Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as “Pelé,” is revered as one of the most influential football (soccer) players in history.
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what is Africa? It is a collection of very different countries and regions, with different characteristics. They do have certain things in common however – with huge biodiversity and mineral wealth and across the continent the most youthful population in the world with the biggest growing middle class in the world, but within that – real difference. There is this tendency to generalise.
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Abolitionists, for their part, also supported Wheatley as they did other African writers, arguing that by their literary merit and Christian witness they were living proof of the slave trade’s immorality.
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It took until 1976 to have legislation that criminalised racist actions in employment and housing, and established the Commission for Racial Equality, which could support people in industrial tribunals.
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He sought employment with various Dayton businesses, including newspapers, only to be rejected because of his race.
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“I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.”
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There are different ways of doing it. For me, I want to chase after a feeling, something that just feels good. And from there, lyrically, the music just sort of sets the template for the words. The feeling directs all creativity.
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“Don’t care where you come from/As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African.”
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His final traffic stop was far from his first. It was in fact his 46th stop — almost all of which were related to fairly minor traffic violations.
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Unfortunately, for racists in the 21st century, using this term is no longer a viable line of defence against a generation of highly educated, switched on Black people.