State capture inquiry: 'Resign' if you are opposed to my plans, Zwane allegedly told department head

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State capture inquiry: 'Resign' if you are opposed to my plans, Zwane allegedly told department head | News24

The former Free State human settlements department boss has told the state capture inquiry that former human settlements MEC Mosebenzi Zwane told him to submit his resignation if he was opposed to his 'solution' of spending R1 billion for housing.

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o , original name James Thiong’o Ngugi (born January 5, 1938, Limuru, Kenya), East Africa’s leading novelist, whose popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African. As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, he adopted

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Jan

1938

Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007)

Elliott Percival Skinner, a leading late 20th Century anthropologist, also served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta (the West African country renamed itself Burkina Faso in 1984). Skinner was born on June 20, 1924 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. During World War II, he

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Apr

2007

Sean Bell shooting incident

Sean Bells murder took place in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006. Three men were shot a total of 50 times by a team of both plainclothes and undercover NYPD officers. Sean Bell was killed on the morning before his wedding, and two of his

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called the first lady of civil rights and the mother of the freedom

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Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination (1949)

Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination

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Southern University ][Baton Rouge] (1880- )

Southern University, Baton Rouge,the largest historically black university in Louisiana, was chartered in 1880 in New Orleans, Louisiana as a state supported institution for the education of black Louisianans. It was founded in response to the efforts of African American political leaders such as

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(1901) William Hannibal Thomas on the American Negro

Nineteenth Century black conservative William Hannibal Thomas was a Civil War veteran, Reconstruction era South Carolina politician, and U.S. counsel to Portuguese Southwest Africa (Angola). He is most famous however as the author of the 1901 book, The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and

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Shooting of Oscar Grant

Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Years Day 2009 by BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San

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Battle of Adwa (Adowa), 1896

In March, 1896, Ethiopian forces under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II surprised the world by defeating an Italian Army sent to conquer the Empire. In the following article Raymond Jonas, the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor of History at the University of Washington, explores that

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How Many Capital Cities Does South Africa Have?

The Republic of South Africa does not have a single capital city. Instead, it is one of a few countries in the world that divides its governmental powers among three of its major cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, and

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Fire Station 30, Los Angeles Fire Department (1924-1955)

Fire station #30, the first fire station manned by African Americans in the West, was established in 1924. Although the station was created in 1924, African Americans had been serving as firefighters in Los Angeles, California for decades, with Sam Haskins becoming the first Los Angeles fireman of

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Raymond A. Pearson v. Donald G. Murray (1936)

January 15, 1936, Decided

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Jan

1936

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a famous twentieth century Haitian-American artist. He earned his reputation being part of an informal graffiti group called SAMO. He drew graffiti and wrote enigmatic epigrams in the lower east side of Manhattan known as a cultural hotbed. Later in his career he earned

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Source: Black History Resources

Dec

1960

Cowboys of Color in South America

In the following account North Carolina State University historian Richard Slatta explores the little known history and heritage of South American cowboys of African and mixed race

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Kelly, Samuel Eugene (1926-2009)

Samuel Eugene Kelly, soldier and educator, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on January 26, 1926 to James Handy Kelly, a minister, and Essie Matilda Allen-Kelly, a homemaker. Educated at Greenwich public schools, Kelly dropped out of high school in 1943 and joined the United States Army the

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Jan

1926

Black Nova Scotians

Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors fled the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, and later settled in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 18th and early 19th centuries.[5] As of the 2011 Census of Canada, 20,790 black people live in Nova Scotia,[2] most in Halifax, though

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded on the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans;[9] [10] [11] on the north by the neighbouring

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(1849) Sarah C. Roberts v. The City of Boston

SUPREME COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, SUFFOLK

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Good Times

Good Times is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series primary executive producer. Good Times was a spin-off of Maude, which was itself a spin-off of All in the

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Watson, Barbara Mae (1918-1983)

Barbara M. Watson, businesswoman, lawyer, government executive, and diplomat, was born in New York City, New York on November 5, 1918. She was the daughter of James S. Watson, the first black judge elected in New York State, and his wife, Violet Lopez Watson, one of the founders of the National

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Granville T Woods - African American Inventor

Born in Columbus, Ohio on April 23, 1856, Granville T. Woods dedicated his life to developing a variety of inventions relating to the railroad

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Apr

1856

St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church [Milwaukee] (1869- )

St. Mark African MethodistEpiscopal (AME) Church, the first African American church in Wisconsin, wasfounded in Milwaukee as the First African Methodist Episcopal Church by EzekielGillespie and seven other men and women. Gillespie desired to establish a “Church ofAllen,” referring to

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Dawson, William Levi (1898-1990)

William Levi Dawson was an African Americancomposer, choir director, and professor specializing in black religious folkmusic. He was born on September 26,1899, in Anniston, Alabama to Eliza Starkey and George Dawson, thefirst of their seven children. His father, a former slave, was an

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1990

Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)

November 9, 1938, Argued

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Civil Rights Act of 1960

AN ACT To enforce constitutional rights, and for other

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Sep

1950

(2007) Senator Barack Obama “Voting Rights March Commemoration Speech”

Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I’m going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every

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Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Coleman Young arrived in Detroit, Michigan with his family when he was five. The Colemans settled in the working class neighborhood of Black Bottom (East Detroit), where his father operated a dry cleaning business and his mother was a schoolteacher. Early in his life

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Caver, Vivian Leona (1928 - )

Vivian Leona Caver is a civil rights activist in Seattle, Washington. She directed the Seattle Human Rights Commission between 1975 and 1981, and served briefly in the Washington State Legislature in 1994. Caver was born Vivian Leona Mead in 1928, in Jackson, Tennessee. Her mother Christine was

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Jenkins, Bonnie Denise (ca.1960– )

Born in Queens, New York, and growing up in the Bronx, New York, Jenkins was the child of a day care worker (her mother) and a store manager (her father). She attended a private all-girls high school in New York where she excelled at academics and athletics, and graduated in 1978. After

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