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Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution - Black News Channel
By MICHAEL TARM and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The Trump administration early Saturday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run that concluded just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden — an opponent of the
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Black Saints Waiting Outside the Pearly Gates | Afro
But Baltimore City because of its other public health plague—unceasing crime and violence—could doubly use a patron saint, And who better than Mother Mary Lange, foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence to fulfill that
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Reprieve for Pervis Payne execution cause for celebration of family, friends - TSDMemphis.com
A team that includes clergy, legal representatives, clinical mental health professionals and legislators are celebrating Pervis Payne’s temporary reprieve from execution, while working on dual fronts to see that Payne receives clemency and gets released from prison. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, citing
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In Wake of Protests, Bangladesh Approves Death Penalty for Rape | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Bangladesh approved the death penalty for rape on Oct 13, after days of protests on the streets and on social media against the high incidents of sexual violence against women in the country. There has been a recent spike in sexual crimes in Bangladesh, with nearly 1,000 incidents reported from
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Commentary: Are you ready to execute this man, South Carolina?
… death. He is the last African American who was given the death … . The prosecution struck all the African Americans from the jury pool. It …
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Trump Moves Tulsa Rally So It Won't Fall On Juneteenth
President Donald Trump moved a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so it would no longer fall on June 19th, or Juneteenth, the day commemorating Black emancipation from
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SOS Caravan calls for Federal and state action at Montgomery Federal Courthouse
Leaders called on federal and state officials to take action now to save lives in the coronavirus pandemic overwhelming Alabama and killing Blacks at least three times the rate of
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Youth gets seven years for bludgeoning man to death - Stabroek News
A 20-year-old, who beat a man to death with a hammer while he was a teenager, was on Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison on a manslaughter charge. The article Youth gets seven years for bludgeoning man to death appeared first on Stabroek News.
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The Justice Department Is Pausing Federal Executions After They Resumed Under Trump
Attorney General Merrick Garland cited the impact of federal executions on inmates of color and the recent exonerations of people on death row. The department will its review policies and procedures.
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Brothers’ killings add to August Town woes
Awakened by explosions and screams in August Town on Wednesday morning, Hyacinth Brown’s* memories rolled back to the 2018 death of her grandson and she wondered if gunmen had made good on their promise to return for
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'He'd still be alive!' Ledell Lee executed – but evidence may prove his innocence
Ledell Lee from Arkansas was sentenced to death for the murder of his neighbour, but he had long maintained his innocence
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Jonson was born two months after his father died. His stepfather was a bricklayer, but by good fortune the boy was able to attend Westminster School. His formal education, however, ended early, and he at first followed his stepfather’s trade, then fought with some success with the English forces in
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Wants Death Penalty for Travis and George McMichael: ‘My Son Died, So They Should Die as Well’
Ahmaud Arbery’s mother wants Travis and George McMichael to pay the ultimate price for her son’s shooting
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Officer involved in Rayshard Brooks shooting facing 11 charges
Murder charges were handed down Wednesday against, Garrett Rolfe, the white Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back, stating that Brooks posed no threat and that the officer violated his oath kicking him and not offering medical treatment for over
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82 advocacy groups call on Biden to end federal executions — The Sacramento Observer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump and to commute the sentences of inmates on federal death row. The
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(1867) Thaddeus Stevens, “Reconstruction”
In 1867 Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner led the campaign for full voting rights for African Americans across the nation.  In the speech below which Stevens gave in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 3, 1867 supporting the Reconstruction
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Prosecutors opposed, Democrats divided on death penalty ban - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
… . Parry, an assistant professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at … to the fact that while African Americans make up just 9 percent …
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Former Atlanta Police Officer Charged With Felony Murder in the Killing of Rayshard Brooks – Your Black World
The Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney’s Office announced during a Wednesday (June 17) press conference that a former Atlanta police officer has been charged with
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Martin Luther King Jr. is often the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of a civil rights movement
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Rayshard Brooks Killing: $200K Raised For Ex Police Officer Charged With Murder
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The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945
Pan-Africanist ideals emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to European colonization and exploitation of the African continent. Pan-Africanist philosophy held that slavery and colonialism depended on and encouraged negative, unfounded categorizations of the race, culture, and values of
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African American History and Women Timeline 1700-1799
[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1700-1799 New York passed a law prohibiting public gatherings by three or more enslaved Africans, prohibiting testimony in court by enslaved Africans against white colonists, and prohibiting trade with enslaved Africans. Virginia Slave Codes of 1
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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Julius Jones And Edward J. Perkins; A Life Worth Remembering | The Oklahoma Eagle
Julius Jones Deserves A Fair Hearing Not The Death Penalty America has a horrible history of capital punishment and worse, executing the wrong man or woman. Oklahoma is the worst of the worse. Julius Jones sits on death row and by many accounts should have never been charged let alone sentenced to
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(1918) Rev. Francis J. Grimke, “Victory for the Allies and the United States a Ground of Rejoicing, of Thanksgiving”
Francis J. Grimke was born a slave in Charleston, South Carolina on November 4, 1850.  After the war he and his older brother, Archibald, went north to Lincoln University.  Francis graduated from Lincoln in 1870.  After working briefly at Lincoln, Grimke attended Princeton Theological Seminary from
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Civil Rights Act of 1960
AN ACT To enforce constitutional rights, and for other
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Kato, David (c1964-2011)
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Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic
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Ex-Police Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged With Felony Murder
A district attorney in Atlanta charged a former police officer with felony murder in Friday's shooting death of Rayshard
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