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If this week didn’t give all of us a reason to vote, we can just forget what happens on November 3rd and forget what happens in our lives for years to come.

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Howell, Lembhard Goldstone (1936- )

Lembhard G. Howell is a prominent Seattle attorney practicing in Seattle since 1966. Howell’s career has been dedicated to seeking justice for individuals who have been injured and unfairly treated. Howell was the first African American to serve on the board of governors of the Association of Trial

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May

2

1936

Impeach Kavanaugh and Thomas – Florida Courier

Now is not the time for hand wringing. Now is not the time to surrender in the face of aggressive White supremacy bent upon establishing a new Jim Crow era to oppress Black people for the financial gain of White Americans. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand and tell the

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Source: Florida Courier

Texas Southern University (1947- )

Texas Southern University, a state-supported institution of higher learning located just southeast of downtown Houston, was established on March 3, 1947 when the Fiftieth Texas State Legislature passed a bill establishing a Negro University with a law school to be located in Houston. This bill

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Fourteenth Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court decision in Slaughterhouse cases began process of diluting the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court said the Fourteenth Amendment protected federal civil rights, not Civil rights heretofore belonging exclusively to the states.

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Apr

14

1873

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi is Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm that invests in infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water sectors in both OECD and select emerging markets countries since 2006. Previously, Ogunlesi was Executive Vice

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Scipio Africanus Jones: Prominent Attorney Best-Known for Defense of the “Elaine 12”

Scipio Africanus Jones was a prominent Little Rock attorney and businessman. He was chief counsel to the Arkansas NAACP and his private clients included the Prince Hall Masons, Knights of Pythias, and other black fraternal organizations. He is best known for his defense of the 'Elaine 12,' who

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Source: Black Then

African-American History Timeline: 1850 to 1859

The 1850s were a turbulent time in American history. For African-Americans—freed and enslaved— the decade was marked by great achievements as well as setbacks. For instance, several states established personal liberty laws to counter the negative impact of the Fugitive Slave Law of

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Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was the first African American Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Marshall was also famous for his historic victory on the ‘Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka’ Case, which ended the racial segregation of public

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Jan

24

1993

John S. Rock, lawyer and dentist died on this day. He became the first Black to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1865.

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Dec

3

1866

Supreme Court Ruling for Separate and Equal

Supreme Court ruled in railroad Jim Crow case brought by Congressman Arthur Mitchell that separate facilities must be substantially equal.

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Apr

28

1941

8 transgender men and women killed in 7 days

NEW YORK — Brayla Stone, a 17-year-old Black trans girl, was murdered in Sherwood, Arkansas near Little Rock on June

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Thurgood Marshall announces retirement

US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, citing illness, announces his retirement from the nations highest court after 24 years of service.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jun

28

1991

AMHVoices: Bad leadership, greed tearing opposition apart

IT comes as no surprise that police have barred the gathering that had been planned to elect a replacement for the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai. By Kennedy Kaitano I have been advising the Thokozani Khupe-led faction that it should plan to hold the elections in a manner that

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Federal judge voids Georgia 'heartbeat' abortion restriction | The Atlanta Voice

A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat” abortion law, finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled against the state in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers and an advocacy group. Jones had temporarily blocked the law in

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Source: The Atlanta Voice

Laverne Cox Speaks Out On Supreme Court Ruling Protecting LGBTQ Workers

Yesterday (June 15), a conservative Supreme Court ruled that sexual orinetation and gender identiy is now included under Title VII, which bans discrimination on the basis of sex, race and national

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Juanita Jewel Shanks Craft (1902-1985) and the Long Civil Rights Movement in Texas

A small but growing number of black women are slowly being recognized for their contributions to the “long” civil rights movement, the nearly century-long struggle by African Americans against all forms of racial discrimination. In the account below University of Texas-El Paso

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Oct

4

2013

Sudan Does an About-Turn in U.S. Relations

Sudan's transitional government and the United States (US) are poised to reach an agreement for Khartoum to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to victims of a 1998 al-Qaeda

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Violette Neatley Anderson

Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court

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Jan

29

1926

DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974)

Argued February

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Newswire : Judicial battle looms with Ginsburg passing, Black leaders fear loss of civil rights gains

By Barrington M. Salmon and Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) - Civil rights leaders are alternating between sadness over the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and deep concern about what her death could mean to the composition of the US Supreme Court – and

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Chung counts on Supreme Court review

MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Having lost one vote in the magisterial count and enduring what he describes as the mishandling of voting, Manchester Central independent candidate Rohan Chung says he will be seeking justice in the Supreme Court. But not...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been

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Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history

The Post–Civil Rights era in African-American history is defined as the time period in the United States since Congressional passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, major federal legislation that ended legal segregation, gained federal

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First Thing: US has three months to prepare for second Covid-19 wave, say scientists

A group of nine leading scientists who advised President Barack Obama has warned that the US has just three months to rebuild its stockpile of emergency medical equipment if it wants to be prepared for a second wave of coronavirus in the

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Examining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Complicated Legacy On Race

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death drew attention to her decades-long career on the bench that had its ups as well as its downs when it came to the topic of race.

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Source: NewsOne

We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

Seven prominent Black women activists have made a strong case, and a bit of stir, in a Washington Post Op-Ed, “Biden Still Needs Black

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AMHVoices: Khupe shredding MDC constitution

THE feud within the MDC family is a result of the perception by the Supreme Court that processes made to appoint people into positions, from the appointments of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as deputy presidents and that of Chamisa first as acting president and then as president were made ultra

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87 - TSDMemphis.com

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the champion for women’s rights, died on Friday evening from “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,” according to a statement from the Supreme Court of the United States. Known to many as “the Notorious RBG,” Ginsburg, 87, served more than 27 years on America’s highest

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

DeSantis doubles down on Supreme Court pick despite qualification controversies

… other “highly qualified and eligible African-American” applicants for the post. “I … never supported causes that advance African-American people or civil rights or … us who asked for an African-American on the Florida Supreme Court …

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Source: Pensacola News Journal | pnj.com

Byron R. White , in full Byron Raymond White (born June 8, 1917, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.—died April 15, 2002, Denver), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

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15

2002

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