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March 27, 2010
Ben Affleck launched a new initiative last Monday to raise money and awareness over atrocities committed against women and children during years of conflict in eastern Congo, Affleck told The Associated Press.
March 21, 2010
“I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and past so much history, in just a year or two. I mean, it’s something we don’t even think about.”
March 14, 2010
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said she could not forgive him for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 alongside F.W. De Klerk, according to last Tuesday’s Evening Standard, a British newspaper. The white president released Mandela and went on to participate in negotiations that ended apartheid.
March 4, 2010
They ran the city, represented civil rights leader Malcolm X and were black pioneers who put Harlem on the political map. The “Gang of Four” were kingmakers who built Harlem’s political dynasty into an empire.
February 28, 2010
The president of Haiti said last Sunday the death toll from his country’s earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from wrecked buildings. Speaking after arriving in Mexico for regional meetings that will include discussion of Haitian aid needs…
February 28, 2010
President Nicolas Sarkozy brought a French plan to rebuild Haiti with him on last Wednesday’s visit to the Caribbean country, a trip officials hope will usher in a new era between France and its former colony.
February 22, 2010
Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.
February 19, 2010
The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients. When the catastrophic earthquake struck Jan. 12, authorities immediately decided to make all medical care free.
February 19, 2010
A South African presidential spokesman recently called a newspaper story that the country’s polygamist leader had fathered a child out of wedlock “a private, personal issue’’ without confirming or denying the report.
February 6, 2010
The event is sponsored by Clear Channel Radio in Philadelphia, City Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller along with City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, City Councilman Curtis Jones, District Attorney Seth Williams, State Representative John Myers and Pat Redmond of the Heart of Philly MCs and the Tri-State Motorcycle community.
February 14, 2020
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February 14, 2020
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February 16, 2020
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February 14, 2020
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February 14, 2020
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