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Toll in Sudan army attack jumps as China, Russia block UN action | Al Jazeera
Sixty killed since raid at Khartoum sit-in, doctors say, as Security Council fails to adopt text condemning killings.
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Aboriginals to bag billions of dollars in compensation for spiritual harm and land in Australia | Face2face Africa
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR, Face2face Africa Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image [dropcap]Aboriginals[/dropcap] in Australia who were stripped of land rights should be compensated for “spiritual harm”, a landmark ruling by Australia’s High Court said on Wednesday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The court ruled that the Ngaliwurru and Nungali […]
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UAB student selected for prestigious national fellowship | Birmingham Times
Yvonne Taunton, Birmingham Times Sandra Cutts (Provided Photo). Featured Image [dropcap]After[/dropcap] a week of interviews in legislative offices on Capitol Hill, Sandra Cutts, a University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering doctoral candidate, has been selected as one of 60 students to be a 2019 John A. Knauss Marine Policy fellow. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Cutts […]
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Ghana is producing more female entrepreneurs than any other country | Face2face Africa
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR, Face2face Africa Women working at sewing machines in factory. Pic credit: Sleek Garments Export Ltd. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] rise of women in entrepreneurship is not necessarily associated with the pace of their country’s wealth and economic development as this latest Index on women’s entrepreneurship has shown. The second edition of Mastercard Index […]
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WATCH: Lawmakers, Advocates Center Black Women on National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day | Colorlines
Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman and David Johns of National Black Justice Coalition join forces to increase access to lifesaving health care for Black women and girls, who represent two of every three women diagnosed with HIV.
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The Md. General Assembly Must Keep Baltimore Accountable for Historical Neglect | AFRO
Briana Bostic, AFRO [dropcap]Baltimore[/dropcap] has seen, repeatedly, how the burden of structural racism and disinvestment leaves residents seeking opportunity where there is little, wanting an improved quality of life that remains elusive. The Maryland General Assembly must acknowledge that the burden of safety and the performance of security has the potential to adversely impact the […]
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Leah Chase, Creole Chef Who Fed Presidents and Freedom Riders, Dies at 96 | The New York Times
Leah Chase, the nation’s pre-eminent Creole chef, always knew what to feed her famous customers. The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. liked barbecued ribs, and James Baldwin preferred gumbo. The singer Sarah Vaughan ordered stuffed crab to go, and Nat King Cole always wanted a four-minute egg. She once had to stop Barack Obama, when […]
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Before Kaepernick, The ‘Syracuse 8’ Were Blackballed By Pro Football | WBUR
They met in secret, away from their white coaches and teammates. “We used to meet at midnight,” former Syracuse football player Dana Harrell says. “And we could have met earlier. But we used to meet at midnight, to lay out our thoughts and plans, just like the slaves.” Harrell was one of nine college football […]
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The American social revolution after slavery: Incredible photographs from 1900 Paris exhibition showed the world that African Americans were now musicians, lawyers and scientists | Daily Mail
Incredible photos from the turn of the 20th century were included in a bold and spectacular Parisian exhibit designed to promote racial equality in the wake of the American Civil War. He immediately turned to Librarian Daniel Murray and his former university classmate and prominent intellectual activist W.E.B. Du Bois to help curate his much […]
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