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Is Hakeem Jeffries the next Dr. Seuss?

Politicians and their ghostwriters regularly churn out books in many different well-worn genres, including memoirs, policy manifestos, and novels. Still, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) latest book, published in

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? The Dred Scott Decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857 was supposed to end the decades-long debate about slavery in the United States. It did just the opposite, inflaming passions particularly in the North. In the follow speech, Abraham Lincoln, then a private citizen, p

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In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation. In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction

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A 35-year-old taxi operator has been charged for murdering and burying a security guard in St Catherine earlier this month. The accused is Paul Drummond, otherwise call 'Chris'.

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An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789-1861 (see also: separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 1865, abolished slavery in thje

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President Tinubu lauds new Justice of Nigeria, Kekere-Ekun - African Voice Newspaper

The President had lauded Justice Kudirat Motonmori Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun for her deep commitment both to law and public service as well as her outstanding contributions to the progress of Nigeria over the years. She is only the second woman in Nigeria’s history to attain the position of Chief

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By Wednesday, Trump was calling the words “black lives matter” a “symbol of hate” — a description he’s refused to use for Confederate emblems — that would spoil the “luxury avenue” he once called

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Namibia is bordered on the north by Angola and Zambia, on the east by Botswana, and on the east and south by South Africa. It is for the most part a portion of the high plateau of southern Africa, with a general elevation of from 3,000 to 4,000

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Johnson, Jack (1878-1946)

Jack Johnson, the first African American and first Texan to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world, was born the second of six children to Henry and Tiny Johnson in Galveston on March 31, 1878. His parents were former slaves. To help support his family, Jack Johnson left school in

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South Africa handed over limited powers to a new multiracial administration in 1985 (the previous government had enforced South Africas apartheid laws). Installation of this government ended South Africas direct rule, but it retained an effective veto over the new governments decisions. Finally, in

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(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"

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(1976) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, “Who, Then, Will Speak for the Common Good?”

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Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918

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