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U.S. Department of State Background Note
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Mumia Abu-Jamal
Wesley Cook established his status as a political activist while still a teenager. At age 14, he took part in a protest against a rally for presidential candidate George Wallace and was subsequently arrested by Philadelphia police. The arrest did not deter him from further political activism, and
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Carter, W. Beverly (1921-1982)
Ambassador William Beverly Carter is the first Ambassador-at-Large, and the second African American, to be appointed an ambassador by three Presidents. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon appointed him ambassador to Tanzania. Four years later, President Gerald R. Ford named him ambassador to
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1981
Grace Ogot
Grace Ogot , née Grace Emily Akinyi (born May 15, 1930, Butere, near Kisumu, central Nyanza Region, Kenya—died March 18, 2015, Nairobi), Kenyan author of widely anthologized short stories and novels who also held a ministerial position in
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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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O.J. Simpson
Orenthal James Simpson better known as O. J. Simpson was born on July 9, 1947. He was an American football player and is now incarcerated for numerous felonies. Also known as “The Juice”, Simpson briefly acted in a couple of films and was a football broadcaster as well. One of his
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Jul
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1947
Ancestry of Barack Obama - Family Tree and Genealogy
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Kenyan father and an American mother. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he was the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the first African American
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Engineer Lenell Geter falsely convicted
Engineer Lenell Geter convicted falsely in armed robbery charge. His conviction, which would draw national protest, was finally overturned after having served a 16 month sentence.
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2
1987
Death of Eric Garner
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New York City, after a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer put him in what has been described as a chokehold for about 15 to 19 seconds while arresting him. The New York City Medical Examiners Office attributed Garners death to
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17
2014
Reed, Frankie A. (1954- )
Frankie Annette Reed is a career Foreign Service officer who has held a variety of diplomatic postings in Europe, Africa, and Pacific Island nations.   Between 2011 and 2013, she served as concurrent Ambassador to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of
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Uhuru Kenyatta - Birthday
Uhuru Kenyatta , in full Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born October 26, 1961, Nairobi, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who held several government posts before being elected president of Kenya in 2013.
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Oct
26
1961
(2004) Bill Cosby, “The Pound Cake Speech”
On May 17, 2004, the NAACP staged a gala celebration at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Comedian, actor, and philanthropist Bill Cosby was asked to deliver the main address. Cosby
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May
17
2004
Berry Lawson Case (1938)
On March 26, 1938, Berry Lawson, a twenty-seven-year-old African American waiter staying at the Mt. Fuji Hotel located on Yesler Way in downtown Seattle, Washington, was reportedly asleep in a chair in the hotel lobby. He was spotted by three Seattle Police Department officers, who approached
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(1833) Maria W. Stewart, “An Address at the African Masonic Hall”
On February 27, 1833 Maria W. Stewart gave this speech before a racially integrated audience at the African Masonic Hall in
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Feb
27
1833
Haiti
After numerous delays, Haiti held elections on Feb. 7, 2006. The elections, backed by 9,000 United Nations troops, were seen as a crucial step in returning Haiti to some semblance of stability. Former prime minister and Aristide protegé René Préval, very popular among the poor, was seen as the
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Trayvon Martin
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Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor , original name George Kofi Awoonor Williams (born March 13, 1935, Weta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died September 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya), Ghanaian novelist and poet whose verse has been widely translated and
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Aaron Hernandez
The formal charges against Aaron Hernandez in the Odin Lloyd case: murder in the first degree; one count of carrying a firearm without a license, two counts of possession of a large-capacity firearm, and two counts of possession of a firearm without a valid ID card… Aaron Hernandez was 6’1″ tall
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Kenya courts Hollywood with film industry incentives
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Nairobi, Kenya (1899- )
Nairobi is the largest city and capital of the modern state of Kenya as well as the former capital of British East Africa. Nairobi was originally a camp for the engineers constructing the Uganda railway from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in 1899. Later that year, the railway headquarters was moved there
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The Bernie Mac Show
The Bernie Mac Show (often shortened to Bernie Mac in syndication) is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001, to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sisters three kids: Jordan, Vanessa, and
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Côte d'Ivoire
Côte dIvoire (also known as the Ivory Coast), in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, is a little larger than New Mexico. Its neighbors are Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. The country consists of a coastal strip in the south, dense forests in the interior, and savannas in the
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Kofi Awoonor - Birthday
Kofi Awoonor , original name George Kofi Awoonor Williams (born March 13, 1935, Weta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died September 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya), Ghanaian novelist and poet whose verse has been widely translated and anthologized.
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Mar
13
1935
(1963) Malcolm X, “Racial Separation”
On October 11, 1963, Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism as promoted by the Nation of Islam and declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America.  Most of that speech appears
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Oct
11
1963
Kenya
U.S. Department of State Background Note
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(1866) Mississippi Black Codes
1. CIVIL RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN IN MISSISSIPPI
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Benin
By the end of the 1980s, Benins economy was near collapse. As its oil boom ended, Nigeria expelled 100,000 Beninese migrant workers and closed the border with Benin. Kérékous socialist collectivization of Benins agriculture and the ballooning bureaucracy further damaged the economy. By
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Mar
13
2011
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery’s death a ‘lynching of an African American man’
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday called the shooting death of an unarmed African American jogger a “lynching” and said arrests of two accused men would not have been made if there was not video of the
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Taban lo Liyong
Taban lo Liyong , (born 1938, Kajo Kaji, Sudan [now in South Sudan]), South Sudanese and Ugandan author whose experimental works and provocative opinions stimulated literary controversy in East
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The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G. was an iconic East Coast rapper who released only one album during his lifetime, but rose to fame after his untimely death in a shooting incident. He was born Christopher George Latore Wallace on May 21, 1972 to Voletta Wallace and George Latore and raised in Brooklyn, New
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