Superior Court Magistrate Division Closed for Sanitization, Set to Reopen on Jan. 4

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Left of Black with Kimberly Ellis and Randal Jelks

Season 1, Episode 29

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Confederate monument in Decatur targeted and removed

as a Confederate monument was removed from Georgia Square in

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Kelly, Sharon Pratt Dixon (1944- )

Sharon Pratt Dixon was born on January 30, 1944 in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlisle Pratt and Mildred (Petticord) Pratt. Carlisle was a Washington, D.C. Superior Court Judge. Mildred Pratt died of breast cancer when Sharon was four years old. Pratt’s father played a major role in her life by

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Jan

30

1944

Davis, Angela (1944--)

Angela Davis, activist, educator, scholar, and politician, was born on January 26, 1944, in the “Dynamite Hill” area of Birmingham, Alabama. The area received that name because so many African American homes in this middle class neighborhood had been bombed over the years by the Ku

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Aug

7

1970

Loving v. Virginia

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial

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Bill Cosby Allowed to Appeal His 2018 Sexual Assault Conviction

Cosby will now get to appeal two crucial elements of the conviction, which Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court announced on

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New prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery case refutes conflict of interest complaint

In a recent report published by Law.com, Cobb Judicial Circuit District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes, the fourth DA to be assigned the Ahmaud Arbery case, said that questions had been raised about a possible conflict of interest for her – although she made it clear she will proceed with the

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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System

In the following article Professor Malik Simba, an historian at California State University, Fresno describes his professional and personal odyssey that led to the writing of his book, Black Marxism and American Constitutionalism: From the Colonial Background through the Ascendancy of Barack

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Newcomers elected to Congress

Five newcomers elected to Congress: William Gray III (Pa.) Bennett Stewart (III.), Melvin Evans (R., Virgin Islands), Julian Dixon (Calif.) and George Leland (Tex.).

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Nov

7

1978

Eric Holder

Name at birth: Eric

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Difficulty In The Polls: Delays In The Voting Process

On Tuesday Chatham County voters headed to the polls for the long awaited primary

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2017 Video Shows Georgia Officer Tried To Stun Ahmaud Arbery

VIDEO

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Butterfield, George Kenneth, Jr. (1947– )

North Carolina Congressman George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. was born in Wilson, North Carolina on April 27, 1947 to a father who was a dentist and civic leader as well as the first black elected official in eastern North Carolina in the 20th century; and a mother who was a classroom teacher for 48

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Apr

27

1947

Legendary “After the Pain” soul singer Betty Wright dead at 66

“Betty Wright” rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as “Clean Up Woman” and “Tonight is the Night,” and later on telling women “Don’t blame Mr. Charlie, Mr. Charlie is just a man doing the best he

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(1879) Robert J. Harlan, “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs”

Between 1879 and 1880, six thousand Exodusters left Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas. Their migration, prompted by the end of racially-integrated Reconstruction governments, by anti-black violence and by sharecropping and tenant farming, brought national attention including a Congressional

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May

8

1879

COVID 19 testing at Project H.O.O.D | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Project H.O.O.D, a 501 c (3) organization located at 6330 S. Martin Luther King Drive hosted a two-day free COVID-19 testing event on Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June

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Left of Black with S. Craig Watkins

Season 1, Episode 22

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As For Me and My Church

On March 13, 2020, I decided to reach out to Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield and Presiding Elder Uklyn Hendricks about the immediacy of a shift to church gatherings within the Virgin Islands Annual

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The Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn, New York (1838- )

The Church of St. Mark in Brooklyn, New York was originally established by a group of black Episcopalians in 1838. The next year, Dr. Samuel M. Haskins was asked to be rector (pastor), the role he would maintain for 60 years. By April 1841 the congregation completed a Gothic style edifice in

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COVID-19: How Going to Jail Became A Death Sentence

We were granted a hearing by Superior Court Judge Vince Rozier and were encouraged by his May 1, 2020 ruling to order, adjudge and decree that the defendants, among other things, produce verified statements that “living conditions designed to reasonably prevent the spread of COVID-19, including but

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THREE MUSIC LEGENDS –

His passing followed the May 6 passing of music executive Andre Harrell, who succumbed to heart failure at age

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Federal judge says all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail during pandemic

District Judge Fred Biery granted a preliminary injunction that allows all registered voters to apply to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic after finding the state’s existing election rules violate the Equal Protection

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Omega Psi Phi

Omega Psi Phi (ΩΨΦ) is an international fraternity with over 750 undergraduate and graduate chapters. The fraternity was founded on November 17, 1911 by three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, and their faculty adviser, Dr. Ernest Everett Just. Omega

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Left of Black with Frank Stasio, Anthony Wilson, John Brown and Nnenna Freelon

Left of Black - Season 3, Episode 14

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Chad: As Chad's Problems Mount, What Role for Civil Society?

Despite Chad's economic woes and its citizens' frustration with elite impunity, its civil society organisations have struggled to mobilise into a coherent protest

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Tulsa police release body cam footage of jaywalking arrest

“I want every kid in Tulsa to feel safe to walk down the street in their neighborhood,” Tulsa Mayor

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Super-sized racism: Former McDonald’s execs strike back in explosive race discrimination lawsuit

However, that image was shattered this year in an explosive lawsuit brought by two African American female executives who claim that under new leadership the company not only deliberately divested from the Black community and businesses, but hurled racist, sexists insults at them including

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In Loving Memory of Dorothy Balenger Stanley

Dorothy Frances Balenger was born on August 11, 1927 to the union of Russell T. and Dorothy (nee: Adams) Balenger in

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Benjamin, Regina Marcia (1956– )

Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, is an accomplished physician whose professional and personal roots are planted deeply in rural America. Dr. Benjamin was nominated for the post by the President on July 13, 2009 and unanimously

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