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Somalia's Council of Islamic Courts holds demonstration against Ethiopian intervention. There have been fierce clashes with Ethiopian forces over the last several days.
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Kwame Nkrumah with Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka. Bandaranaike was the first woman prime minister in the world. A staunch socialist, she collaborated heavily with Nkrumah.
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Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Republic of Angola President. The head-of-state of this oil-rich nation has announced that national elections will be postponed.
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Berry Gordy with the Supremes. The film Dreamgirls attempts to depict the rise of this phenomenal female group from Detroit during the 1960s.
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Dream Girls' Stars, Anika Noni Rose, Beyonce Knowles and Jennifer Hudson. The film was released for limited viewing on December 15, and for everyone on December 25 of 2006.
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Mary J. Blige wins nine Billboard music awards for 2006. She is shown here in Las Vegas at the December 4, 2006 ceremony. (AP Photo: Chris Carlson).
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia. The west African nation has been a focal point in the international traffic of illegal diamonds.
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Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW editor, sits with David Sole, Red Aaron and Jessica in downtown Detroit on August 25, 2005 at the Camp Casey peace encampment. The Camp Casey Detroit project made a monumental contribution to the anti-war struggle in the city.
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Malcolm X at demonstration in Brooklyn during 1963. Four decades later elements within the right-wing are attempting to reverse all the gains of the civil rights and black power movements.
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Sudanese demonstration against United Nations resolutions calling for intervention. The leading imperialist nations of the United Kingdom and the United States recently revealed plans to attack Sudan.
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An historic anti-police brutality demonstration took place in New York on December 16, 2006. Over 40,000 people marched down Fifth Avenue demanding justice for the slain 23-year-old Sean Bell and his friends who were gunned down by the police in Queens
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Detroit anti-war demonstration through downtown on April 5, 2003. The march was organized by the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI).
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Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW editor, in front of a Homeland Security office in Detroit speaking out against the persecution of Muslims in the United States. (Photo By Patricia Lay Dorsey).
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Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, at the Malice Green re-dedication site in Detroit on November 5, 2006. (Photo By Trish Cunningham).
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New York masses demonstrate against police brutality. Since the murder of Sean Bell tens of thousands of people have expressed their outrage at this act of domestic terrorism.
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Aretha Franklin on the cover of her first recording with Atlantic Records in 1967. The release of this classic album made Aretha Franklin a household name and revolutionized rhythm & blues music.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan on March 14, 1968, just a few weeks before his assassination. King was targeted by a racist gang opposed to open housing in the affluent suburb of Detroit.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul on April 27, 1967. Detroit will host the 4th annual MLK Day march and rally on Jan. 15, 2007. (Photo by St. Paul Pioneer Press).
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Anti-Taser demonstration in Austin, Texas. People all over the United States have opposed the use of this deadly weapon.
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Pam Africa of MOVE and the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal at the Million Worker March, October 17, 2004. Mumia will have hearings during 2007 around the appeal to overturn his death sentence. (Photo by Abayomi Azikiwe).
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Sara Tavares singing with her beautiful voice. The Lisbon based artist has become an international celebrity with the release two groundbreaking compact discs.
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Sara Tavares, the young Lisbon based artist with Cape Verde roots. She has gained an international reputation for her unique voice and rhythms.
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Dr. Mayme Agnew Clayton, the founder of the Western States Black Research and Educational Center. The Center has recently been donated a home for repository of its documents.
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe with first lady. The government has announced that it will not abandon former Ethiopian socialist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam to the pro-western government now ruling Ethiopia.
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Children from the indigenous peoples of Botswana. Their representatives won a landmark case which ruled that the community had been illegally removed from their land by the government.
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Rwandan military forces as part of the African Union troops stationed in Darfur, Sudan. The AU expressed regret over the deaths of two civilians.
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Somali masses at demonstration against foreign intervention. The United States is encouraging Ethiopian occupation of Somalia in order to advance American interest in the Horn of Africa.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has been a staunch critic of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people. He was recently banned from leading a fact-finding mission in Gaza to investigate human rights violations.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters Pam Africa and Julia Wright in France. Mumia's lawyer, Robert Bryan, pictured at right. A street was named in Mumia's honor in Saint-Denis earlier in 2006.
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Wynton Marsalis and outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Marsalis says that his upcoming cd will be the most political in years.
