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Reginald M. Turner, Jr.

Reginald M. Turner, Jr. is a highly accomplished corporate litigator, government affairs advocate and strategic advisor. He is a member of Clark Hill’s Executive Committee, Government Policy Group, and Labor and Employment Practice Group.

Turner is a Past President of the National Bar Association and Past President of the State Bar of Michigan. He is a Life Benefactor Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honor reserved to less than 1 percent of lawyers in each state.

Turner served as a White House Fellow under President Bill Clinton, and worked for U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretaries Henry Cisneros and Andrew Cuomo.

Turner is Chairman of the Detroit Public Safety Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vice Chairman of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and a Trustee of the Hudson-Webber Foundation.
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Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who was born on the 4th February 1913. She was popularly known as “The first lady of civil rights” and the “mother of the freedom movement”. She became prominent after she refused to move from her
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Donald, Arnold (1954- )
Arnold Donald is an American businessman and CEO of Carnival Corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida. He has held the position since 2013. Prior to this position, he was a senior executive at Monsanto in
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Juneteenth Will Be An Official Holiday In New York City Starting In 2021
Juneteenth, which marks the effective end of slavery in the United States, will become an official holiday in the country’s largest city beginning next year, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared
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US nears 100,000 pandemic deaths: Does Trump feel your pain? | The Atlanta Voice
As diverse as they were in eloquence and empathy, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama each had his own way of piercing the noise of catastrophe and reaching
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
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NYPD Officer in ‘Chokehold’ Video is Focus of Criminal Probe
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer suspended from duty after he was recorded Sunday putting a man in what the police commissioner said was a banned chokehold could face criminal charges for the second time in his
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Elders, Joycelyn Minnie (1933- )
Joycelyn Elders, the former U.S. Surgeon General, was born Minnie Lee Jones in Schaal, Arkansas on August 13, 1933 to Curtis and Hailer Jones; she added the name Joycelyn when she was in college. As the eldest of eight children of sharecroppers, Joycelyn Elders experienced extreme poverty in
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Source: Black Past
Sep
8
1993
Loretta Lynch
Loretta Lynch is the second woman to hold the job of Attorney General; Janet Reno held the job from 1993-2001 under President Bill Clinton… Loretta Lynch married Stephen Hargrove in 2007, according to the Associated Press.
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Coronavirus Pandemic And George Floyd Protests Highlight Health Disparities For Black People – Free Press of Jacksonville
Black people constitute nearly 13% of the U.S. population but made up 23% of all Covid-19 deaths as of June 3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
Cooper, J. Gary (1936– )
J. Gary Cooper, military, government, and business leader, was appointed United States Ambassador to Jamaica by President Bill Clinton in 1994. He was the first African American to occupy the position. Prior to his appointment, he had a distinguished military
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Source: Black Past
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Oct
2
1936
Juneteenth: A Day of Joy and Pain – and Now National Action | Afro
By AARON MORRISON and KAT STAFFORD, Associated Press
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
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Partin the Waters: Do not give legs to creeping fascism
She arrived in America with her father and family seeking liberty from an authoritarian black hearted oppressive regime that denied individual
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Huge turnout at Memorial rally for George Floyd at Cadman Plaza | New York Carib News
Photo courtesy Leonard McKenzie
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Two Lawyers Accused Of Throwing Molotov Cocktail At Empty Cop Car During Protest Could Face Life In Prison - Blavity
Two New York lawyers of color are facing the possibility of life in prison after being federally charged for throwing a Molotov cocktail at an empty police car, reports
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Cook, Suzan Denise Johnson (1957– )
Suzan Johnson Cook is a religious leader, pastor, motivational speaker, and diplomat who was born on January 28, 1957, in Harlem, New York. Her father, Wilbert Johnson, was a trolley driver and later founder of a successful security company, and her mother Dorothy Johnson, was a public school
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May
16
2011
California Gov.: Pro Sports Without Fans Possible in June
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks pro sports could be back playing in his state — without fans — in early
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
Wayne Brady And Bill Duke Are Now Honorary Members of Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. announced this weekend that they have inducted Wayne Brady and Bill Duke as an honorary
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Remembering Ron Brown; the first black person to head a major presidential cabinet position in U.S.
Brown attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where he became the first African American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, collegiate fraternity and as result, the national charter of SPE at Middlebury was rescinded and the fraternity became known as Sigma Epsilon, the Harlemworldmagazine.com
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Juneteenth Marks Day Last Enslaved People Freed
The next year, former slaves started celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston, and it eventually reached other
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
Rodney E. Slater
Rodney E. Slater is a Partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP. In this role, Slater practices in the areas of transportation, infrastructure and public policy. Slater possesses substantial federal and state regulatory and public policy
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Rice, Susan Elizabeth (1964- )
Susan Rice is the current National Security Advisor for the Barack Obama Administration.  She is the first African American, the third woman, and the second youngest person to hold the position.  Prior to being selected by President Obama for the post, Rice served as a key foreign policy advisor
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Source: Black Past
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Nov
17
1964
Harrowing Blame Game Over COVID-19 Toll In Nursing Homes | Afro
The Trump administration has been pointing to a segment of the industry — facilities with low federal ratings for infection control — and to some Democratic governors who required nursing homes to take recovering coronavirus
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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority
Multiple Governors Announce Openness To Live Sports Without Fans
As states around the country continue to relax social distancing guidelines involving in-person meetings, a chorus of governors have announced their openness to live sports events in the immediate future, with some offering their states as test sites for teams and leagues looking to restart
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Slater, Rodney (1955- )
Rodney E. Slater, former cabinet member, attorney, and state government official, was born in Marianna, Arkansas, on February 23, 1955.  In 1977, Slater graduated from Eastern Michigan University. He earned his law degree in 1980 from the University of
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Source: Black Past
Feb
23
1955
West, Togo D., Jr. (1942- )
Togo D. West Jr., attorney and government official, was born on June 21, 1942 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Togo D. West, Sr. and Evelyn Carter West. In 1959 he graduated as valedictorian from Atkins High School in that same city.   In 1965, West enrolled at Howard University, earning his
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Jun
21
1942
Braun, Carol Moseley (1947- )
Carol Moseley Braun was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 16, 1947. She attended the Chicago Public Schools and received a degree from the University of Illinois in 1969.  She earned her degree from the University of Chicago Law School in
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Jan
14
2004
Video Shows NYPD Cop Choking Black Man Weeks After Eric Garner Anti-Chokehold Act Is Passed
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Philip Emeagwali
The early life of Philip Emeagwali seemed destined for poverty in his native land of Nigeria. He was the oldest of nine children and his father, who worked as a nurse’s aide, earned only a modest income. As a result, at age 14, Philip was forced to drop out of school in Onitsha. Because he had
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Nov
26
2012
Mary Frances Berry
Mary Frances Berry , (born Feb. 17, 1938, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.), American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist whose public service included work in three presidential administrations. From 1980 to 2004 she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, serving as chairwoman from 1993
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Meharry Medical College (1876- )
Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 in Nashville, Tennessee, is the second oldest medical school for African Americans in the nation.   The college was established by the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Freedman’s Aid Society in 1876 when Samuel Meharry, a Scots-Irish immigrant salt trader
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Prosper, Pierre-Richard (1963– )
Pierre-Richard Prosper is an attorney and diplomat who turned his passion for the rule of law into a global pursuit for justice for victims of the worst crimes of humanity, and accountability for the perpetrators of those
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Source: Black Past
Sep
11
2001

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