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West lacks moral high ground to lecture us on human rights
… country that continues to treat African-Americans as second class citizens through … in America particularly Latinos and African-Americans who over the years have …
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Uganda: All Arms of Government Are Subordinate to Constitution
[Monitor] In Uganda's constitutional order, there are three arms of governance namely; the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. These three arms of government are all subordinate to the Constitution from which they derive authority.
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Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity – Dallas Post Tribune
By COLLEEN LONG WASHINGTON (AP) — Black people have been overrepresented on death rows across the United States and killers of Black people are less likely to face the death penalty than people who kill white people, a new report found. The report from the Death Penalty Information Center is
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Im ready to meet my God - Remembering Lena Baker, the only woman executed in Georgias electric chair - Face2Face Africa
Lena Baker was an African-American woman convicted of killing her white employer Ernest Knight by the State of Georgia in 1944 at the age of 44. The only woman executed in Georgias electric chair, Baker was sentenced to death by an all-white, all-male jury after a trial that lasted just one day. At
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No budgetary support for Zim yet: EU
EU ambassador to Zimbabwe Timo Olkkonen, speaking in an interview with the Alpha Media Holdings-owned Heart and Soul TV yesterday said Zimbabwe was still failing to break from her past of corruption, human rights abuses and fiscal
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US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft - African American News Today - EIN News
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Chuck touts virtual courts as avenue to clear case backlog
Touting the benefits of the greater use of technology within the island’s courts, Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck this morning said that with the donation of audiovisual equipment worth over $85 million from the European Union, Jamaicans can look forward to saving time and
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Willie McGee: Executed in "Traveling" Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
Willie McGee: Executed in “Traveling” Electric Chair for the Alleged Rape of White Housewife
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Officer Garrett Rolfe Charged With Felony Murder In The Death Of Rayshard Brooks
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Africa: Is the Fight for Human Rights & Racial Justice Overriding the Coronavirus Risk?
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AMHVoices: Only reforms can save Zimbabwe
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Libya exhuming mass graves in western city, Tarhuna | Africanews
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Atlanta Police Call Out Sick Over Charges in Fatal Shooting | Afro
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Kato, David (c1964-2011)
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White Hands, Blue Uniforms, Black Death | Afro
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Kenyans protest police brutality in Nairobi - yet again | Africanews
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The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.
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The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945
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Human Rights Watch Calls For Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations A Century After Violence | The Oklahoma Eagle
www.washingtonpost.com By DeNeen L. Brown  On the eve of the 99th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Human Rights Watch released a report Friday demanding reparations for survivors and descendants of the violence, which left hundreds of black people dead and blocks smoldering. “No one
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UN rights office expresses alarm at Hong Kong arrests under new security law | New York Carib News
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