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This story was contributed to TechCabal by Olawale Adegoke. In many Nigerian homes, chances are there are at least 2 passionate football fans. There aren’t many things that hold similar levels of reverence and following as football does in Nigeria. Nigerians are quite simply crazy about the sport. And nowhere is this passion as prevalent […]

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The riots or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the Aba Womens Riots of 1929 in British colonial history, or as the Womens War in Igbo history. Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt

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This West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, between Togo on the west and Nigeria on the east, is about the size of Tennessee. It is bounded by Burkina Faso and Niger on the north. The land consists of a narrow coastal strip that rises to a swampy, forested plateau and then to highlands in the

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Born on May 15, 1969, in Pensacola, Florida Emmitt Smith wished to be one of the Dallas Cowboys from a young age but the enthusiastic individual had to face many struggles before he could pursue a career in professional football. Belonging to a financially weak family, Smith had to juggle between

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Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932

In the following account writer Irene Brown recalls through her fathers photo the visit of Ada Wright, mother to Roy and Andy Wright, two of the nine Scottsboro Boys accused of rape in 1931. Her account appears

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Knights of St. Peter Claver (1909- )

The Knights of Peter Claver organization was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. It is the largest African American Catholic lay organization in the United States. The organization was founded by the Josephites, a Catholic order whose mission was to serve Catholic African Americans. Josephite

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Congressman Denny Heck, Olympia, Washington

On November 6th, 2012, the residents of Washington’s new 10th Congressional District elected Denny Heck to be the district’s first member of the United States House of Representatives. Since taking office, Congressman Hecks top priorities have been creating jobs, growing our economy and keeping the

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Frederick Douglass was the only male to play a

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(1906) W.E.B. DuBois, “Men of Niagara”

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Wilkens, Lenny (1937- )

Leonard Randolph Wilkens was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 28, 1937, son of an African American father and white mother. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, one of the toughest sections in the city, where he endured many hardships, including the loss of his father at a young

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Coretta Scott is born

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Border Love on the Rio Grande: African American Men and Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (1850-1940)

The area of South Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley became in the period between the U.S. Civil War and World War I one of the few regions south of the Mason-Dixon Line where racial miscegenation laws were frequently challenged. As a consequence a small but significant number of prominent

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Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

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Pollard, Fritz (1894-1986)

Fredrick Douglas “Fritz” Pollard, born in 1894, was raised in Chicago, Illinois. In high school he was an all-around athlete excelling as a running back, a three-time Cook County track champion, and a talented baseball player. Upon graduation, for a short time, he played football for

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Rhodes, J. Steven (1951- )

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Fuller, Margaret

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Williams, Sidney (1942- )

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South Carolina Constitutional Convention adopted

South Carolina Constitutional Convention adopted new constitution with understanding clause designed to eliminate Black

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1895

(1987) Clarence Thomas, “Why Black Americans Should Look to Conservative Politics”

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2012

(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”

Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849. After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University. Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School. After graduation he practiced in Boston. By the 1880s Grimke

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(1868) Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, “I Claim the Rights of a Man”

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First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lago

First Black to acheive that rank in the US Army, Col Charles Young, dies in Lagos, Nigeria, 1922

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1922

Bean, Maurice Darrow (1928-2009)

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Death of Ida B.Wells-Barnett

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Olajuwon, Hakeem

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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967

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1967

Segars, Joseph Monroe (1938–2014)

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