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Juneteenth 2023 mural has new message
BY RAVEN JOY SHONEL, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – The community came out to celebrate a new mural in front of The […]
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GLITZY OPENING TO AFRICA’S PREMIER FILM FESTIVAL IN OUADOUGOU
The much-awaited pan-African film festival opened this week in the capital city o […]
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The Harder They Fall
BY DWIGHT BROWN, NNPA News Wire Film Critic They’re roughriders. Badasses. Pistol packing outlaws blasting bullets. The setup for this shoot ’em up started with the 2013 short film They Die by Dawn, the brainchild of […]
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OIL DRILLING BEGINS IN THE ‘COMPLEX AND BEAUTIFUL ECOSYSTEM’ OF KAVANGO DELTA
The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari Desert of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a […]
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LIBERIAN LEADER ANNOUNCES YEAR-LONG BICENTENNIAL TO BEGIN JANUARY
On Feb. 5, 1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. Next year, Liberia will mark the date with a bicentennial celebration beginning […]