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...someone were to ask me about my ethnic background in Cambridge, I would equate the question with an invitation to discuss my mixed ancestry??my father is Libyan, and my mother is German...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Are You Moroccan? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

Kacyvenski’s story is little short of legendary in the Endicott area. He, too, came from an immigrant background—of Polish ancestry??and had lived a difficult life before he was plucked out of U-E by Murphy and brought in to anchor the Crimson defense...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Sarajevo to Harvard, Recruit Breaks Down Barriers | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...likely to get a blank stare, or that same stare preceded by something about “Back to Africa.” Arguably the most overlooked and misunderstood black leader of the past century, Garvey led the second-largest organized mass movement of people of African ancestry??exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without Garvey, there would be no Black Panther Party, Kwame...

Author: By Oludamini D. Ogunnaike, | Title: Garvey's Legacy for Blacks Today | 2/9/2005 | See Source »

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