{"id":2189,"date":"2015-03-24T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/today-in-african-american-history-birthday-of-w-e-b-dubois\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:13:24","slug":"today-in-african-american-history-birthday-of-w-e-b-dubois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepassportoffice.com\/blog\/today-in-african-american-history-birthday-of-w-e-b-dubois\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in African <b>American<\/b> history: Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today in African <b>American<\/b> history: Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230; and activists for African American liberation was born on this date in 1868 in Great Barrington, Mass. &quot;The cost of liberty,&quot; he wrote in 1909, &quot;is less than the price of repression.&quot; &#8230; Nevertheless, the government confiscated Du Bois&#39;s passport &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/peoplesworld.org\/today-in-african-american-history-birthday-of-w-e-b-dubois\/\">People&#8217;s World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Families warned of delays for ferries<\/strong><br \/>\nIf the passport checks cause serious problems, we will look at the possibility of rescheduling certain sailings in order to accommodate customers who have been delayed by heavy queuing. We operated this system in Calais at the end of last summer when &#8230;<br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connexionfrance.com\/Channel-ferry-passport-checks-Brockenshire-16748-view-article.html\">The Connexion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Audit Cell, a hit among <b>passport<\/b> applicants<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWe receive over 40 applicants every day and information sought is given to them with prints free of cost,\u201d Regional Passport Officer K. Balamurugan said. \u201cThe Social Audit Cell is almost an RTI cell without charging a fee. 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