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United States: H.R. 40 Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act America: Slavery and Jim Crow Introduced: Jan 6, 2015 Status: Referred to Committee on Jan 6, 2015 This bill was assigned to a congressional committee on January 6, 2015, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate […]

Movie honoring Katherine Johnson and the African American women of NASA – “Hidden Figures” NASA Katherine Johnson was born in 1918 in the little town of White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson was a research mathematician, who by her own admission, was simply fascinated by numbers. Fascinated by numbers and smart to boot, for by […]

United Kingdom: Scotland’s population increased by migration National Records of Scotland National Records of Scotland released Scotland’s Population 2015. Tim Ellis, the Registrar General of Scotland, said: The figures produced by National Records of Scotland paint a picture of our nation in 2015. The Registrar General’s Annual Review has been published since 1855, and over […]

United Kingdom: Reparations march Evening Standard UK Roads were closed off on 1 August 2016 as hundreds marched from Brixton to Parliament Square calling for reparations to be made for slavery. The Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March is part of a campaign calling for amends to be made for enslavement endured by generations of African […]

United States: How some whites have viewed racial wealth and equality before and after 1968 How some white Americans view racial equality can be seen in these historical newspaper articles. This could reflect why some white Americans, during the 2016 presidential election, have a view that America is not as great as it use to be. 1865 […]

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics Venues and Stadiums Maracana Stadium will host the first and last days of the games. The stadium will also serve as the backdrop for the Men’s and Women’s soccer (football) finals.   Amazonia Arena will host soccer. The Beach Volleyball Arena will host, you guessed it, beach volleyball. Carioca […]

Australia: Sydney’s population set to pass 5 Million in weeks Ten Eyewitness News (Sydney) Sydney’s population is set to reach 5 Million next month, with more than fifteen-hundred new residents now packing into the city each week. When you put that into perspective, that’s almost one in five Australians now calling Sydney home. According to […]

2016 presidential election – The Baby Boomers’ last hurrah? Baby Boomers are once again at the top of the tickets to be president of the United States Is this the last time Baby Boomers will win the presidency? Generation X and Millennials are getting older too During the 1990s and first decade of the 2000s Baby Boomers […]

Rio De Janeiro: 100,000 tickets across all 2016 Olympic events will go on sale on July 21, 2016 Xinhua RIO DE JANEIRO- Around 100,000 tickets across all Olympic events will go on sale on Thursday in what could be the last chance for fans to see their favorite sports at the Rio 2016 Games, according […]

Ireland: Population grows to 4.76 million in 2016 Central Statistics Office The first results of the 2016 census were released today and show that the preliminary total of the population enumerated on Census Night, Sunday the 24th of April 2016, was 4,757,976 persons. This compares with 4,588,252 persons in April 2011, an increase of 169,724 […]