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Sponsoring Poverty: World Bank & IMF Structural Adjustment Programs from 1990

Many years after independence, many African countries had accumulated large amounts of debt that often exceeded their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 1990, the total debt carried by African countries was about $135 billion. Most of what countries were borrowing during this…

America Featured by Editor March 30, 2018

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10 Things To Know About Meghan Markle

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is due to take place on 19 May, 2018 at Windsor Castle in England. The groom, Prince Harry, is a member of the British royal family. The bride, Meghan Markle, is a former American…

Africans With Global Voices America Featured Society Video by John Akina March 16, 2018

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5 Things You Should Know About the Black Panther Movie

The Black Panther movie was released a few weeks ago and has since grossed over a billion dollars at the Box Office. It was not surprising that many people found the movie to be uplifting. However, there were some things that were…

America Featured Society by Editor March 9, 2018

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America’s Structural Racism: Black-White Wealth Gap Persists

The already large racial wealth gap between white and black American households in America grew even wider after the Great Recession of 2007-2009. A new report from the Center for American Progress finds that the racial gap in wealth is widening. The…

America Featured by Editor March 2, 2018

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Feminists Got It Wrong: One-Parent Students Leave School Earlier

One of the leading early feminist voices once remarked, “The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.” Linda Gordon Historian & leading feminist voice. However, a study by researchers at New York…

America Culture Featured Gamechangers Politics ReVision by Editor February 25, 2018

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Forgotten History: Black Heroes in Science

James McCune Smith James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American to obtain a medical degree, prominent abolitionist and suffragist, compassionate physician, prolific writer, and public intellectual has been relatively neglected by historians of medicine. A native of New York, Dr.…

America Featured by Editor January 26, 2018

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How Africans Contribute To The US Economy

A new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund details the significant economic contributions to the United States economy made by immigrants from sub-Saharan African nations. The report finds that between 2010 and 2015, the number of African immigrants…

America Culture Featured by Editor January 16, 2018

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Remembering the Dream- MLK Day

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR- I HAVE A DREAM SPEECH I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in…

Africans With Global Voices America Business Featured by Editor January 8, 2018

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Remembering Academics We Lost in the Diaspora in 2017

YEWORKA BELACHEW Yeworkwha Belachew, former assistant dean, ombudsperson and founder of the Dialogue Center at Oberlin College, died on June 14 after a long illness. She was 65 years old. Belachew was a native of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She came to the United…

America Culture Featured by Editor November 28, 2017

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Forgotten History: Desegregation of Boston Public Schools

The desegregation of Boston public schools (1974–1988) was a period in which the Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students. The call for desegregation and the first years of its implementation led to a…