Tubman

Popular With Trump, Will Jackson Stay On the $20 Bill?

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President Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for his 19th century predecessor Andrew Jackson is stoking fears he may cancel plans to replace that controversial president on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Treasury Department announced a year ago that by 2020 it would remove slave-owner Jackson’s likeness in favor of an image of Tubman, an … Read more

Complete Biography & Profile of E. T. Mensah,

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Died: July 1996 Mensah pioneered the development of the swing-jazz influenced highlife dance-bands that were so popular throughout West Africa in the 1950’s and 60’s. Indeed, these urban dance bands became the musical zeitgeist of the optimistic period of early independence. Their successful use of sophisticated western instruments to play African tunes mirrored the fact … Read more