GLOBAL SPEAK SDG 10: Reduced Inequality SDG 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being

Bill Gates Pledges to Give Away His Wealth for Humanity

Bill Gates made his fortune with Microsoft over the past 25 years. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given away $100,000,000,000.00 (one hundred billion dollars) to fight childhood diseases like polio, malaria, measles, and childhood poverty. Much controversy and skepticism has surrounded his giving because of the growing reluctance to vaccines, especially during the […]

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SDG 10: Reduced Inequality

The Last Surviving Black Americans Who Were Born Into Enslavement

For many people, American slavery seems like a historically distant era. After all, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation back in 1863. And Juneteenth has been celebrated since June 19, 1866, a year after federal troops announced in Galveston, Texas, that the state’s more than 250,000 enslaved people were free. But those events are […]

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