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10pt;\">The CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE (CUNY DSI), a research unit of the City University of New York housed at The City College of New York, has announced the publication of their online academic and educational platform &#8220;First Blacks in the Americas,&#8221; the first digital bilingual platform devoted to disseminating the history of the early inhabitants of Black-African ancestry of today&#8217;s Dominican Republic, then a Spanish colony named La Espa\u00f1ola (Hispaniola, in English) that occupied the entire island of the same name, shared today by the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff6600; font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"http:\/\/firstblacks.org\/en\/summaries\/announcing-activation-of-website-long\/\" target=\"_self\">See 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