How KC boys came to Wheatley's rescue at UWI

How a Supreme Court ruling changed Burke County politics

Burke County’s historically discriminatory method of electing county commissioners ended 38 years ago, July 1, 1982, when the U.S. Supreme Court found that the county’s at-large elections violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In a 6-3 decision, the

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Jonathan Jasper Wright

Jonathan Jasper Wright was the first Black state supreme court justice. He resigned on this day from the state supreme court in South Carolina after the overthrow of the Reconstruction government, and died in obscurity of tuberculosis.

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Dec

1

1877

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

Supreme Court ruling jeopardizes consumer protection - The Bay State Banner

A June 29 U.S. Supreme Court split decision represents a major setback to both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the consumers who have come to rely upon the agency. Since 2010, more than 25 million consumers were helped by the agency’s efforts that returned over $11

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Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion law

Supporters of abortion rights are elated, foes of abortion dismayed and angry, but they agree on one consequence of the Supreme Court’s first major abortion ruling since President Donald Trump took office: The upcoming election is crucial to their

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Zimbabwe: Chivayo Fraud Acquittal Reversed

[The Herald] The trial of Intratrek managing director Mr Wicknell Chivayo on a criminal fraud charge of US$5,6 million fraud involving Zimbabwe Power Company's Gwanda solar project, will now proceed after the Supreme Court yesterday reversed his acquittal by the High Court..

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Supreme Court Ruling Allows Employers To Opt-Out Of Birth Control Coverage For Religious Reasons

In a 7-2 ruling justices upheld regulations from the Trump administration, allowing employers with religious or moral objections to decline birth control coverage.

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Supreme Court rules Manhattan DA can obtain Trump taxes - The New York Beacon

WASHINGTON — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial records almost certainly

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Source: The New York Beacon - Arming Black Millennials With Information

U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 Decision Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Restrictions - New Orleans Data News Weekly

Data News Staff Edited Report In a country where abortion rights is still a controversial and divisive issue recently, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down a restrictive abortion law that would

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Louise Bennett-Coverley

the Hon Louise Bennett-Coverley is regarded as the mother of storytelling in the Caribbean. a jamaican , Miss Lou, as she is affectionately known studied at the Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts as a result of British Council Scholarship. She had her own BBC Radio programme called Caribbean

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Sep

7

1919

Thomas, Clarence

Thomas, Clarence, 1948–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991–), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black conservative active in Republican causes. He chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity

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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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Source: Black Past

May

2

1936

Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled

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Howell, Martha Ann Jane Stevens Perkins (1875–1954)

Martha Ann Jane Stevens Perkins Howell, born on January 20, 1875, was named for her maternal grandmother, Martha Vilate Crosby Flake, who had been a slave during the Mormon migration to the West. Martha Howell’s maternal grandfather was Green Flake, also born a slave, who was in the Vanguard

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Supreme Court says Congress can't get Trump records, for now : TheGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns,... View Article The post Supreme Court says Congress can’t get Trump records, for now appeared first on TheGrio.

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Court refuses to order Houston to host Texas GOP gathering - Black News Channel

By NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday upheld Houston's refusal to allow the state Republican convention to hold in-person events in the city due to the coronavirus pandemic. The court dismissed an appeal of a state district judge's denial of

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What it looks like inside Disney World as it reopens to the public - L.A. Focus Newspaper

Editor's Note — Julie Tremaine entered the Magic Kingdom just after 9 a.m. Saturday for CNN. She's an award-winning food and travel writer, and her work appears in Travel + Leisure and Forbes among others. Read her at

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Supreme Court Places Restrictions on California Church Re-Openings | L.A. Focus Newspaper

As facilities around California plan to reopen, restrictions are being put in place to protect the health and safety of residents, but some believe the guidelines to be too harsh. San Diego church South Bay United Pentecostal requested relief from Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent decision to limit

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

Web of corruption?

Academic friendships and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) affiliations were also flagged as the links that connected several key players to high-ranking officials, including Andrew Wheatley, the energy minister with responsibility for Petrojam and who was

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Integrity Commission accuses Wheatley of being dishonest

“It is the conclusion of the director of investigations that Dr Wheatley was dishonest in his aforementioned representations and, in this regard, sought to mislead and did mislead the director of investigation contrary to Section 48 (3) of the Integrity Commission Act, Section 11E of the Commission

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Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana abortion clinic law : TheGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his

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(1958) Orval E. Faubus, “Speech on School Integration”

In September 1957 Arkansas Democratic Governor Orval E. Faubus became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students who had been ordered by a federal judge to desegregate Little Rocks Central High School. His

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Zimbabwe: Kereke in Fresh Freedom Bid

[New Zimbabwe] Jailed former Zanu-PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has approached the High Court seeking to take his appeal against conviction and sentence to the Supreme Court for the second time.

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Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court said Monday that states can punish members of the Electoral College who break a pledge to vote for a states popular vote winner in presidential elections. The case comes as the election season is heating up, putting the Electoral

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Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin was an important figure in the civil rights movement. She was born on September 5, 1939. At birth, she was adopted by C. P. Colvin and Mary Anne Colvin, who lived in a poor neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama. This was a time of intense racial divide, and Colvin was a victim of it

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Mar

2

1955

Chiwenga wins children’s custody - NewsDay Zimbabwe

THE Supreme Court has set aside a recent High Court judgment and granted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga custody of his three minor children following protracted legal battles with estranged wife, Mary Mubaiwa. BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Before yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, High Court judge

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

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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Supreme Court ordered school integration "with all

Supreme Court ordered school integration with all deliberate speed.

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May

31

1955

(1955) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., "Speech on Civil Rights"

On February 2, 1955, New York Representative Adam Clayton Powell, then one of only three African Americans in the U.S. Congress, rose to argue that his colleagues should support two pending civil rights bills then before the House of Representatives. His speech appears

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Feb

2

1955

Townsend, Willard S. (1895-1957)

African American labor leader Willard S. Townsend was born on December 4, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Willard and Cora Elizabeth Townsend. In 1938 he organized railway workers of several Chicago, Illinois stations to form the International Brotherhood of Redcaps and remained the union’s president

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Feb

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1957

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