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MONROVIA, Liberia: Sporadic shooting continued in Monrovia as a US. helicopter whisked Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson out of the country. US. officials say Johnson is slated to attend a summit conference in Accra, Ghana next week which could end six-year old civil war in Liberia. Spokesman Mike mockery said the White House endorsed the summit and stands ready to support any legitimate democratically elected government. "This won't be the first summit they've had," says Time's Marguerite Michael's. "There are two ways to stop the fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force...
WILLIAM EDWARD BURGhardt Du Bois was born an African American in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died an American African 95 years later in Accra, Ghana. His lifetime included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction after the Civil War to the unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born an African American in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and died an American African 95 years later in Accra, Ghana. His lifetime included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction to the unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
...Quist did not expect tograduate from Harvard nine years later; he did notplan on going to college at all. "I was a naughtyboy," he says. "I was almost shot one time."Walking home with a friend after curfew on thestreets of Accra (the capital of Ghana), he waspassing the police headquarters and decided totake a closer look at a bronze plaque he had neverstudied before...
...always been a foreigner," says Quist. Hismother, a nurse from Jamaica, met his father, adoctor from Ghana, while the two were studying inEngland. Quist's family lived in a Midlands towncalled Lemmington Spa until he was eight, whenthey moved to Accra...