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Over 18 million across the West are under heat alerts, where temperatures in the desert could reach up to 120°. CNN Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the forecast.

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Research Guides and Websites: African American History in the West

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Kanye Omari West is an American rap singer, producer and songwriter, who is currently one of the most celebrated as well as controversial artists in the world. West was born on June 8, 1977 in Atlanta to Ray and Donda West. His parents got divorced when he was three years old, and he moved to

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Sarah Gertrude Millin

Sarah Gertrude Millin , née Liebson (born March 19, 1888, Žagarė, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died July 6, 1968, Johannesburg, South Africa), South African writer whose novels deal with the problems of South African

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Wiley College (1873- )

Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, is the first African-American college established in the Lone Star State. The institution was founded in 1873 by Bishop Isaac Wiley of Methodist Episcopal Church and chartered by the Freedman’s Aid Society in 1882. Isaac Wiley grew up with dreams of becoming

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Algeria ăljēr´ēə [key], Arab. Al Djazair, Fr. Algérie, officially Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria, republic (2005 est. pop. 32,532,000), 919,590 sq mi (2,381,741 sq km), NW Africa, bordering on Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco in the west, on the Mediterranean Sea in the

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Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (1837-- )

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Four national chain stores announced

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Angola ăng-gō´lə [key], officially Republic of Angola (2005 est. pop. 11,191,000), including the exclave of Cabinda , 481,351 sq mi (1,246,700 sq km), SW Africa. Angola is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Congo (Kinshasa) on the north and northeast, by Zambia on the east, and by

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The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era

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(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”

On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most of the address was a history of British efforts toward emancipation as well as a reminder of the crucial role of the West

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The Dutch West India Company is chartered, initiatingDutch merchants into the Atlantic slave trade; thecharter grants a translantic trade monopoly for 24 years.

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Brazil brəzĭl´ [key], Port. Brasil, officially Federative Republic of Brazil, republic (2005 est. pop. 186,113,000), 3,286,470 sq mi (8,511,965 sq km), E South America. By far the largest of the Latin American countries, Brazil occupies nearly half the continent of South America, stretching from

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Gatson, Dewey (AKA Rajo Jack DeSoto) (1905-1956)

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A Timeline of Suge Knight's Criminal History

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Guinea-Bissau gĭn´ē-bĭs˝sou´ [key], officially Republic of Guinea-Bissau, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,416,000), 13,948 sq mi (36,125 sq km), W Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Senegal in the north, and on Guinea in the east and south. The country includes the nearby

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1920

James, Jane Elizabeth Manning (1813-1908)

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Sancho, Ignatius (1729-1780)

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Muammar Gaddafi

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