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  Meet the 15-year-old award-winning Ghanaian author and philanthropist using sports to touch lives

  Deidre Gantt

  What were you doing when you were 13 years old? For Adom Appiah of Spartanburg, South Carolina, the answer would be making a difference in his community – and making history. It all began with a...

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  Meet the Bahamas couple who saved more than 100 neighbours during Hurricane Dorian

  Deidre Gantt

  In the few weeks since monstrous category 5 Hurricane Dorian sacked two of the Bahamas’ 700 islands, most news has centered on the corporations and celebrities who have donated to relief efforts....

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  Inside America’s intriguing African town and village that will help you reconnect with your history

  Deidre Gantt

  From the earliest years of European colonization to the present day, Africans and their descendants in the United States and elsewhere in the West have been under pressure to assimilate themselves into...

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  4 little-known countries where Africans escaped slavery and created Maroon communities

  Deidre Gantt

  It’s officially been 400 years in the United States; more than 500 years in South America since Europeans transported Africans by force to build their “New World” colonial empires. In...

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  3 significant events in August that shaped the early black experience in the West

  Deidre Gantt

  No one can say for sure when the first Africans crossed the Atlantic Ocean (formerly called the Ethiopic Ocean when all of Africa was labeled Ethiopia by European map makers). In his book, They Came Before...

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  Meet the African deity who makes a surprise appearance in the new ‘Lion King’ movie

  Deidre Gantt

  It goes without saying that the original Lion King animated film was an instant classic. Beloved by members of many generations, it gave rise to two sequels, an animated TV series, a hit Broadway production...

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