by DrewGamboa | Jul 24, 2021 | Global African History, People
Environmental and social justice activist Freweyni Asress of Gondar, Ethiopia runs the Instagram account @ZeroWasteHabesha, with which she documents her progress toward a zero-waste lifestyle, alongside encouraging and facilitating conversations on topics such as...
by IsaacApple | Jun 3, 2021 | Global African History, People
Vanessa Nakate is a Ugandan climate activist who led Uganda’s First Fridays for Future climate strikes and founded Youth for Future Africa and Rise Up Climate Movement to address climate concerns in the African continent and world at large. Nakate was born on November...
by FranzAlyssa | Sep 11, 2018 | African American History, People
Film and theatrical actor Jeffrey Wright has been one of the most sought-after and versatile actors in Hollywood and Broadway since the 1990s. Born on December 7, 1965 in Washington, D.C., Wright’s father died when he was a year old. His mother, a U.S. Customs Bureau...
by PassannanteAugust | Jul 1, 2018 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The Vineyard of Château Hough was founded by Mansfield Frazier in 2010 in Hough, a working-class neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. This vineyard at the intersection of 66th Street and Hough Avenue, is among the first in America to build upon repurposed land. It is also...
by Rozen-WheelerAdam | Jan 26, 2015 | Global African History, People
“Image Ownership: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Perú” Politician, mining engineer and expatriate intellectual Luis Gilberto Murillo grew in a poverty stricken village of Andagoya, Colombia, an area inhabited mostly by people of African...
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