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Read Barack Obama’s spot-on speech celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday
As the world joins South Africa in celebrating the 100th birthday of its first black president Nelson Mandela, former U.S president Barrack Obama was in the country yesterday to deliver a lecture for the...
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Gwendolyn Brooks, the poet who became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize
Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 became the first African American to earn the Pulitzer Prize for her book Annie Allen, published in 1949. Brooks started writing when she was 12 and had a poem published by age...
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Endangered species that would suffer if DR Congo opens its national parks to oil drilling
The announcement that the Democratic Republic of Congo would allow drilling in its national park in a bid to explore oil has been met with concern by environmental rights groups. The oil exploration is...
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Meet Dee-Ann Rodgers, the first black Miss Universe Great Britain [Photos]
The Miss Universe Great Britain was launched in 1952, and ever since then, there has been no black winner until 2018 when Dee-Ann Rodgers was crowned the queen. Rodgers, 25, comes from Anguilla,...
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Zimbabwe opposition plans to change the country’s ‘cursed’ name for this odd reason
Before it was Zimbabwe, it was known as Southern Rhodesia, and now the opposition feels it is time for this name to go. MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa announced that the party will change the country’s name...
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Proof: Millions of money can’t save you from racism if you are a black person in the U.S.
A Florida hotel has come under criticism after a note targeting an African American millionaire was found in his hotel room. Frank Davis and his son Michael arrived at the Art Ovation Hotel, he was...
