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US President Joe Biden announced the history making nomination Thursday of General Charles Brown for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lauding the Black career pilot as a hero who’d not only survived ejecting from a fighter jet into a swamp but fought against racism. If confirmed by the Senate, “CQ” Brown, as he’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Afro-Colombian politician who studied in the Soviet Union and fled his homeland after being kidnapped by a paramilitary group has been tapped to become Colombia’s first Black ambassador to the United States. In a brief message posted on Twitter on Tuesday, leftist President elect Gustavo Petro wrote that Luis Gilberto […]
Guatemala’s Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras speaks during a meeting with the Nominating Committee for the election of the Attorney General, as part of the process for the appointment to the attorney general position, for which she is seeking re-election, at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, Guatemala April 6, 2022. REUTERS/Sandra Sebastian/File […]
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