony to open part of a 1,000-bed emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients that critics say is no more than a vanity project, a building with beds not ready to receive patients and

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NNPA President, Chavis, Launches New Public Broadcasting Show Chronicling Black Lives | Muslim Journal

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia With a soulful sound completed by thumping bass and a picturesque view of the wind blowing the American flag over the White House, civil rights icon and National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO

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Students of color affected by lack of digital connection | Afro

By Daryl Moore Special to the AFRO “The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the challenges digitally disconnected students face like nothing else,” Student Internet Equity Coalition Founder Donna Rattley Washington told the AFRO. “With the closing of some 118,000 public and private schools across the

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Mass. is seeing an increase in fatal opioid overdoses, and deaths are surging among Black men - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

"This is the first increase in annual opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts in three years."

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Trinidad: Man seeks help after ‘botched’ heart surgery - Stabroek News

(Trinidad Guardian) A Chaguanas man, who underwent two emergency triple bypass surgeries in less than a year in the private sector at a cost of $250,000, says he is traumatised and in pain after he developed an incisional hernia following the

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National Center for Civil and Human Rights Receives a $17 Million Grant from The Arthur M. Blank Foundation - Atlanta Tribune

By Diane Larche' The National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR) has embarked on a $50 million expansion campaign and $17 million of it will be courtesy of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. Mr. Blank, NCCHR President and CEO Jill Savitt and Chief Operating Officer Donald Byrd met

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Caribbean nationals urged to avoid travel, large gatherings during holidays

WASHINGTON, CMC The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is appealing to Caribbean and other nationals to avoid travel and large gathering during the holidays. On Wednesday, PAHO said that holiday season gatherings and travel involve risks...

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The Mortgage Interest Deduction: Tax Subsidy for The Rich Must Go — The Sacramento Observer

OPINION (GREENLINING INSTITUTE) - Before the pandemic, California battled the highest levels of poverty, income inequality, and the largest unhoused population in the country. The state also placed the second-lowest in homeownership per capita. Now due to COVID-19, California can expect long-term

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At least 23 dead in clash between gangs and police in Venezuelan capital - Stabroek News

CARACAS, (Reuters) - At least 23 people died over the weekend in a clash between police and gangs in Venezuela’s capital Caracas, according to news reports and human rights activists, as the government faces international scrutiny for killings by security

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Arresting child marriage monster in Dowa and Ntchisi districts

In Kaleza Village in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Chiwere in Dowa, 17-year-old Alefa Jeputala is breastfeeding her six-month-old baby while her immediate 16-year-old cousin, Gelo Postini, is carrying her four-month-old pregnancy. Across the river in Kayesa Village, seven girls have

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Prosecutor declines to charge officer who shot Jacob Blake

The Kenosha County District Attorney has declined to file criminal charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake. Rusten Sheskey will not face charges in the shooting of Jacob Blake, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Sheskey, a White

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44 years after the Soweto uprising: We speak to those who were there

The day, celebrated as Youth Day, came to mark a turning point in South Africa's march to democracy, and would spark countrywide protests against the apartheid

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Central African Republic: CAR's Touadéra Says Bozizé Still in Country, Stirring Trouble

[New Times] President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Wednesday, December 30, told journalists that former President, François Bozizé, who is leading a rebel coalition, has not fled the country as claimed by some media reports.

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Constantine: King County Mask Directive To End June 29 - The Seattle Medium

"People across King County have shown what's possible when we work together to keep one another healthy. Now let's finish the task, ensuring that every person in King County can get vaccinated as soon as possible, and defeat this

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A Few Poets in the State You Need to Know

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times Get to know these Birmingham-area poets. Kwoya Fagin Maples Maples, 39, teaches in the creative writing master’s degree program at her alma mater, the University of Alabama, and is the author of “Mend,” a poetry collection that sets out to explore the feelings

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To the beach! Spain opens borders to tourists, cruise ships - BNC

By: Associated Press Undefined MADRID (AP) — Spain is jumpstarting its summer tourism season by welcoming vaccinated visitors from most countries as well as European visitors who can prove they are not infected with coronavirus. It also reopened its ports to cruise ship stops on

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