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South Africa: Dagga Seized and Suspects Arrested
During the early hours of this morning, police officers from Besters SAPS were patrolling the N3 North Bound when they stopped a white
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Accra, Ghana (ca. 1500- )
Accra is the political and economic capital of modern Ghana on the Gold Coast. Between 1500 and 1578, a fortress operated by the Portuguese stood at the site of modern Accra. This fort provided the Europeans with an outlet for trade, particularly in slaves, with the Ga people, themselves recent
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NYC Mayor Calls Off Mask-Wearing Orders After Video Of NYPD Pinning Down Black Mother Goes Viral
After a video of a mother being pinned to the ground and handcuffed by New York City Police Department officers in front of her child went viral, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to change the rules around enforcing that masks be worn in
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Sierra leone
An outbreak of Ebola hit Sierra Leone in March 2014. By early December, it is estimated to have killed about 1,660 people in Sierra Leone, and there were about 7,635 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It is the worst outbreak since the
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Out of Control riots
Forty-three persons killed in rebellion in Detroit. Federal troops were called out for the first time since the Detroit riot of 1943 to quell the largest racial rebellion in a U.S. city in the twentieth century. More than two thousand persons were injured and some five thousand were
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23
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Zimbabwe: Police Brutality Victims to Sue Matanga, Ministers
The duo of Sethukani Ncube and Weston Chadomba of Bulawayo, as well as Gweru based Trymore Mhari, suffered a dislocated shoulder, hearing problems as well as broken arm after being severely assaulted by police officers and soldiers enforcing the nationwide lockdown
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Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953) is a former American boxer who made a name for himself in the international heavyweight championship; he has an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses as well as three draws as a professional- he made 14 of those wins via knockouts. Spinks is known to have created one
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20 Best African-American Horror Movies
Comedic icon Mantan Moreland, perhaps best known as sidekick Birmingham Brown in a series of Charlie Chan mysteries in the 1940s, also starred in several all-black horror-comedies with his straight man, F.E. Miller— including this one about a pair of men who win a house in a game of craps. The only
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Shooting of Michael Brown
For the protests that followed the shooting of Michael Brown, see Ferguson
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Child, woman drown in pool at Houston home of ex-MLB star Carl Crawford
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The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past
In the article below historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall recounts her role as a founder of the New Orleans Youth Congress and the early years of the Southern Negro Youth Congress.  This account is part of her soon to be published
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1974
Family of Black EMT Worker Who was Killed at Home by Louisville Cops Hires Ahmaud Arbery Attorney
Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is the latest addition to the legal team representing the family of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black EMT worker who was shot eight times by Louisville Metro Police officers in her own apartment, according to USA
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Police looking for suspect in deadly 2019 east Columbus stabbing
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Police are looking for a suspect in a murder that happened in east Columbus in April of
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Black Panther Party Origins and History
The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Boddy Seale in Oakland, California. It was initially organized to protect blacks from police brutality. They evolved into a Marxist revolutionary group that was labeled by the FBI as advocating the use of violence and guerilla tactics
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Shooting of Renisha McBride
The shooting of Renisha McBride, a 19-year-old African-American woman, occurred on November 2, 2013, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, United States. Renisha McBride crashed her car at a street in Detroit, and then walked to a neighborhood in Dearborn Heights where she knocked on the door of
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Louisville Seeks US Review Of Police Killing Of Black Woman
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville officials have now asked the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI to review the police department’s internal investigation of the killing of a black woman by officers raiding her home two months
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Mother of Ahmaud Arbery says 'I have a sense of hope'
(ABC NEWS) — The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old African American whose slaying has prompted protests in Georgia, said on Monday that the arrest of a white father and son in the killing has given her “a sense of hope” that justice will be
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Zimbabwe
President Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed to a power-sharing deal in September that called on the leaders to share executive authority. Under the deal, Tsvangirai will serve as prime minister and the opposition will control 16 ministries. The governing party will control 15; Mugabe will continue as
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White woman slaps Red Lobster employee after being tossed out
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Nigeria
April 2007 national elections—the country’s first transition from one democratically elected president to another—were marred by widespread allegations of fraud, ballot stuffing, violence, and chaos. Just days before the election, the Supreme Court ruled that the election commission’s decision to
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Sharpeville Massacre
The Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred on March 21, 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, was the incident that to that point resulted in the deaths of the largest number of South Africans in a protest against apartheid.  It also came to symbolize that
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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to The Greatest - Summer 2016 Cover Feature
The following tribute to Muhammad Ali is featured as one of the dual covers of the Summer 2016 issue. The Summer issue features the Power 300: The Most Influential Black Corporate Directors and an alternate cover featuring an exclusive interview with former CEO of Time Warner Richard
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Egypt
At the urging of Gen. Sisi, who wields more influence over the country than the interim government, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets on July 26 to show support for the military and to demand that the country confront terrorism. The next day, members of the Muslim Brotherhood
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Rwandan Genocide Fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, Arrested After 25 Years On the Run
French police arrested one of the last key suspects sought over the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, prosecutors and police
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Racial Confrontation
One policeman killed and six wounded in racial confrontation between police and Black Panther activists in Philadelphia (8/29-8/31).
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1970
Nigeria: Monarch, Prince, One Other Remanded for Defiling 14-Year-Old Girl
A royal father, David Ogungbemi, 62;his son, Gbenga 21, and one Sarafa Olayiwola were, yesterday, remanded in police custody for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl in Ilare-Ijesha, Osun
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Zimbabwe: Hundreds Defy Govt Mourner Limit to Bury Late Prominent Masvingo Bus Operator
Hundreds of Masvingo residents Thursday ignored the government's lockdown restrictions to give prominent bus operator Tanda 'Mhunga' Tavaruva a fitting send-off at a local
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Ali was a fiercely serious child, who had experienced the harsh realities of racism at a very young age. He started training to be a boxer at the age of 12
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Third Lusignan Prison escapee recaptured
Ganesh Dhanraj, one of the two murder accused who escaped from the Lusignan Prison last month, was recaptured
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