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Attorney Brown comes through, again | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson is the unquestioned authority on the history of Maryland’s Black lawyers. And he chronicled part of that history in his seminal biography of Thurgood Marshall’s early years, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. In it he relays […]

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By Errika Bridgeford As teenagers, Mike and Jerri were very sure of a decision they’d made together: “We will have a boy who will change the world. We will name him Malcolm (after Malcolm X) Patrice (after Patrice Lumumba) Thomas.” In October of 1972, they birthed a girl, but they were not

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By The Associated Press The White woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him while being filmed at a New York City hotel apologized—somewhat—but defended her actions in a television interview conducted before she was arrested in California. 'I consider myself

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Citi Launches More Than $1 Billion in Strategic Initiatives to Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap | Afro

By BlackPressUSA Visit Citi’s Action for Racial Equity site. New York via NNPA – Citi and the Citi Foundation today announced more than $1 billion in strategic initiatives to help close the racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the United States. Citi’s Action for Racial Equity is

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NPR Board of Directors Elects WYPR’s LaFontaine E. Oliver As Board Chair | Afro

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LDF Statement on the Senate Vote Confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court | Afro

LDF Statement on Today’s Senate Vote Confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney

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11th Annual Triumph Awards: Virtual show honors Black changemakers | Afro

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Op-ed: Non-Traditional Public Health Messengers | Afro

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Keep Politics Out Of The Coronavirus Vaccine Approval Process | Afro

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2021 symposium events-at-a glance | Afro

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Oakland Protesters Set Fire to Courthouse and Vandalize | Afro

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Press Release: Tanya Jones Terrell Joins BGE as Director of Corporate Community Impact | Afro

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