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☆ Bertie Bowman ran away from home at 13 to sweep the steps of Capitol Hill. He died at 92 as the the longest-serving African-American Congressional staffer.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Herbert "Bertie" Bowman was the longest-serving African-American staffer on Capitol Hill in US history. AdvertisementAdvertisementBertie Bowman, the longest-serving African-American staffer on Capitol Hill in history, died at 92 years old on Wednesday morning. Sen. John Kerry hugs Bowman after his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Secretary of State on January 24, 2013. AdvertisementAdvertisementBowman escorts Hillary Clinton at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 2, 2011. Bowman had continued to work in the Capitol until his death, becoming the longest-serving African-American congressional staffer in US history.

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☆ A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +38 min

It took me a few minutes of research to figure out why I was losing track of the descendants of the people George Julian enslaved. If the racial cleansing of Forsyth County was mentioned, I didn’t notice. Still hopeful that I might be able to somehow identify and locate living descendants of the people my family enslaved, I flew to Georgia last November. Her father was also a butler for a wealthy white family, her mother a cook. In 1860, Osby’s ancestors were enslaved and working the fields of Forsyth County.

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☆ Afghan Bromand keeps alive her Olympic dream in exile
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Amlan Chakraborty | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/3] Afghan boxer Sadia Bromand poses for a photograph, after her interview with Reuters, at a hotel on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, March 22, 2023. A series of reports in 2019 on the sexual abuse of Afghan female footballers made her parents fear for her safety. Once the Taliban reclaimed power in 2021, returning home ceased to be an option for the lone Afghan boxer who is attending the women's world championships in the Indian capital. Bromand was forced into exile to hold on to her dream of becoming the first Afghan female boxer to compete in the Olympics. Bromand says she is regularly contacted by Afghan girls who want to play sport and seek help either to train in Afghanistan or leave.

☆ David Letterman interviews Ukraine's Zelenskiy in underground subway
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] David Letterman arrives at the Statue Of Liberty Museum Opening Celebration at Battery Park in New York, U.S., May 15, 2019. REUTERS/Demetrius Freeman/File PhotoDec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. talkshow host David Letterman has done many interviews in his life - but never one quite like this. In October, the late-night host traveled to Kyiv to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the safest part of the city — a subway platform 300 feet (90 meters) below ground. Letterman also spoke with the head of Ukraine's railways - vital to the war effort - and visited a comedy club. "My Next Guest... with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskiy" airs on Netflix from Monday.

☆ Cryptoverse-Elon Musk frees the bird and the dog coin flies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Vidya Ranganathan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has put fresh wind in the sails of dogecoin, the meme cryptocurrency he catapulted to fame. It was trading at about $0.07 on Oct. 27 before Musk tweeted "the bird is freed" to announce his ownership. Not bad for a coin that was created as a "joke" satirizing wild speculation in the crypto market and named after an internet meme of a Shiba Inu dog. Its share of the $1 trillion global crypto market cap through the year until the end of October was 1%, a fraction of bitcoin's 39%, according to CoinMarketCap. Bets that Musk may allow crypto payments with dog tokens were kindled by his tweet last week of a picture of the Shiba Inu dog wearing a Twitter T-shirt.

☆ Russia says outgoing PM Truss was a 'catastrophically illiterate' disgrace
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovOct 20 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed the departure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, saying she was a disgrace of a leader who would be remembered for her "catastrophic illiteracy". "Britain has never known such a disgrace of a prime minister," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a social media post. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Zakharova's reference to illiteracy appears to refer to that trip, when Truss was British foreign minister. In a meeting with Russia's veteran foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, she appeared to confuse two regions of Russia with Ukraine, drawing mockery in Russian media.

☆ Fiți cu ochii pe Jurnal.md și Jurnal TV în ziua alegerilor!
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Jurnal.md și Jurnal TV vor ține pulsul alegerilor, oferindu-vă informații la cald, transmisiuni live, ediții speciale, fotoreportaje, știri la minut despre cum se desfășoară scrutinul. Pe portalul Jurnal.md informațiile vor fi actualizate la minut și veți fi primii care veți afla cele mai importante știri. Iar Jurnal TV a pregătit un program special de alegeri, pentru a vă oferi cele mai fierbinți știri și talkshow-uri. Primul buletin de știri la Jurnal TV va fi difuzat la ora 7:00, după care, pe parcursul zilei, veți putea urmări știri la orele: 9:00, 10:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:45 și 19:00. La 20:00 urmăriți și o nouă ediție Ora de Ras, iar la 22:00 - un nou episod al celebrului serial „Italia, Patria Nostra”.

Persons: Alex Cozer, Vitalie Călugăreanu, Stella Jantuan, Victor Ciobanu, Alexei Tulbure, Dumitru Mișin Organizations: CEC, Jurnal, Italia Locations: Italia

☆ Fiți cu ochii pe Jurnal.md și Jurnal TV în ziua alegerilor!
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Persons: Alex Cozer, Vitalie Călugăreanu, Stella Jantuan, Victor Ciobanu, Alexei Tulbure, Dumitru Mișin Organizations: CEC, Jurnal, Italia Locations: Italia

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