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Uncovering the Unrecognized Linguistic Diversity within the Black Community: A Closer Look at Africa's Multilingualism

Aug 24, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.

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Kiswahili: how a standard version of the east African language was formed – and spread across the world

Aug 23, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe.

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Enslaved Africans came to the Americas with skills

Aug 22, 2023 04:00PM ● By Karen Warrington

Ron DeSantis has stated that Black people learned valuable skills as the result of their enslavement. His uninformed opinion also points to another fundamental oversight in the American discourse about slavery.

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Cultural Significance of Some Timeless African Beads

Aug 21, 2023 10:00AM ● By Victoria Ezechukwu-Nwagwu

Historically, African beads have served as a form of currency and a medium of exchange, contributing to the vast networks of trade that crisscrossed the continent.

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Illuminating the Cosmos: Top 5 African American Physicists Who Shaped the Universe

Aug 19, 2023 10:00AM ● By Anand Subramanian

In this exploration, we'll unveil the stories of five African American physicists who have reshaped science and redefined what is possible for generations to come.

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Embracing Our Ancestral Heritage: The International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C. Honors the Resilience of Enslaved Africans at Its Historic Docks

Aug 16, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

The museum’s mission is to honor the untold stories of the African American journey and, under its location and landscape design, pay reverence to the ground on which it sits.

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Reviving Ancient Timekeeping: How Ancient Egyptians Pioneered the First Hour, Shaping Our Relationship with Time, and Its Significance to the Black Community

Aug 15, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

One of the most ancient written traditions, Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, gives us new insight into the origin of the hour.

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Confronting Belgium's Africa Museum's Dark Colonial Past: Progress and the Journey Towards Healing in the Black Community

Aug 13, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

The Africa Museum in the Tervuren suburb is at the center of these debates in Belgium.

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Water Diplomacy Unites Egypt and Ethiopia: A Hopeful Path for Nile River States and the Black Community

Aug 12, 2023 02:00PM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

Egypt and Ethiopia have waged a diplomatic war of words over Ethiopia’s massive new dam – the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – on the Blue Nile, which started filling up in July 2020.

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How an African collection of art in Canada is celebrated with care and community

Aug 12, 2023 10:00AM ● By The Conversation via Reuters Connect

A significant collection of traditional African art has had a home in Canada for almost a hundred years.

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