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On January 10, 2017, Barack Obama delivered his last farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. His speech is appears
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Bandung Conference, 1955
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African nations.  On April 18 to 24, 1955, twenty-nine representatives of nations from Africa and Asia came together in Bandung, Indonesia, to promote African and Asian economic
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Africa: COVID-19 - Developing Countries Must Not Be Left Behind
All countries will attempt to build up production of "essential goods" including medical supplies and possibly even food items
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Wills, Mary Jo (1951- )
Ambassador Mary Jo Wills has worked in international affairs for over three decades. Her service to the United States has taken her to Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Most recently, she held the position of U.S. Ambassador to the island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius in the
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Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
In the following article historian Omar H. Ali explores a lesser-known aspect of the global African Diaspora, the spread of African peoples and their cultures throughout the Indian Ocean
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Afrocentrism
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Google says it won't build AI tools for oil and gas drillers
Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and
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Barr, Joyce A. (1951- )
Ambassador Joyce Anne Barr was born in 1951 in Tacoma, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University in 1976, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. Ambassador Barr earned her Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard
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Serena Williams
Born: 9/26/1981 Saginaw, MichiganAmerican professional tennis player who is ranked No. 1 in womens singles tennis. The Womens Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and achieved this
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Arthur Ashe is born
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Olduvai Gorge - Home of Ancient Humans in Tanzania, Africa
Olduvai Gorge is a 20 kilometer (12.4 mile) long east-west trending narrow valley in the eastern Rift Valley of northern Tanzania. The gorge cuts deep into approximately 140 meters (460 feet) of ancient Pleistocene through Holocene dated sedimentary and volcanic rocks. It was at Olduvai that
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From the Lakewood Class of 2010 to the Class of 2020
Although St. Petersburg’s Lakewood High School Class of 2010 has had to postpone our celebration, we wanted to pause to reflect and offer a few words of encouragement to the graduating Class of
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Ashe, Arthur Robert
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Sportsman's Tennis Club
Since 1961 Sportsman's Tennis Club, through the vision and guidance of the club's founder, James A. Smith, has achieved local, regional and national fame by developing and promoting junior tennis programs that have elevated young Black players to noteworthy competitive levels of tennis playing in
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Johnson Smith bristles against headwinds of COVID-19 nationalism
How Jamaica prepares for potential geopolitical shifts in multilateral relations and trade in response to COVID-19 is a challenge that will have to be met with robust cooperation, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has
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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight | Afro
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Rep. Jim Clyburn Will Lead House Oversight Committee on Coronavirus
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NABJ Caught with Their Hand in the Proverbial Chinese Cookie Jar.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th President of the United States of America and the first African American to have held the post. He was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. His parents separated when he was an infant and divorced when he was 2 years
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Malaysian immigration authorities raided apartment buildings in Petaling Jaya Old Town on Wednesday morning, arresting about 200 people who had emigrated to the southeast Asian
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Robinson, Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt (1919–1972)
When Jackie Robinson took the field on April 15, 1947 wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he became the first African American in over fifty years to play on a major league baseball team. In the process, he broke through baseball’s color line that had relegated African American players to the
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Bonnie Logan was the first black tennis player on the Virginia Slims Tour.
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AMANDA EDWARDS ENDORSES ROYCE WEST
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Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to NCAA tennis championship
Arthur Ashe leads UCLA to NCAA tennis championship
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Woody Strode and Other African-American Athletes Went from Sports to The Silver Screen – Free Press of Jacksonville
While he helped break the NFL’s color line in 1946 with the Los Angeles Rams, Strode is better remembered for his role as Draba, the Ethiopian gladiator, in the 1960 action-packed historical drama
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Tesla's secret batteries could revolutionise the car industry
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