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Request for Proposals: for the Design and Construction of Commercial Air Conditioner System at the St. Croix Educational Complex Music Building and Auditorium.

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Budget Cuts Could Put MLK Community Hospital in Jeopardy

With an “A” grade for patient safety from the prestigious Leapfrog group; its patient satisfaction ranking placing it in the top 10% of hospitals nationwide; and its all-digital, state-of-the-art systems putting it among the top 6% of hospitals nationwide for technological excellence, Martin Luther

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Uganda: Museveni Rejects Move to Split NSSF

President Museveni has rejected a proposal to split oversight over the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), saying it should be placed wholly under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic

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Police committee welcomes the enactment of IPID amendment bill

This Act removes the power to dismiss the IPID head from the Minister of Police, and places it in the hands of the Portfolio Committee on

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(1949) Ralph J. Bunche, “The Barriers of Race Can be Surmounted”

In his years as a Howard University professor in the 1930s, Ralph J. Bunche subscribed to Marxist ideas. However by 1949 Bunche was Acting United Nations Mediator for Palestine and had become much more conservative. His then contemporary views were reflected in a commencement address given at

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(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War as one of the most ardent defenders of African Ameriacn rights. Turner was also among the first group of Reconstruction-era African American elected officials. In July 1868, Turner was

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About African-American Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek

Architect Norma Merrick Sklarek (born April 15, 1926 in Harlem, New York) worked behind the scenes on some of the largest architectural projects in America. Notable in architectural history as the first African-American woman registered architect in New York and California, Sklarek was also the

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NFL Owners Reportedly Voting on Resolution to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minority Head Coaches and General Managers

NFL Owners Reportedly Voting on Resolution to Incentivize Teams to Hire Minority Head Coaches and General Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Tomlin is one of only three NFL head coaches after the 1919

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National Negro Convention Movement (1831-1864)

After more than a decade of organized abolition among northern free blacks, a group of prominent free African American men organized the National Negro Convention Movement. The convention movement among northern free blacks symbolized the growth of a black activist network by the mid-nineteenth

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“We Still Have Your Back” Brings Communities Together – Voice and Viewpoint

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Steve McGregor's daughter comes up big

The class of 2020 honours student spoke glowingly of her popular crime-fighter dad, whom she said provided the necessary financial and emotional support during her four-year

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15 Leading Black Newspapers Awarded Among Facebook’s $10.3 Million in Relief Grants

Facebook announced recently that 15 member publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) will receive $1.288 million in grants through the Facebook Journalism Project’s relief fund for local

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W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois , in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana), American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He shared in

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Despite Global Reopening Push, Some Jobs are Gone for Good | Afro

That’s the harsh truth facing workers laid off around the world, from restaurants in Thailand to car factories in France, whose livelihoods fell victim to a virus-driven recession that’s accelerating decline in struggling industries and upheaval across the global

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Johnson Smith says PM gave 'honest' response to prison rejection issue

Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith says Prime Minister Andrew Holness was truthful when he told the nation on Friday that his administration did not reject the United Kingdom’s offer to help build a prison

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Herman Cain is an experienced American author, politician and businessman, born on December 13, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee. Born to a cleaning woman and a domestic worker, Cain grew up in a poor family but learnt what he understood as the true meaning of success. Through his father’s hard

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1945

Tunisia: Sidi Bouzid-Accident - Eight Injured Discharged From Hospital

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(1981) Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

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Harry Lee, Willie Mae and Fannie Lou: ‘Lest we forget’

As a product of segregation, I so vividly recall mama, grandma, granddaddy, community activists, and educators sounding the alarm: “Education is the way up and

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Kenya/Uganda: Starlets Moulded Me, Ugandan-Based Kenyan Player Ogol Says

Former Harambee Starlets midfielder Jacky Ogol has found her footing at the Federation of Uganda Football Association (Fufa) Super League side She Corporates

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CXC must seriously reconsider its rigid July proposal

CXC’s proposal to use only Paper 1 (multiple choice) together with the students’ SBAs or IAs to assess them is seriously

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Russell Simmons Leads Hip-Hop Elite in Praising New Police Reform Legislation – Voice and Viewpoint

In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, the hip-hop community has rallied behind proposed new legislation to reform American

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California After COVID – Recovery is Not Good Enough

OPINION (CBM) – The coronavirus crisis is testing most households and businesses in California, pushing some to the very brink of what they can bear before falling off

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Rwanda: How Two Sectors in Rwamagana Are Becoming Key Suppliers of Fresh Foodstuff

Speraton Ntawumenyumunsi, a farmer in the area has more than 10 hectares of coffee, banana, macadamia, passion fruits, tamarillos and pineapples among

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Uganda: COVID-19 - 70 Candidates Stuck in Charity Organisation As Founder Fails to Raise Fees

"As we are going through the Covid-19 pandemic, my sources are all blocked and I have to take 70 students who are Finalists in Candidate classes back to

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Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael was a significant Trinidadian-American figure during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the global Pan-African movement in which he actively participated. With time he gained prominence as a black leader as he led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and served

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For some students, the road to graduation can be longer and steeper than for most

These students have shown perseverance and strength that would normally be honored at a classic graduation ceremony but because of the COVID-19 crisis, their chance to walk the stage has been delayed to

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‘Love is not enough, you [need] . . . some practical life skills’

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Zorie, 105, defied COVID-19 and the odds

According to Geneveiva De Mattos, a great-niece of the elderly woman, her great aunt was placed in the care of the then “Alms Home” at a young age, by a now-deceased brother who was unable to care for

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Covid-19 delays efforts to address Eskom's debt crisis

The utility would have to achieve a debt balance of R200-billion for it to be financially sustainable and not require assistance from government

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Mortgage Freedom 65 gives Canadian seniors a chance to secure their financial future

Canadian Seniors can have the retirement of their dreams with the help of financial solutions provided from Mortgage Freedom 65

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The Crown Mountain Bin Site Improvement Project Is Extended Through June 1.

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Liberty Mobile Customers Blacked Out on STX When Third Party Cuts Fiber Optic Cable

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John L. Steward Dies at 91

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CAHS to Host Virtual Pre-Orientation for Incoming 9th Graders on May 13

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