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Six-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect in Texas • EBONY
After the Supreme Court failed to act on a request to block the legislation, a Texas law that prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect on Wednesday, NPR reports. As the law is written, it allows citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who seeks to help
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Nigeria: Tenure - Okoro Is JAMB's Acting Registrar As NUC Holds Crucial Meeting
[Premium Times] Mr Okoro, who joined JAMB in 1993 as a programmer and appointed a deputy director in 2018, is said to be the most senior director in the establishment.
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Namibia: Top Court Rules in Favour of Lpm MPs
[New Era] An appeal Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb lodged at the Supreme Court against their suspension from parliament succeeded yesterday when three judges set aside the suspension and declared it unlawful and of no effect.
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SCOTUS ruling weakens voting rights; will Dems fight to save democracy? - DefenderNetwork.com
Congressional Democrats are facing renewed pressure to pass legislation that would protect voting rights after a Supreme Court ruling Thursday made it harder to challenge Republican efforts to limit ballot access in many states. The 6-3 ruling on a case out of Arizona was the
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Bus Boycott Ended
When the bus boycott ended on this say, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were national heros, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.
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Dec
21
1956
Timothy Loehmann Will Not Be Reinstated After Killing 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice
By Briasia Russ According to Insider, the Ohio Supreme Court denied to hear an appeal over the termination of former officer Timothy Loehmann after he shot and killed Tamir Rice.   RELATED: Feds decline charges against officers in Tamir Rice case 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot as he was playing
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Nankhumwa congratulates Symon Vuwa Kaunda on reclaiming Nkhata Bay Central constituency
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and DPP Vice President for the Southern Region Kondwani Nankhumwa has congratulated DPP's Symon Vuwa Kaunda following his victory in the Tuesday's parliamentary by-elections held in Nkhata Bay central constituency. The Nkhata Bay central constituency seat fell
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Archer, Dennis (1942- )
Although he has served as a public school teacher, attorney, and Michigan State Supreme Court Justice, Dennis Archer is best know as the Mayor of Detroit and the first African American to become president of the American Bar
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Jan
1
1942
Biden Administration Extends Eviction Moratorium, Potentially Rescuing Millions From Losing Housing - The Seattle Medium
“My hope is it’s going to be a new moratorium that in some way covers close to 90 percent of the American people or renters,” President Joe Biden told news reporters on
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Supreme Court upholds voter suppression measures in Arizona
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions in Arizona in a decision that could make it harder to challenge... View Article The post Supreme Court upholds voter suppression measures in Arizona appeared first on TheGrio.
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Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v
Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.
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3
1948
Wright, Jonathan J. (1840-1885)
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Susquehanna County in the northeastern corner of the state.  In 1858, Wright traveled to Ithaca, New York where he enrolled in the Lancasterian
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Americo-Liberians
Americo-Liberiansare Liberians of African American descent. They trace their ancestry tofreeborn and formerly enslaved African Americans who immigrated to Liberiain the 19th
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26
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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007
In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was
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Vuwa demands K600 million from MEC | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
Member of Parliament for Nkhatabay Central Symon Vuwa Kaunda wants Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to pay him K600 million compensation for the torture he suffered in defending his parliamentary seat. Kaunda through his lawyer, Leonard Mbulo, has written MEC over the claim for compensation. The
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Why Nairobi won't get a substantive governor soon - The Kenya News
Nairobi Deputy Governor Anne Kananu and NMS Director General Mohamed Badi during the disbursement of cheques to various women groups, youth and PWDs.[Samson Wire,Standard] Legal hurdles continue to hamper Nairobi Deputy Governor Anne Kananu’s ascension to governorship despite the court upholding
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Former Brazil Health Ministry official arrested in Senate - Stabroek News
BRASILIA,  (Reuters) - Drama erupted in Brazil’s Congress yesterday as a former Health Ministry official was arrested under the orders of the lawmaker leading a Senate inquiry into the government’s handling of the COVID-19
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Why anti-abortion laws like Texas's SB 8 are a danger to Black women
The Supreme Court allowing SB 8, also known as the heartbeat law, to take effect has now led to the The post Why anti-abortion laws like Texas's SB 8 are a danger to Black women appeared first on TheGrio.
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Egyptian Curricula Available On Speak Arabic Mobile Application As of Today - Min.
[Egypt Online] Minister of State for Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs Nabila Makram stressed on Sunday that Egyptian educational curricula will be available as of today on Etkalem Arabi (Speak Arabic) mobile application in a bid to preserve the Egyptian identity of young expatriates.
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Overhaul coming for Maxfield Park Children’s Home
Millions of dollars will be pumped into Maxfield Park Children’s Home over the next three to five years to transform the facility into a centre of excellence for childcare, State Minister Robert Morgan has pledged. Morgan, the junior minister in...
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Liberia: Supreme Court Justice Nagbe Grants Government's Petition to Block Brownie Samukai's Certification
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Nagbe has granted the Government of Liberia's request to order the National Elections Commission (NEC) to halt the certification of Lofa County Senator-elect J. Brownie Samukai, Jr.
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What does Haiti President Moïse's assassination mean for Haitians?
A coup is typically described as the removal or seizure of a government and its powers — technically an illegal... View Article The post What does Haiti President Moïse's assassination mean for Haitians? appeared first on TheGrio.
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Someone Need a Hug? MSNBC Panel Loses It Over ‘Racist,’ ‘Violent’ SCOTUS Ruling
… ” and legalized the banning of Black Americans from voting. Always one to … that is trying to disenfranchise African-American voters and what this decision … said that one percent of African-Americans and one percent of Native …
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Texas Abortion Ban Comes As Black Women Leaders Have Been Demanding Reproductive Justice
The Supreme Court's vote to keep in place Texas' restrictive abortion law that effectively undermines the historic Roe v. Wade decision is also a gut punch to the Black women who have long been demanding reproductive justice.
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'Executed Because They Were Black': Seven Young Black Men Electrocuted In 1949 Rape of White Woman Granted Posthumous Pardons by Virginia Governor
A group of Black men who were executed in the 1949 rape of a white woman were granted posthumous pardons by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Aug. 31. The
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Limp start to summer school
ClaudE Rowe was meeting several of his students for the first time on Tuesday, although he has been principal of Iris Gelly Primary School in Arnett Gardens since October. A count indicated that 35 students were present for face-to-face...
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Born in 1938 to a family in Monrovia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia. Before becoming actively involved in politics, especially that of her native country, Johnson travelled to the United States to acquire higher education after graduating from the College of West
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Kenya: Muruatetu Case - Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Applicable as Discretionary Maximum Punishment
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The decision in the famous Muruatetu case did not outlaw the death penalty, which is still applicable as a discretionary maximum punishment, the Supreme Court has directed.
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Mozambique: Nyusi Swears New Member of Supreme Court Into Office
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday recommended that the country's justice sector should exploit to the maximum the reforms under way in Mozambique, so that it can rise to new challenges.
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Supreme Court Ruled Against Lowering Sentences for Crack Cocaine Convictions - Atlanta Tribune
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia On Monday, June 14, the Supreme Court ruled that those convicted of possessing small amounts of crack cocaine are prohibited from seeking sentence reductions. Activists complained that the ruling is just another slap in
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