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Last week, Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), sent an open letter to the “leaders and supporters” of the Black Lives Matter movement calling for them to consider establishing “a formal independent political
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Alan Dupree Wheat, the first black Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on October 16, 1951. He attended schools in Wichita, Kansas, and in Seville, Spain, before graduating from Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, in 1968. In 1972 Wheat received
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José Mário Vaz took office on June 23, 2014, after securing enough votes—61.9% to Nuno Gomes Nabiams 38.1%—during the second round of presidential voting on May 18. Domingos Simos Pereira, the leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was named prime
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Although Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, the nation continued to tolerate the enslavement of blacks by North African Arabs. In 1993, the U.S. State Department estimated that there were more than 90,000 chattel slaves in the
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Even if Lowenfield subverts process, GECOM can declare results – PPP
The opposition PPP says that even if the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield subverts the electoral process by not submitting the correct results today for the March 2nd general elections, GECOM can act on its
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Chaos over MPs recall in Khupe party
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The historic Constitutional Court judgment which allows independent candidates to run for office in the provincial and national elections was largely lauded by political figures who were at court on
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Somalia unable to hold election this year - Commission
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NGC concludes COVID-19 sensitization in the South East region of Sierra Leone
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Opposition politics needs paradigm shift - NewsDay Zimbabwe
A RADICAL paradigm shift is necessary to extricate opposition politics of this country from the doldrums of extinction and annihilation as the status quo is fraught with “own-goals” that gift the ruling party and “strategies” that monumentally fail to convince those sitting on the fence to wake up
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‘I am a pastor, not a politician’ - Firebrand clergyman, Bishop Rowan Edwards says he wants to remain non-partisan to fulfil his mandate
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Kenya: Raphael Tuju Defends Isaac Mwaura's Expulsion From Jubilee
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CDEDI dares Registrar of Political Parties financing
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Zimbabwe: Owners of Harvest House Say Chamisa Should Stay
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