by IsaacApple | Dec 7, 2021 | Global African History, People
David R. Williams is a distinguished social scientist and Harvard professor. He works to understand how race, social status, stress, and other social influences relate to health inequalities. Born on June 12, 1954, in the Caribbean Island of Aruba, Williams attended...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Dec 18, 2018 | Global African History, People
John Leerdam is an Afro-Dutch politician and theater director. Leerdam was born to African-descended parents on July 23, 1961 in the capital city of Willemstad, Curacao, an island dependency of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea. His father, John Arnold...
by BrianHoffman | Feb 6, 2015 | Global African History, Places
Oranjestad (literally Orange Town in Dutch) is the capital and chief administrative center of Aruba, a Caribbean nation that is located in the West Indies which remains under the jurisdiction of Netherlands. The town had a population of 29,998 people in 2010....
by BeselPeter | Mar 8, 2009 | Global African History, People
Maurice Bishop, revolutionary and Grenadian Prime Minister, was born in Dutch Aruba May 29, 1944 to Grenadian parents Rupert and Alimenta Bishop. The family moved to Grenada in 1950 to benefit from the economic prosperity of the time, and there Bishop grew up,...
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