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Telling Our Stories: Black American History Celebration, 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 15. Chesapeake Public Libraries is hosting poet Sharran C. Taylor (aka Kween Yakini). The program will include original poetry ...

Old Africa Rediscovered, Basil Davidson. Gollancz (25/-). ten years ago, I was walking along a valley floor in southern Tanganyika when I suddenly became aware that I was continually climbing and ...

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(AUSTRALIA OUT) Music therapists Janet Andrews (left) and Ann Lehmann help students Christopher Tull ... [+] (on the whistle) and Connor Hightower (on the drum ... is decades old rather than ...