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During the ceremony, around 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. As many as 4,000 were reported killed in one of these ceremonies in 1727. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Most of the victims were sacrificed through decapitation, a tradition widely used by Dahomean kings, and the literal translation for the Fon name for the ceremony Xwetanu is "yearly head ...
Muhiyidin El Amin Moye (April 22, 1985 – February 6, 2018), also known as Muhiyidin d'Baha, was a leading Black Lives Matter activist known nationally for crossing a yellow police tape line to snatch a Confederate battle flag from a demonstrator on live television in Charleston, South Carolina, in February 2017.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Texas. It includes both current and historical newspapers. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The history of such newspapers in Texas begins shortly after the Civil War , with the publication of The Free Man's Press in 1868.
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Nine-Night, also known as Dead Yard, is a funerary tradition originating in West Africa and practiced in Caribbean countries (primarily Jamaica, Belize, Antigua, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Trinidad, and Haiti). It is an extended wake that lasts for several days, with roots in certain West African religious traditions. During ...
The channel was launched on September 13, 1999 as News 8 Austin. [2] The channel changed its name to YNN Austin (for "Your News Now") on January 10, 2011, [3] as part of gradual transition to a uniform brand for most of Time Warner Cable's other regional news channels that originated the year prior on its Buffalo and Rochester news channels in New York.
Lindsay Liepman, a news anchor in central Texas, tearfully informed viewers that her co-anchor, Kris Radcliffe, had died.. On Wednesday (October 30), Liepman announced during a live broadcast that ...
WFAA (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Decatur-licensed independent station KFAA-TV (channel 29), which provides a full-market high definition simulcast of WFAA's main channel on its UHF physical channel assigned to channel 8.8, due to long-term ...