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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 29, CMC – The chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh has said she will not ‘actively participate” in the appeal filed by the two senior members of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in relation to
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A Brief History of the San Diego NAACP, 1917-2007
In 1917, realizing the hunger for social justice among the one thousand African American residents of San Diego, W. E. B. DuBois traveled from Los Angeles to San Diego as part of his western states tour on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  Having
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2 Brothers Change Minds, Will Cooperate in Smollett Case
CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers who admitted helping actor Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago last year are again willing to help in the case after initially saying they were done cooperating with prosecutors, their attorney said
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(1993) Lani Guinier, “Seeking a Conversation on Race"
By 1993 Lani Guinier, a Yale Law School graduate, had crafted an impressive career as an NAACP attorney who specialized in voting rights cases, member of the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and special assistant in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in the Carter
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4
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Shooting of Michael Brown
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Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team - TheGrio
Former President Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team just one day after it was revealed that he... View Article The post Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team appeared first on TheGrio.
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Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark , in full William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927, Dallas, Texas), human rights lawyer and former U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon
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18
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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves
The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special
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Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Expected to Plead Guilty in Review of Russia Inquiry - The New York Beacon
ByAdam Goldman WASHINGTON — A former F.B.I. lawyer intends to plead guilty after he was charged with falsifying a document as part of a deal with prosecutors conducting their own criminal inquiry of the Russia investigation, according his lawyer and court documentsmade public
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Tamla Horsford's Case To Be Reopened After Significant Outcry
An investigation into Tamla Horsford’s death is being reopened after significant public outcry and a request from her
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Slavery and Freedom on the Minnesota Territory Frontier: The Strange Saga of Joseph Godfrey
New York historian Walt Bachman introduces Northern Slave, Black Dakota, his new biography of Joseph Godfrey, an African American who was born into slavery in the free territory that became Minnesota, fled from abusive masters to seek refuge among the Dakota Indians, and was a principal figure in
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Investigation Launched Against White Couple Who Aimed Guns At Protesters
A white couple in St. Louis pictured holding a handgun and a semiautomatic rifle aimed at a group of Black protesters who had taken to the streets calling for the resignation of Mayor Lyda Krewson on
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Fix The Damn Schools!
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Atlanta police insist they can still handle emergencies
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s police department said Thursday that it can still police the city even if officers are calling in sick to protest efforts to impose
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Johnson, Jeh (1957 - )
Jeh (pronounced “Jay”) Charles Johnson, a civil and criminal trial lawyer, is the current U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1979 and obtained his J.D. from Columbia University in 1982. Nominated by President Barack Obama in October
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Congressman, attorney, diplomat, dean of the law school and president of Howard University, John Mercer Langston was born, 1829
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Paul Manafort Just Got Out of Prison Years Early Because of Coronavirus
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Two lawyers of color facing 45 years for burning police car
(Credit: U.S. Attorney's office) Two lawyers of color who were arrested in May following the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death are facing a potential of 45 years in prison. HuffPost reported that Colinford King Mattis and Urooj Rahma were arrested on May 30 in Brooklyn dur
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1st Black chariman of P.C.G.E.P.
Archibald J. Carey, Chicago minister and attorney, appointed first Black chairman of Presidents Committee on Government Employment Policy.
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1957
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Jurors Have The Case In Chauvin Trial; Prosecutors Ended With Call For Common Sense
Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said what happen to George Floyd last May was "so simple that a child could understand it." Blackwell quoted a 9-year-old witness who said, "Get off him."
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Testimony: Shooter used racist slur as Arbery lay dying | The Atlanta Voice
In a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a murder trial, the lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that Travis and Greg McMichael and a third man in another pickup, William “Roddie” Bryan, used their trucks to chase down and box in
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Lawyer says white woman attacked Skhylur Davis because she was black
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — A white woman is charged with assaulting an 11-year-old black girl, Skhylur Davis in what the girl’s lawyer calls a racially motivated
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Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke , in full Edward William Brooke (born October 26, 1919, Washington, D.C.—died January 3, 2015, Coral Gables, Florida), American lawyer and politician who was the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served two terms
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2 Lawyers Of Color Face 45-Year Sentences — For Vandalism – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Ahmaud Arbery's tragic final run grips an anxious America | The Atlanta Voice
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(1850) John S. Rock, “Address to the Citizens of New Jersey”
Philadelphia Dentist John S. Rock would eventually become a medical doctor and attorney who in 1865 would become the first African American lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court.  In 1850, however, he was also an abolitionist and civil rights activist.  In that year 25 year
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