Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

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JAMAICA FAREWELL ORIGINAL-- HARRY BELAFONTE

Al Sharpton apparently had enough of a Fox News reporter on Wednesday who was hounding Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) to answer his questions.
Reporter Leland Vittert was attempting to ask the mayor abouta source who alleged that she ordered police to stand down during the riots on Monday. Sharpton maintained his position in front of her while the mayor kept silent.
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Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

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My mum speaking on CVM At Sunrise in Jamaica about her book #Women in the #Garvey #Movement.
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Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

Saturday, March 8, was the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Television scenes of nonviolent demonstrators beaten by police shocked the nation. As the movieSelma details, the March played a critical role in the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Nzingha: Women in The Garvey Movement 2008

I was a ninth grade English-Language Arts teacher in Washington, DC when I overheard an intensifying debate between two students about the existence of unicorns.

"There ain't no such thing... it's made up."
"How do you know they never existed? The idea had to come from somewhere."

As I made a mental note to do a lesson on double-negatives, my philosophical training compelled me to turn this

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