Monthly Archives: August 2006

Marching For Freedom: Ex-slave Simon Deng Plans New Walk to Spotlight Sudan’s Plight

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From The New York Daily News
BY HEATHER ROBINSON

August 31, 2006

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It was “desperation” to raise awareness about the plight of black Africans in his native land of Sudan, Simon Deng says, that prompted the Harlem resident to walk the 300 miles from the United Nations to …