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2021 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival will return once again to the Prospect Park bandshell with live, in-person performances.

43 Annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival Returns to Prospect Park

Photos: BRIC\YouTube New York, NY – Monday, BRIC, a Brooklyn-based leading arts and media institution, announced the 2021 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival will return ...

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Burna Boy Joins Davido and Tiwa Savage to Feature at the Africa Day Benefit Concert at Home

Africa Day is on Monday, 25 May 2020. How will you be celebrating? The “Africa Day Benefit Concert At Home” is presented by YouTube & ...

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Wole Soyinka, Bono, Other Prominent Voices Denounce Gen. Museveni’s Bid to Muzzle Ugandan Artists

Wole Soyinka opposes Uganda regimes draconian censorship of artists. Photo: Facebook    Uganda’s government is proposing regulations that include vetting new songs, videos and ...

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Bail for Bobi Wine and Co-Defendants As U.S.-backed dictator Gen. Museveni Blinks

  Down but not out. Bobi Wine in an ambulance soon after being granted bail.       Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni has blinked. ...

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Uganda: As Global Opposition Escalates Bobi Wine’s Bogus Charges Transferred by Gen. Museveni to Civilian Court

U.S.-backed dictator Gen. Museveni The general court martial in Uganda buckling to intense domestic demonstrations and global condemnation and protests today dropped the bogus ...

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Excellence Through Scholarship: Theme Of AAI Gala 2015

Hage Geingob During the United Nations General Assembly, The Africa-America Institute will host its Future Leaders Legacy Fund Awards Gala — one of the ...

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SUPERSTAR KIDJO PICKS UP 2ND GRAMMY FOR ‘EVE’ – A ‘WOMEN’S’ ALBUM

NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2015 (IPS) – African singer, showstopper and activist Angélique Kidjo, won her second Grammy Award for the Best World Music ...

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NEARLY HALF A MILLION JOIN ROUSING CLIMATE JUSTICE MARCH

Sep. 22 (GIN) – New York streets were overflowing on Sunday with hand-made posters, buttons, baby carriages, bicycles, musical bands and nearly 400,000 marchers ...