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30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in
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Sudan: Accused Darfur War Criminal Ali Kushayb in ICC Custody
A former militia leader accused of war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region is now in the custody of the International Criminal
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Protest Options: A List of Links to Petitions, Donations, Resources and Education
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
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Nigeria Records 717 Rape Cases in Five Months - Official
The police chief called on Nigerians to join in efforts to tackle rape and other sexual violence by ensuring prompt report of cases and working with the police to apprehend the
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Source: allAfrica.com
African-American history
African-American history is the part of American history that looks at the African-American or Black American ethnic groups in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. Blacks from the
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Nigeria: Buhari Directs Four Ministers to Develop New Template Against Insecurity
Besides, the president yesterday dispatched security chiefs, led by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno, to Katsina State, rocked by a wave of protests over the insecurity in the state, to find lasting solutions to the deteriorating security challenges bedeviling the
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This Day in History - May 26
1994: US President Bill Clinton renews trade privileges for China, and announces his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights
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Floyd Murder Unleashes Black Parents’ Worst Fears
Her tears, she said, are for the senseless, callous murder of another innocent unarmed Black person, for the constant terror that African-Americans live under because of police brutality and extra-judicial murders; and a deep and persistent anxiety about her
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Africa: Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Hidden Gaslighting Abuse
It's like living in a gaslight culture, a term coined nearly a century ago to describe a kind of psychological manipulation or abuse of people - particularly of
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“Women Who Say They R Happily Married Shouldn’t Be Doing Stuff Like This” Boosie Responds To Failed Child Support Claims
Louisiana rapper Boosie was all in the news for his parenting
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Sharpton, Alfred Charles “Al” (1954- )
Born in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 1954, Alfred Charles Sharpton, Jr., is an American Baptist minister and political, social, and human rights advocate.  Known as “the Wonder Boy” as a youth, he was licensed and ordained as a Pentecostal minister and toured with the gospel singer
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Perverts take aim at children
THE police have made two more arrests in connection with the alleged rape of young girls across the island, at a time when child protection agencies are expressing concern that Jamaica's children, who are out of school, are at
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Amnesty accuses Ethiopia of extrajudicial killings
The rights group said in a report that victims were accused of being supporters of the Oromo Liberation Army, the breakaway armed wing of the Oromo Liberation Front, which the government had previously declared a terrorist movement but which has been unbanned by Prime Minister Abiy
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Farmer accused of raping 12-year-old
Police sources told the Jamaica Observer the sometime last year the child and her mother, who was in a relationship with the farmer, overnighted at his
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Nigeria coronavirus: 15,181 cases; Egypt, India evacuees arrive
Confirmed cases = 15,181
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
18 deaths, more than 200 violent crimes in Gauteng linked to alcohol
The resumption of the sale of alcohol has seen Gauteng recording 18 deaths since June
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Willie McGee: Executed in "Traveling" Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
Willie McGee: Executed in “Traveling” Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
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Rwanda: Major Step Toward Justice for Genocide
Paris — The arrest of Félicien Kabuga, one of the alleged masterminds behind the Rwandan genocide, in France on May 16, 2020 brings victims and survivors one step closer to justice 26 years
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Source: allAfrica.com
South Africa: 37-Year Sentence for Taxi Driver Found Guilty of Rape
The 37-year sentence was handed down to Collen Mandla Ndala, 43, on Friday, and has been welcomed by Mpumalanga's police chief, Lieutenant General Mondli
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Source: allAfrica.com
Nigeria: All 36 Governors Declare State of Emergency Over Rapes and Violence
All 36 of Nigeria’s governors resolved to declare a state of emergency over rape and other gender-based violence against women and children in the
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Source: allAfrica.com
Rwanda: After 26 Years On the Run - What to Expect When Kabuga Faces Justice
Mr Kabuga, 84, was initially indicted by the Arusha-based United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in
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Source: allAfrica.com
Uganda: Justice Jb Katutsi On Battling and Reversing Diabetes
It has never been that high since I took a herbal concoction," the 79-year-old asserts, before going into the house to fetch the documents to confirm his history of
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Source: allAfrica.com
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The Russell Simmons Breakfast Club Interview Is A Slap In The Face To Black Women - Blavity
Three years ago, Russell Simmons found his way into the #MeToo movement when several women accused the disgraced mogul of sexual misconduct and
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Anthony Davis: The Man Behind the Pulitzer Prize – Voice and Viewpoint
He just won the Pulitzer Prize for his opera about “The Central Park
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George Floyd’s killing in Minnesota still hasn’t gotten an anti-lynching law through Congress
In 1900, the first anti-lynching bill was introduced by Rep. George White, an African
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Jean Kennedy Smith dies at 92; last surviving sibling of JFK
Jean Kennedy Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and who as a U.S. ambassador played a key role in the peace process in Northern Ireland, has died, relatives said
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Norris v. Alabama (1935)
February 15, 18, 1935, Argued
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Sierra leone
The trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, on charges of crimes against humanity began at a UN criminal court at The Hague in 2007. He was charged with abetting the violent rebel group in Sierra Leones civil war that was responsible for atrocities, which included hacking off the
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Kenya: Presence of Jubbaland Army Threatens Mandera Security - Roba
Mandera Governor Ali Roba said the foreign army is a threat to local security and wants the national government to kick them
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We are all horrified, but only White people have luxury of being shocked –
Last night while my city burned and curfew fell, I sat and watched “Black Panther” and thought about what smug hypocrites White people can
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