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Blackface ‘Black Peter’ popular among Dutch at Christmas   By Ashley Michelle Williams The Grio  In the Netherlands, everyone is quite aware of the Christmas character known as Black Pete. He’s a little African slave who helps out Santa Claus. According to the Dutch tradition, Black Peter is responsible for carrying a book full of […]

  Christmas bombs kill 35 in Nigeria By Ola Awoniyi AFP  ABUJA -Bomb attacks on churches during Christmas services and a suicide blast killed at least 35 people in Nigeria on Sunday amid spiralling violence claimed by Islamists. A purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a bombing of the church outside […]