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The powerful hashtag #BeingFemaleInNigeria is trending on Twitter, sparking a conversation about the daily sexism and misogyny women in the West African country face. Nigeria has made headlines world wide in recent months due to the kidnapping and rape of thousands of girls at the hands of Boko Haram, its recent banning of its recent ban on female genital mutilation
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A black man who survived being shot eight times in 2004 had a powerful message for Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof — and he left it on Roof’s Facebook page. Roof, a white man, was arrested on Thursday for the fatal shooting of nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday. As police hunted
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The story around NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal set the Internet ablaze Thursday night when it was revealed that Dolezal, who has identified as a black woman for nearly a decade, is in fact white. Dolezal — who is the president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington — has publicly claimed to be an African-American woman and was described as
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Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland gripped the city this week and prompted a series of news reports and social media posts reflecting the unrest that has unfolded. Gray died on April 19 after sustaining a spinal cord injury from an arrest — and his death has fueled protests, many peaceful but some violent, in
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Since a devastating civil war that began in 1991, Somalia has faced severe and devastating conflicts. Attacks by the militant Islamic group Al-Shabab in Somalia and surrounding countries have contributed to an international reputation for the northeast African country as a locus of deadly violence. Ugaaso Abukar Boocow, a 27-year-old Somalian woman who works for the Ministry of Reconstruction, which
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