Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard
Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard was the first African-American graduate of Harvard Medical College and also one of the founding members of the oldest African-American...
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Jan Pieterszoon Coen
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Jan Pietersz Coen, twice governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, was born in the city of Hoorn, in the province of Holland, on January 8,...
Dutch East India Company
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Dutch East India Company, of United East India Company, Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, trading company founded in the Dutch Republic (present-day Netherlands) in 1602 to...
Wayne Shorter
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Wayne Shorter, the influential American musician and composer, passed away on March 2, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. Born on August 25, 1933, in Newark,...
The Baule
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Baule, an African people inhabiting Côte d’Ivoire between the Comoé and Bandama rivers. The Baule are an Akan group, speaking the Tano language of the...
Ndebele
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Ndebele, also called Transvaal Ndebele, any of several Bantu-speaking African peoples who live primarily in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa. The Ndebele...
The Boer
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The Boer, (Dutch: “husbandman,” or “farmer”), was a South African of Dutch, German, or Huguenot descent, especially one of the early settlers of the Transvaal...
Cape Verde
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The history of Cape Verde is typical and yet unique for its location. For three centuries, the islands were a setting for the transatlantic slave...
Igbo
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Igbo, also called Ibo, are people living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria who speaks Igbo, a language of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family....
William B. Gould
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William B. Gould was born into slavery in Wilmington, N.C. in 1837. During the Civil War, Gould escaped with seven others on September 21, 1862,...