GUEST ROOM | RE: ‘Africana Department Refuses to Support Creating Caribbean Studies Minor’ - African American News Today

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Former mayor, officials allegedly linked to R9m George municipal fraud case | News24

The Hawks have served five people linked to the George local municipality with court summons to appear on charges of fraud, corruption and the contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act.

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Afro-Colombian Leaders: Recognition of Race and the Struggle to Realize Change

This article is part of the Leaders of Social & Political Change series from the Fall 2012 issue of Americas

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Discovery of 120 000-year-old human footprints excites scientists

Human footprints in what would have been an ancient lake in Saudi Arabia indicate humans were migrating from Africa through Arabian interior.

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Inside Akodessewa, the world’s largest voodoo market in Togo people swear by

Whether you are looking for good luck, spiritual protection, or answers to your illness and relationship problems, voodoo practitioners say the best place to go is the fetish market of Akodessewa, located in Lome, the capital city of

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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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Cultural showcase, Media for the deaf, and Anti covid-19 comedy [Inspire Africa]

The story of a man in Kenya with a vision for the deaf. Plus, the showcase of the cultural export of the African diaspora in Korea. And, an interview with Nigerian instagram sensation @Taaooma.

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Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbuss arrival in the region in 1492. Other names for this ethnicity include African-Caribbean (especially preferred among the United Kingdom branch of the

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‘March On Washington Film Festival’ Kicks Off Sunday | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Festival awards gala to pay tribute to late Congressman John Lewis, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and SPLC’s Margaret Huang The “March on Washington Film Festival,” an annual civil rights legacy project tracing the history of the American Civil Rights Movement, will hold its first-ever all-virtual

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What Is Pan-Africanism and How Has It Been Developed?

P an-Africanism was Initially an anti-slavery and anti-colonial movement amongst black people of Africa and the diaspora in the late 19th century. Its aims have evolved through the ensuing

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Canadian-Born Supermodel of Indian Descent Explains Her Previous Anti-Black Dating Sentiments & More – Your

Introduction by Victor Trammell Photo credits: Lee O'Connor for Business Model Magazine In the South Asian nation of India, the so-called "Bollywood" national film industry is spoken about quite a bit for the obsession it has with casting fairer-skinned actors and actresses in its

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Deep Roots Across the Atlantic: Rice and Race in Africa and the Americas

Carnegie Mellon University historian Edda L. Fields Blacks 2008 book, Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora, opened a vast new area of diasporic study by linking the cultivation of rice in Africa to the rise of this crucially important food crop in Colonial South

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Football is Back! Better Days are Ahead | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Beyond the Rhetoric By Harry C. Alford & Kay DeBow It sounded like sweet music to our ears. “Stay tuned for the opening of the NFL Football Season.” With great anticipation we have waited, prayed, and worried about the future of professional and college football as we know it. At last, the sweet

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What's Going On | New York Carib News

AMERICA’S OTHER PLAGUE

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Opposition party urges Caricom to stand firm against any plan to invade

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) is questioning the motive behind the visit of United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to the Caribbean and is urging regional countries 'to stand their ground on the well-established principles of international relations

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The cruel and unusual story of Willie Francis, the teen who was executed twice

Thus, while the state prepared to try to kill Francis again, Frederick managed to hire the services of Bertrand DeBlanc, a lawyer who had also been a good friend of Thomas before his

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Scarborough, Danny (1947-1989)

Danny Lyon Scarborough made his mark in the world in two arenas, as an innovative, Emmy Award-winning choreographer/dancer, and as one of the first well-known African Americans to go public about having AIDS. Born on July 27, 1947, he grew up on a farm near Wake Forest, North Carolina. He was

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Africa: Confirmation of Africa's Historical Rejection in the Wake of COVID-19

With no clinical trials conducted in Africa, researchers have emphasized that Africa's Covid-19 research should be tailored to the

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Stranded Trinidad national scholarship winner feels totally abandoned - Stabroek News

(Trinidad Guardian) Vashist Persad, 28, is a national scholarship winner who is among thousands of T&T nationals stranded abroad. The article Stranded Trinidad national scholarship winner feels totally abandoned appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Black Men’s Solidarity event draws hundreds to Freedom Corner | New Pittsburgh Courier

The Black men’s solidarity event brought hundreds of local Black men together at Freedom Corner. (Photos By J.L. Martello) Anwan “Wan Wes” Wesley. Ed Gainey. Derrick Tillman. Aerion Abney. Alphonso “Fonz” Sloan. Terrell Thomas. Austin Davis. B. Marshall, organizer of the event. Just some of

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Pharrell Williams Helps Announce Juneteenth As An Official Paid Holiday In Virginia

The date of June 19, also known as Juneteenth will be recognized as an official paid holiday in the state of Virginia starting this year with state

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Alioune Diop (1910-1980)

Alioune Diop was the first black francophone publisher and a major figure in the African intellectual movement of the mid-twentieth century. Diop was born in 1910, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, the first son of ten siblings in a Wolof family. His earliest education was in a Koranic school, but he later

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A look at the Sakalava people, the first to form an empire in Madagascar in the 16th century

Once having an empire that ruled over almost half of the island, one factor that separates the Sakalava people from other Malagasy groups is that they do not dig up and rebury their ancestors under the ceremony known as the

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Kente Cloth: From Royals To Graduation Ceremonies ... To Congress?

Kwasi Asare grew up weaving kente — his father created the kente piece commissioned by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president after declaring independence from Britain, to hang outside the United Nations General Assembly building in

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Source: Stories About Black History

WE NEED A RADICAL CHANGE NOT THE TYPE THAT WILL KEEP US QUIET UNTIL THE NEXT BLACK MAN IS KILLED!

With an incandescent passion matched only by her abundant ambition and prodigious talent, Ms. Appiah has been at the forefront of the mission for this generation of Africans to seize control of tools by which Africa's narrative is curated, crafted, and presented to the wider

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Afrofuturism: Imagining an Afrocentric Future

What would the world look like if European colonialism, Western Enlightenment rational ideas, a Western universalism that is not inclusive of that which is not Western – if all of this were not the dominant culture? What would an Afrocentric view of humanity and of Africa and the people of the

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Covid-19 Threatens India’s Most Vulnerable Tribes – The Wilmington Journal

The Great Andamanese live in the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean about 1,500 miles south of New Delhi. The government classifies the Great Andamanese as a particularly vulnerable tribal group or PVTG. [...]

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Online directory Green Book of Tampa Bay helps visitors put their ‘green into black’ businesses

TAMPA BAY — Green Book of Tampa Bay (GBTB) is an online resource that offers its readers information on black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, artists, and cultural experiences created out of the African-American/African diasporic perspective, in Pinellas and Hillsborough

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Schooled By Youtube: Your History Didn’t Start With Slavery

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Teenagers who mocked George Floyd's death arrested

The trio, from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, caused outrage after an image of them recreating how the unarmed black man died at the hands of police in Minnesota was shared on social

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