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Rwanda Space Agency to Be Operational in July
Rwanda has laid ground for space technologies through the establishment of ESRI Rwanda, which provides mapping services and GIS solutions to government agencies, and the Centre of the Geographic Information System at the University of
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Rice, Norm (1943- )
Norman B. Rice was born in Denver, Colorado.  He migrated to Seattle in 1970 to attend college.  In 1972 he earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and two years later a master’s degree in public administration both from the University of
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28
1989
Zimbabwe Commemorates Torture Victims Day Under a Dark Cloud
[263Chat] Zimbabwe today joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture under the theme 'The World Stopped! Torture Didn't!' but with a dark trail of activists still locked up.
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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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Zimbabwe: Call for Independent Probe On Extractive Sector Relations
[New Zimbabwe] The government should set up an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate relations between extractive industries, their employees and host communities, an environmental rights watchdog said.
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Benjamin, Regina Marcia (1956– )
Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, is an accomplished physician whose professional and personal  roots are planted deeply in rural America. Dr. Benjamin was nominated for the post by the President on July 13, 2009 and unanimously
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Judge Damon J Keith Continuing the Crusade for Justice and Empowering Communities
In a career that spans nearly fifty years, the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, is continuing to build on his legacy with the release of his first ever biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon
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‘Come clean on human rights abuses’
BY PRECIOUS CHIDA HUMAN rights lobby group Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has challenged government to come out clean on its sincerity to investigate and end human rights abuses, mostly perpetrated by State security agents. The grouping said government should conduct itself in a transparent manner
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Evictions: Legal Resource Centre plan to take City of Cape Town to court | News24
The Legal Resource Centre plans to launch urgent court proceedings at the Western Cape High Court against the City of Cape Town regarding its anti-land invasion policy.
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(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
Beginning in 1892 with the destruction of her newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, Ida B. Wells for the next forty years was the most prominent opponent of lynching in the United States.  What follows is a speech she made to a Chicago audience on the subject in January
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Lemon, Don (1966- )
Don Carlton Lemon is a prominent, award-winning black television anchor in the United States. In 2011, he publicly came out as a gay man. In so doing, he became the most prominent African American journalist to announce his sexual orientation and was immediately considered a major role model for
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1
1966
Hundreds Of McDonald's Workers Strike Over Company's Response To Coronavirus
McDonald’s workers in 20 cities nationwide went on strike Wednesday, protesting against the company’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and demanding guaranteed paid sick leave, hazard pay and
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Kerry Washington is bringing ‘The Fight’ on July 31 - DefenderNetwork.com
Kerry Washington is bringing her powerful documentary, The Fight, to us on July 31. The actress is one of the executive producers of the project that examines four cases the ACLU has brought against the Trump administration. Of course, they only scratch the surface on the turmoil considering the
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Adams, Jr., Oscar (1925–1997)
Oscar William Adams Jr. was the first African American Supreme Court Justice appointed in Alabama and when he later stood for election to a full term, the first African American elected to a statewide constitutional office. He also litigated many civil rights cases in his career as a lawyer and was
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Paul S. Williams
Paul S. Williams is a Partner with Major, Lindsey & Africa, the largest legal recruiting firm in the nation. Previously, Williams was Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Cardinal Health, Inc., a Fortune 20 healthcare services company with $80 billion in revenues and
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Ghana: Parliament Approves All 4 Supreme Court Nominees
The four, Clemence Jackson Honyenuga and Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Court of Appeal Judges, Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, private legal practitioner and Professor Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, last week endured an average of three hours of vetting at the Joseph Osei-Owusu chaired Appointments Committee where
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(1893) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law In All Its Phases,”
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Jones, Anthony “Van” (1968- )
Van Jones is a social-environmental activist and the Obama administration’s former “Green Czar.” He was born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother and father were a high school teacher and junior-high principal respectively. While growing up, Jones was a stereotypical
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Namibia: African Swine Fever Contained in Omusati
The African swine fever that has killed close to 300 pigs in parts of the Omusati region, with an enormous and costly impact on small-scale farmers in the region has been successfully
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(2004) Al Sharpton, “Speech Before the 2004 Democratic National Convention"
In  2004 Rev. Al Sharpton of New York City, campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President.  Sharpton saw himself as the successor to Rev. Jesse Jackson who campaigned for the Presidency on behalf of the impoverished and oppressed.  Although he did not garner as much support as Jackson did
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Murkomen: Why I was ousted
You have been at the heart of government virtually all your political career, enjoying State power and its
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Civil rights supporters caravan from Atlanta to Brunswick for Ahmaud Arbery
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The Greatest Speech Ever - Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King
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Apr
4
1968
Egypt: Human Rights Activist Arrested Outside Public Prosecutor's Office
Press Release - Egyptian human rights activist Sanaa Seif was detained today outside the Public Prosecutor's office in New Cairo, where she was waiting to file a complaint after suffering a violent assault. Amnesty International is calling for her immediate release and an end to the "relentless
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Sudan
In October 2007, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) quit the national unity government, leaving the peace agreement signed in 2005 on the brink of collapse. The SPLA claimed that the governing party, the National Congress Party, had ignored its concerns over boundary between the north and
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Biography of W.E.B. Du Bois
Throughout his career as a sociologist, historian, educator, and sociopolitical activist, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois argued for immediate racial equality for African-Americans. His emergence as an African-American leader paralleled the rise of  Jim Crow laws of the South and the
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23
1868
Trévigne, Paul (1825-1908)
Creole New Orleans newspaper editor Paul Trévigne, thebiracial son of a Battle of New Orleans veteran, was born in New Orleans in1825. Trévigne was part of the free people of color community in Louisiana thatprotested racial injustice before the Civil War and helped establish Republicanpolitics in
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Tunisia: Parliament Speaker Receives Wind-Up Report of IVD
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (HPR) Rached Ghannouchi met Tuesday afternoon Sihem Ben Sedrine, former President of the Truth and Dignity Commission (French: IVD) who is tasked with its winding up.
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Police, army top list of human rights violators - NewsDay Zimbabwe
HUMAN rights lobby group, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has accused government of fostering tyranny masked as enforcement of lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 as human rights violation cases continue to increase. BY PRECIOUS CHIDA The lobby group said State security agents topped the list of
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