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    Harris Rejects DeSantis’ Challenge to Discuss Florida’s African American History Curriculum
    Vice President Kamala Harris has rebuffed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ offer to discuss Florida’s African American history curriculum, which she has been criticizing since late last month. “Well, I’m here in Florida, and I will tell you, there is no roundtable, no lecture, no invitation we will accept to debate an undeniable fact: There were…
    Elise McCue
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    College Board Concedes to DeSantis on Woke African American Studies Course
    The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course for high school students after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, rejected it as “indoctrination,” according to a Tuesday afternoon announcement.   “Thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ principled stand for education over identity politics, the College Board will be revising the course for the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DeSantis Exposes Marxist Slant of African American History Course, Demands Rewrite
    It turns out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was once again right to take a stand against woke ideology when he banned a course ostensibly devoted to African American studies. The White House—and NPR liberals shilling for it on the public dime—slammed him for it, but the course was indeed more Marxism masquerading as ethnic…
    Lindsey Burke | Mike Gonzalez
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    Privatization Could Rescue South Africa’s Politically Corrupt Power Sector
    Despite vast reserves of coal, Eskom, the largest government-run utility in South Africa and on the continent, fails to provide reliable power and operates at only 50% of capacity. South Africa used to have a well-functioning energy sector that was the envy of all Africa, but because of ongoing government corruption and incompetent management, its…
    Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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    How to Make Sure Biden’s Africa Summit Isn’t Just a Photo-Op
    African heads of state, other high-level policymakers, and business leaders traveled to Washington for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which ends Thursday. The Biden administration boldly billed the summit, the second iteration since the Obama administration’s inaugural event in 2014, as a defining moment for U.S. policy toward the region. Regrettably, other than a series…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    African Nations Should Spurn UN’s Radical Sex-Ed Seduction
    When government representatives from around the globe meet next week in New York City for the annual United Nations General Assembly, the Transforming Education Summit, convened to tackle global crises in education, will be on the docket. The U.N.’s track record on education should raise red flags for all concerned. Ten African countries committed on…
    Bettina Roska
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    How Biden’s Energy Policies Harm African Americans
    While gas prices remain at an average of $4.80 a gallon, the Biden administration continues to promote “environmental justice” policies that Donna Jackson says are harming black Americans.  “When you have someone that’s spending more than 30% of their income for gasoline and they’re making choices between whether their kids can have … food to…
    Virginia Allen
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    US Must Be Vigilant About Competitors in Africa
    The government of Mali and a Russian mercenary organization were negotiating a deal in which 1,000 mercenaries would deploy to Mali to train its security forces and protect senior political leaders for a monthly fee of $10.8 million, according to reports.   Wagner Group, the mercenary organization, would also gain access to three mining deposits…
    Johnathan Little | Joshua Meservey
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    France Withdrawing Troops From Africa’s Sahel Could Cause More Terrorism
    President of France Emmanuel Macron announced the end of Operation Barkhane in June, winding down a nine-year counterinsurgency military operation and stirring doubt about the future of counterterrorism in Africa’s Sahel region. Origins of the Insurgency About a decade ago, an Islamist insurgency in Mali, a country in West Africa, took root in the north…
    Joshua Meservey | Joshua Boyle
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    Nigeria, West Africa Increasingly Beset by Kidnappings, Terrorism
    While much of the world has been focused on combating the global coronavirus pandemic, extremist and criminal groups have been carrying out kidnapping-for-ransom raids on Nigerian schools with the hopes of extorting local populations. The Daily Signal has reported on those developments previously, but the situation has not improved. In early July, following six days…
    Alexander Jelloian | Patrick Tyrrell
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    Building on an Effective Africa Development Strategy
    With President Joe Biden’s intent to “revive” the Trump administration’s approach to relationship-building in Africa, to deliver effective commercial engagement across African markets, the Biden administration must build on recent successes and continue the strong starting point. The administration announced on July 29 its intent to engage Africa through commercial diplomacy and to reinforce its…
    Ned Rauch-Mannino
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    Coming to America: Africans, Caribbeans Flock to ‘Systemically Racist’ US
    If AmeriKKKa is so bigoted, why do Africans and Caribbeans leave black-run, predominantly black nations and come to the United States of America, which the Democrat left condemns as Earth’s headwaters of “systemic racism” and white supremacy? According to the most recent Department of Homeland Security data, 548,891 African immigrants became permanent U.S. residents between…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Pastor and Rabbi Work to End Persecution of Christians in Africa
    Radical Muslims are persecuting thousands of Christians in the West African nation of Nigeria. Much of the Western world knows little about the hardships these Christians face, but the Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper hope to change that.  Moore and Cooper, two globally recognized human rights advocates, co-authored the new book “The Next…
    Virginia Allen
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    Millions in Africa Being Sacrificed to Extreme Poverty, Premature Death on Altar of ‘Green Energy’
    Obama-era policies that favor so-called green energy over coal-fired electricity are dooming millions of Africans to lives of extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and increased risk of early death, according to a new analysis by the CO2 Coalition. The study by the Arlington, Virginia-based coalition of 60 climate scientists and energy engineers contends that inadequate access…
    Gregory Wrightstone
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    US Africa Institute Latest Example of America’s Leadership on COVID-19
    American leadership is clear as COVID-19 continues to wreak damage around the globe, including over a million deaths worldwide and trillions of dollars in lost economic growth. In leading the response globally, the State Department recently said, the U.S. allocated more than $1.6 billion in “emergency health, humanitarian, economic, and development assistance aimed at helping…
    Brett Schaefer | Joshua Meservey
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    Under Jihadi Siege, Christians in West Africa Are Praying for a Miracle
    “One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso,” the The Washington Post reported, “and ordered people who had been chatting outside to lie down. Then the armed strangers checked everyone’s necks, searching for jewelry. They found four men wearing crucifixes—Christians. They executed them … .” Burkina Faso is one of several vulnerable African…
    Lela Gilbert
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    African Nations Shouldn’t Let COVID-19 Sink Continental Free Trade Agreement
    What would have been the world’s most extensive free trade zone since the formation of the World Trade Organization was supposed to go into effect July 1. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the launch date into doubt. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is an ambitious attempt to reduce trade restrictions among all 55…
    Joshua Meservey | Jamie Ramirez Hashem
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    Author Argues African Americans Gained Ground Under Trump’s Leadership
    President Donald Trump’s policies are helping minority communities across America. Today, Horace Cooper, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and co-chairman of Project 21, joins the show to discuss his new book “How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump.”…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why These African American Leaders Reject the Left’s Victim Narrative
    The reality of racism in America has led to cries for justice across the nation, as the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis sparked peaceful protests as well as violence and looting. But conservative African American leaders say they’re concerned that the message being sent to the nation’s black community…
    Virginia Allen
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    We ‘Need a Change in Hearts’: African American Explains Why He Organized a Prayer Walk
    Louis Brown, an African American man, organized a “rosary walk” in Washington, D.C., in response to the death of George Floyd. Brown, who is the executive director of health care nonprofit Christ Medicus Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss why he did this, and the importance of prayer in these times. We also…
    Katrina Trinko
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