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BLACK PEOPLE are at almost twice the risk of dying from COVID-19 than white people... The post COVID-19: Black people at almost twice the risk of dying from virus, report says appeared first on Voice Online.
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Mau Mau (1952-1960)
The Mau Mau Uprising, a revolt against colonial rule in Kenya, lasted from 1952 through 1960 and helped to hasten Kenya’s independence. Issues like the expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from settler farms, loss of land to white settlers, poverty, and lack of true political representation for Africans
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For fifty-five years we have managed to hold together a pluralistic society - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, In a few days, we Guyanese will be observing the 55th anniversary of our country’s independence from the United Kingdom. The article For fifty-five years we have managed to hold together a pluralistic society appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Chicago Urban League Reports on Disparities of COVID-19 | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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Common Stereotypes About Africa
In the 21st century, there’s never been more focus on Africa than now. Thanks to the revolutions sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, Africa has the world’s attention. But just because all eyes happen to be on Africa at the moment doesn’t mean myths about this part of the world have
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Legislation to Cut Rents and Other Bills You Should Know About
From legislation to cut rents and mortgages across California to your right to order invisible braces for your teeth online, here are five pieces of legislation that could impact the African American community across California, and meet the legislators who authored and introduced those
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Trokosi: The West African custom where girls are forced to serve at shrines for sins of their fathers
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Biography: Idi Amin Dada, the Butcher of Uganda
Idi Amin Dada, who became known as the Butcher of Uganda for his brutal, despotic rule whilst president of Uganda in the 1970s, is possibly the most notorious of all Africas post-independence dictators. Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 and ruled over Uganda for 8 years. Estimates for
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Berbers - Ancient History of North African Pastoralists
The Berbers, or Berber, has a number of meanings, including a language, a culture, a location and a group of people: most prominently it is the collective term used for dozens of tribes of pastoralists, indigenous people who herd sheep and goats and live in northwest Africa today. Despite this
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Africa: World Toilet Day, Flush With Innovations for Safer Sanitation
Press Release - Innovation abounds in the race to broaden access to clean water and sanitation around the world on World Toilet Day, marked on 19 November.
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African immigration to the United States
African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. The term African in the scope of this article refers to geographical or national origins rather than racial affiliation. Between the Immigration and Nationality
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How the Fante of Ghana were led to their present home by animals disguised as men
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Ghana: Chieftaincy Conflicts in Ghana Are Mixed Up With Politics - What's At Risk
[The Conversation Africa] Chieftaincy is one of Ghana's oldest traditional institutions. It has remained resilient despite attempts by both colonial and post-independent governments to control and undermine it. According to Article 270 of Ghana's 1992 constitution, the chieftaincy institution is
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Nkurunziza: Burundi's leader who believed he was chosen by God
Burundi's president Pierre Nkurunziza believed he was chosen by God to lead the east African nation and he did so with an iron fist, his efforts to stay in power plunging the country into chaos in his final
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Chad: As Chad's Problems Mount, What Role for Civil Society?
Despite Chad's economic woes and its citizens' frustration with elite impunity, its civil society organisations have struggled to mobilise into a coherent protest
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans[3]) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.[4] [5] The term may also be used to include only those individuals who are descended from enslaved
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First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996)
The First Liberian Civil War was one of Africa’s bloodiest civil conflicts in the post-independence era. The war claimed more than two hundred thousand Liberian lives in a nation of 2.1 million people and displaced a million other citizens in refugee camps in neighboring countries. On December
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Dungeons & Dragons Race Issues Have Deep Roots In The World Of Fantasy
Wizards of the Coast, the company behind D&D, vowed to revise the idea of inherently evil "races" such as orcs in its popular fantasy game.
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NDERITU: How civil service has been ‘colonised’
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Paras Ramoutar hopes to inspire with his autobiography A Call Within a Call - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
INTERNATIONAL journalist and former councillor in the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation Parasram "Paras" Ramoutar has expressed his autobiography can inspire community work and an improved level of journalism. He was speaking with Newsday in an interview about his book A Call Within
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OPINION | Africa is not just who we are; it is also our politics
The idea that Africans are people who must be contained within what is circumscribed as a proper place or their natural habitat is revolting and deeply problematic, writes Divine
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Video: Karen Calls Police After Catching Beat Down Over Racial Slurs And Attack On Black Women
A video shows a Karen using racial slurs against Black women after getting beat up over her racial attacks. The post Video: Karen Calls Police After Catching Beat Down Over Racial Slurs And Attack On Black Women appeared first on NewsOne.
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Gullah
The Gullah are the descendants of enslaved Africans from various people who lived in the Lowcountry regions of the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina, in the area of both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands. They developed a creole ethnicity and language that is distinctive among African
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Organization of Afro-American Unity
The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964. The OAAU was modeled on the Organisation of African Unity, which had impressed Malcolm X during his visit to Africa in April and May 1964. The purpose of the OAAU was to fight for the
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Four dead as protests erupt over killing of Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa
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The Iria festival in Nigeria where girls showcase their maidenhood to get suitors
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Africa: Emerging Climate Finance Infrastructure to Match Africa's Green Bankable Solutions
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