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Andile Lungisa given until Thursday to begin his jail term - NPA | News24

ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa has until Thursday to hand himself over to the correctional services department, the National Prosecuting Authority says.

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(1850) John S. Rock, “Address to the Citizens of New Jersey”

Philadelphia Dentist John S. Rock would eventually become a medical doctor and attorney who in 1865 would become the first African American lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court. In 1850, however, he was also an abolitionist and civil rights activist. In that year 25 year

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1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts

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GECOM Chair opts out of CCJ hearing | New York Carib News

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 29, CMC – The chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh has said she will not ‘actively participate” in the appeal filed by the two senior members of the main opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in relation to

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Ben Jealous - Wikipedia

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Sudan: We are not paying, yet, for bombings

Sudan’s decision on compensating victims of 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Dar es Salaam will only be made after another court

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Housing discrimination banned

Supreme Court banned racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing.

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The Drama is Over: Houston’s District B Race Cleared for Runoff between Tarsha Jackson and Cynthia Bailey - Houston Forward Times

Appeals court denied legal challenge from Renee Jefferson-Smith, who says she is moving on ABOVE:… The post The Drama is Over: Houston’s District B Race Cleared for Runoff between Tarsha Jackson and Cynthia Bailey appeared first on Houston Forward Times.

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Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court

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1971

U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end

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1969

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(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”

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African-American History Timeline: 1850 to 1859

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By the rivers of Babylon - Dallas Examiner

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Supreme Court Says Fast-Tracking Deportations Okay

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April 3, 1944. The US Supreme Court, in an 8-1 ruling declared that Blacks could not be barred form voting in the Texas Democratic primaries. The high court repudiated the contention that political parties are private associations and held that discrimination aginst Blacks violated the 15th

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1944

Outstanding Criminal Lawyer

William H. Lewis (1869-1949), long recognized as one of Boston's outstanding criminal lawyers, was the first African-American to hold the position of Assistant United States Attorney General, appointed by President Taft in 1911.

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1998: US President Bill Clinton opens a State visit to China in Tiananmen Square, where a protest movement for democracy was brutally suppressed nine years

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283 Africans were recaptured on American Shores

On Thursday, June 29, 1820, at 3:00 P.M., nineteen years before the Amistad incident, 283 African slaves (two dead and 281 were in chains) were aboard a slave vessel named The Antelope, when they were recaptured by the United States Treasury cutter Dallas, under the command of John Jackson. The

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Jul

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1827

Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece : TheGrio

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AMHVoices: Khupe shredding MDC constitution

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June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage

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Wheatley, Integrity Commission head to court over report

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Supreme Court decision

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Mar

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1927

Adams, Jr., Oscar (1925–1997)

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Supplier disappointed with Williams’ tablets statement - Parties head to mediation over schools project

Stephen Wedderburn, ICT project manager of GeoTechVision, has reacted, saying that he was disheartened by Williams’ “false” statement, adding that it could be prejudicial to a dispute before the courts between GeoTech Vision and the state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited over the

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Texas Southern University (1947- )

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Another rejection for Caricel

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