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Located within walking distance of downtown Columbia, South Carolina,Benedict Collegeis a private four-year, co-educational, liberal arts college affiliated withthe American Baptist Churches, USA.  BenedictCollege was founded in 1870 by Rhode Island native Mrs.Bathsheba Benedict and the Baptist
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Bob Watson, All-Star Slugger and Executive, Dies at 74 | Afro
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Christopher Columbus
Following the introduction of cattle into the Caribbean in 1493, during Christopher Columbus’s second voyage, cattle ranching proliferated along a series of frontiers across the grasslands of North and South America. While historians have recognized that Africans and their descendants were involved
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Video: OWN’s 'Girlfriends Check In' Is Right On Time •
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Grammy-winning 1970s soul singer Betty Wright dies at 66
MIAMI (AP) — Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose influential 1970s hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love,” has died at age
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Zimbabwe leader sacks deputy information minister
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday fired outspoken deputy information minister Energy Mutodi hours after he insulted three "abducted" opposition officials in
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Amy Cooper apologizes for calling cops on Black man to make false claim
In a statement to CNN, Amy Cooper said that she wants to “publicly apologize to everyone,” after she weaponized the police against a Black man who asked her to leash her dog in Central
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Black Arts/West
Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first black theatre, eventually became a nationally known entity across the United States. Evolving out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, it was founded by Douglas Q. Barnett in 1969. Black Arts/West functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and
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Crisis offers varsities chance to reclaim charm
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'Your Laugh Is So Contagious': Fans Praise Recent Birthday Girl Quad Webb for Her Happiness
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(1987) Thurgood Marshall, “A Colorblind Society Remains an Aspiration”
On August 15, 1987 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke to a gathering of federal judges.  Reflecting on his two decades on the Court and particularly on recent affirmative action rulings by the High Court, Justice Marshall reminded his audience that the United States had not yet
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Jamaican ship workers begin disembarking in Falmouth
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'This Gives Me Chills': Toya Johnson and Her Fiancé Serve Couple Goals with Heartwarming Video
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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial
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Peers hail Dabengwa’s humility
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Allen West, ex-congressman, hospitalized in Texas motorcycle accident
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Tunisian NGO distributing COVID-19 food aid via SMS
A Tunisian non-governmental organization, NGO, Sustainable Food Bank; is distributing food supplies to families adversely impacted by ongoing COVID-19
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Former WWE Star Shad Gaspard Dead at 39, Body Found on California Beach
The body of former professional wrestler Shad Gaspard has been identified by Los Angeles County authorities after it went missing Sunday, May
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Phaedra Parks Returns to Reality TV In 'Marriage Bootcamp: Hip Hop Edition'
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Tunisia: COVID-19/Social Aid - 7,756 Requests Submitted By Enterprises, Approved
Tunis/Tunisia — The Social Affairs Ministry announced on its Facebook page that it has granted its primary approval to requests of 7,756 enterprises employing a total of 318,219 workers, to benefit from the exceptional social aid granted by the State to enterprises affected by the COVID-19
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Black church
The term black church or African-American church refers to Protestant churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist
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Kenya: Tribunal Throws Out Plaint By Ruto Allies
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Trump Doubles Down On Fact-Free Fraud Theory About Mail-In Voting
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted on Twitter alleging that mail-in ballots allow for widespread election fraud, despite widespread evidence to the
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Regina Benjamin, MD
Regina Benjamin, MD is the Former United States Surgeon General and a practicing family physician. In July 2009, Benjamin was appointed as the 18th United States Surgeon General and served a four – year term. During that period, Benjamin served as the Chair of the National Prevention, Health
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Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere , in full Julius Kambarage Nyerere, also called Mwalimu (Swahili: “Teacher”) (born March 1922, Butiama, Tanganyika—died October 14, 1999, London, England), first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of
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Dr. Carter G Woodson: "The Father of Black History"
Woodson would choose the second week of February to celebrate Negro History Week because of the birth days of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He also would provide many different types of black institutions with information and instruction on what Negro History Week was and why it had
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Nigeria: Clearing Backlog of Surgeries Will Take 11 Months After COVID-19 - Report
The CovidSurg Collaborative has projected that, based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, it will take 11 months to clear the backlog of surgeries that have been
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6 Revealing Autobiographies by African-American Thinkers
Like the narratives written by former enslaved African-Americans, the ability to tell ones story has played an important role in the lives of African-American men and women. Below are six autobiographies that highlight the important contributions men such as Malcolm X and women such as Zora Neale
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