Carl T. Rowan

Sister Tarpley: Making judgements

Arthur Burns was also Jewish, so when he began attending an informational White House group for prayer and fellowship in the 1970s, he was accorded special

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Mathieu, Gail Dennise (1951?- )

Gail Dennise Mathieu, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was appointed United States Ambassador to Niger by President George W. Bush in 2002. She remained in Niamey, the capital until 2005. In 2007 President Bush appointed her United States Ambassador to Namibia. Between these

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Aug

19

2013

Rowan, Carl T. (1925–2000) - Birthday

Rowan was born August 11, 1925, in the mining town of Ravenscroft, Tennessee.

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Aug

11

1925

Battle, Anthony Michael (1950– )

Michael Battle is an educator, religious leader, and diplomat. Born on July 28, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri, he was one of twelve children from Jessie Battle Sr., a Pentecostal pastor, and Mary Battle. Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College (1973), his Master of Divinity

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Jul

28

1950

McGee, James D. (1949- )

Ambassador James David McGee, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in the class of Minister Counselor, spent the majority of his 30-year Foreign Service career overseas working in support of U.S. Government policy. Most of his work included political-military affairs, crisis

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African American Inventors - Names Beginning with H

Black history inventors are listed alphabetically: Each listing has the name of the black inventor followed by the patent number(s) which is the unique number assigned to an invention when a patent is issued, the date the patent was issued, and a description of the invention as written by the

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May

11

2004

James, Makila (1957- )

Makila James is currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland. James was nominated by President Barack Obama early in 2012. Following confirmation by the U.S. Senate on July 31, 2012, James arrived in Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland and presented her credentials to the King of Swaziland

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Moose, George E. (1944 - )

Ambassador George E. Moose’s career in international diplomacy resulted from his spending a college summer in the 1960s building a three-room schoolhouse in Tanzania. The high point of that career came in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to be U.S. Ambassador to Benin and later

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Reed-Rowe, Helen (1949- )

Ambassador Helen Reed-Rowe was a career diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service. Reed-Rowe was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1949 to Gladys and John W. Reed, Sr. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and her Master of Arts degree in National Security

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Child, woman drown in pool at Houston home of ex-MLB star Carl Crawford

Carl Crawford in 2015 (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty

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Show Me The Money

They provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres along the Atlantic coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida north of the St. John’s River and the dividing of it into parcels of not more than 40 acres on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families and other Blacks

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Ragsdale, Marguerita (1948- )

Marguerita Dianne Ragsdale was born in April 1948 in Richmond, Virginia to Lillie and Vernon Ragsdale and raised alongside her five sisters on a farm in McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. After starting her undergraduate work at Virginia State University in Petersburg, she transferred to

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Nigeria stands by AfDB president Akinwunmi Adesina[Morning Call]

President of the African Development Bank AFDB Akinwunmi Adesina is in the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Africa's persona non grata diplomacy: Burundi sacks WHO experts

READ MORE – Burundi sacks WHO officials ahead of May 20 polls

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Covid-19 wrap: Global deaths top 385 000, Senegal eases curfew and Armenia hospitals overwhelmed

FOLLOW LIVE | Lockdown: Loss of tax revenue outweighs harm caused by cigarettes, says govt on tobacco ban

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Segars, Joseph Monroe (1938–2014) - Birthday

Ambassador Joseph Monroe Segars was born in Hartsville, South Carolina on November 6, 1938.

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Nov

6

1938

Perry, June Carter (1943- ) - Birthday

Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas.

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Nov

13

1943

Tennessee State University (1912- )

Tennessee State University (TSU) is a historically black, comprehensive, four-year co-educational university located on a 500 acre campus in Nashville, Tennessee. With over 10,000 students, including nearly 1,900 graduate students, it is one of the largest historically black colleges and

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Patricia R

Patricia R. Harris named ambassador to Luxembourg. She was the first Black woman ambassador.

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May

19

1965

Burroughs, Jr., John Andrew (1936–2014)

John Andrew Burroughs, Jr. was an equal opportunity advocate and diplomat who was born in Washington, D.C. on July 31, 1936. He spent his youth in Washington, D.C. before moving to the Midwest to attend the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. While there he played on the varsity football

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Ambassador

Clifton Wharton is sworn in as ambassador to Norway. Clifton Wharton was the 1st Black person to earn a PhD in economics from University of Chicago in as well as the first Black president of Michigan State, predominantly White university.

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Mar

9

1961

Angola: We Look Forward to Strengthening Relationship With Angola - FM

Khartoum — Minister of Foreign Affairs, Asma Mohamed Abdullah, sent a congratulatory message to Ambassador Teteh Antonio, on the occasion of his appointment as Minister of External Relations of the Republic of

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Taylor, Francis Xavier (1948 – )

Francis Xavier Taylor is a senior military leader, intelligence and security expert, and American diplomat. Born in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 1948, Taylor was raised by his mother Virginia Taylor, who worked as an administrator in the Department of the Army. When he later enrolled at the

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Sharpless, Mattie R. (1943- )

On October 1, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Mattie R. Sharpless to be the next United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Sharpless was at her post in the nation’s capital at Bangui by mid-December 2001. Sharpless served in Bangui

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Oct

1

2001

Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of Guyanese'

Western envoys: `Important for all stakeholders to uphold integrity of recount process and peacefully accept wishes of

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Britton, Theodore R., Jr. (1925- )

Ambassador Theodore Roosevelt Britton, Jr. was born on October 17, 1925 in North Augusta, South Carolina. In 1936, he and his family migrated to New York City, New York. Britton was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps out of high school soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Although he was unaware

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Spingarn Medal: Andrew J. Young

Spingarn Medal presented to Ambassador Andrew J. Young in recognition of the deftness with which he has handled relations between this nation and other countries and for his major role in raising the consciousness of American citizens to the significance in world affairs of the massive African

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Nov

18

1978

Perry, June Carter (1943- )

Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas. After completing grade school, Perry was accepted at the Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in 1965 she earned her degree in history. Two years later she earned a master’s degree in European History at the

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Wells, Barry L. (1942- )

Ambassador Barry L. Wells has had an extensive career in international affairs with the United States Foreign Service after an earlier period as a university professor and administrator. Wells was born in 1942 in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from East High School in that city in 1959. He received

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Bernicat, Marcia Stephens Bloom (1957- )

Born in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in 1957, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat earned a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1975. Thinking she might teach overseas, Bernicat earned a teaching credential in social sciences at the secondary level. Rather than

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