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Benin, Bight of
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Togo
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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but
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Slave narrative
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Grant, Bernie (1944–2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons in 1987 to serve as one of the country’s first black Members of Parliament (MPs). With a head teacher for a father and a teacher for a mother, Grant, the second of five children, was
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Doley, Harold, Jr (1947- )
Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr is the founder of Doley Securities, LLC, the oldest African American owned investment banking firm in the nation. Doley is the only African American to have owned a seat on the New York Stock
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Nigeria: Decline in Remittance inflows
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Wilson to become the official game ball of the NBA | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”
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(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”
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Battle of Waterberg (1904)
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Kenya floods uproot families, disrupt fishing, farming
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Rwanda: Kwizera Looks to Guide Gisagara to Glory in His Maiden Managerial Year
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Senegal
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Eka, David W. (1945– )
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Kofi Awoonor
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Bayard Rustin
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