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The ‘Study of Knowledge, Attitude, Anxiety & Perceived Mental Healthcare Need in [the] Indian Population During [the] COVID-19 Pandemic’, conducted by Deblina Roy, et al, used an online survey and got a total of 662 responses from persons who had at least a moderate knowledge of COVID-19 and how to
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Kenya, Djibouti split regional votes for non-permanent UNSC seat
Kenya and Djibouti will later today know which of them will take Africa’s non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security
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Healthy Soda? Find Out If Prebiotic Sodas Are Right For You
Who ever thought healthy soda would be a thing? (My inner childhood is mind-blown.) Well, in recent years, the beverage industry has brought us a new soda sheriff in town, and these fizzy drinks claim to be a healthier alternative to traditional sugary sodas. But should prebiotic soda be the new
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Nigeria: Why It's Time for Adults to Accept That Nigerian Teenagers Have a Digital Life
Young people are growing up in an environment ruled by digital devices, the internet and social
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Inside Microsoft's (impossible?) mission to go carbon negative
In January, Microsoft pledged to be carbon negative (removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits) by 2030 and to spend US$1-billion on a climate investment fund, much of it aimed at bolstering carbon-removal tech, a nascent field with lots of big ideas but only a handful of companies
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Pittsburgh woman seeks to change laws after PetSmart death of toy poodle
For the last 12 years, AJ Ross had a constant companion in her toy poodle, Kobe. Their worlds collided when... View Article The post Pittsburgh reporter AJ Ross seeks to change laws after PetSmart strangulation of toy poodle appeared first on TheGrio.
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Proposed Legislation Aims to Prevent Misdemeanor Hate Crime Offenders from Owning Firearms | USVI News | WCVI-TV
WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to the FBI, thousands of hate crimes are reported across the US each year. To deter these kinds of crimes, a Pennsylvania Senator is sponsoring legislation that would prevent people from obtaining guns if they’ve been convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime. 
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Africa: Afropop Celebrates 35 Years At Sob's in New York, Congo-Style!
[Afropop] Congo's Samba Mapangala and the Soukous Stars animated a high-spirited Afropop Dance Party at the legendary New York nighclub SOB's on Friday, Novemver 10th. The event was to honor of Afropop Worldwide's 35th anniversary and SOB's 40th. Samba brought a full-on soukous big band of ten
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The Different Similarities
The air became thick with anger, shock, sadness, and outrage as we learned of the death of an unarmed Black man that most of us did not know, yet many of us identified with, named George
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist, examines the culture of schools, the broad ecology of education, and the relationship between human development and social
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We just can’t go on this way - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE EDITOR: The members of the public who depend on the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) for daily transportation have been constantly subjected to poor service. The one shining example is the Deluxe Coach Service. Despite recent challenges, it has been pretty consistent. However, m
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African-American businesses
African-American businesses, also known as black-owned businesses or black businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865. Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards. By
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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned?  In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African
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Tanzania: Land Rent Defaulters to Pay 1pc Penalty
[Daily News] LAND owners in the country who failed to meet the December 31, 2021 deadline to clear their land rent will be forced to dig deeper into their pocket to pay a penalty of one per cent of every additional month estimated by Valuer's assessment of the size of the plot.
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Doggy deliveries help Colombians shop during pandemic
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) Eight-year-old Eros trots through the streets of this hilly city several times a day with a straw basket in his jaws, taking vegetables, fruit and packaged foods to customers of the El Porvenir mini-market. The chocolate Labrador retriever is paid with treats and massages
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Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine
The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and
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Holden, Oscar (1887-1969)
Oscar Holden, often called the patriarch of Seattle jazz, was one of the earliest of Seattle, Washington’s influential jazz musicians.  Holden was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1887. Before moving to Chicago, Illinois to escape from the South, Holden had played on Fate Marable’s famous
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COVID-19 ‘a big setback’ for CONCACAF Beach World Cup Qualifiers preparation -Simon
With the CONCACAF Beach World Cup Qualifiers tentatively slated for early 2021, Guyanese International Kenard Simon has said that the current COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the
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Dr. Leana Wen: Increase lung cancer screenings - The Washington Post
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Warning of ‘rebellion’ if ANC stifles dissent
While the dust is settling after Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina’s controversial tweets and threats of resignation, a different storm is brewing around the way the ANC handles members who express views that differ from those of the
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Slim Thug Apologize For Insensitive Cassie Statement On Diddy Lawsuit
The content originally appeared on: Urban Islandz Slim Thug issued an apology after strongly defending his remarks that Cassie’s decision to settle her lawsuit with Diddy doesn’t mean she was a victim. The Houston rapper is getting major backlash for claiming that all Cassie wanted was “a bag” [of
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Biography
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since
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Grose, William (1835-1898)
Before the Civil War, when he was 18, William Grose left his home in Washington, D.C. and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Assigned to the USS Vincennes in 1853, he went to South Africa, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia and the Arctic during his tour of duty.  Grose, who was honorably discharged in San
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Black Canadians
Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada.[2] [3] The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin, though the population also consists of African American immigrants and their descendants (including Black
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Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe was a twentieth century famous African American tennis player. He is considered the world’s number one tennis player after he won three Grand Slam titles. He was the first black man to be selected for the United States Davis Cup team and won the singles title at
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Left of Black with Anne-Maria Makhulu
Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Anne-Maria Makhulu to talk about her new book, Making Freedom: Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home, the Fees Must Fall movement, and the elusive South African middle
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Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar (1823-1915)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 17, 1823, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs apprenticed as a carpenter. By his early 20s he was an activist in the abolition movement, sharing platforms with Frederick Douglass and helping in the Underground Railroad. Black intellectual ferment of the era gave him
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It is more important now to be as strong and optimistic as possible with the challenges presented by Covid-19 and the contentious national
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The Black Laws of Oregon, 1844-1857
Oregon passed exclusion laws against African Americans twice during the 1840s, considered another law in the 1850s, and in 1857 approved an exclusion clause as part of its constitution. Exclusion laws were also passed in Indiana and Illinois and considered in Ohio, but Oregon was the only free
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Barnes, Emery (1929-1998)
Social worker, politician and professional football player Emery Barnes spent much of his life helping the disadvantaged in society and working for worldwide human rights and world peace.  Barnes was first elected to the British Columbia legislature in 1972 and was elected Speaker of the
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