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Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination (1949)
Washington State Law Against Employment Discrimination
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Sierra leone
The trial of Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president, on charges of crimes against humanity began at a UN criminal court at The Hague in 2007. He was charged with abetting the violent rebel group in Sierra Leones civil war that was responsible for atrocities, which included hacking off the
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Obama Responds To George Floyd's Death: 'This Shouldn't Be Normal'
Former President Barack Obama on Friday spoke out against the death of George Floyd, saying he shares the same anguish that millions of other Americans
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Fort Valley State University (1939- )
Fort Valley State University, in Fort Valley, Georgia, is a four year liberal arts land grant school that is part of the University System of Georgia. It was formed in 1939 when Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School merged with the State Teachers and Agricultural College of
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12
1996
How The Crisis Is Making Racial Inequality Worse
In good times and bad, the black unemployment rate is typically double the white unemployment rate, says economist Valerie Wilson, who directs the Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think
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Ahmaud Arbery Is Being Criminalized In Death As Apparent Smears Try To Justify ‘Murder’
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Keyes, Alan L. (1950- )
A controversial and conservative Republican, Alan Lee Keyes has perhaps one of the most extensive resumes to date in public and political
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Trump deems churches 'essential', calls for them to reopen
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — President Donald Trump says he deems churches and other houses of worship “essential” and called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend despite the threat of spreading the novel
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King, Alveda (1951- )
Alveda King, a prominent conservative leader, evangelist, and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, as the first of five children of Alfred Daniel King and Naomi Barber King on January 22, 1951. Her father worked heavily in the civil rights movement and was a pastor
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22
1951
NAACP Launches #WeAreDoneDying Campaign, Empowering Black and Brown Communities to Take Action Against Senseless Killings of African Americans
The NAACP, the nation’s foremost social justice organization, has launched a campaign entitled #WeAreDoneDying, aimed at exposing the inequities embedded into the American healthcare system and the country at
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th President of the United States of America and the first African American to have held the post. He was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. His parents separated when he was an infant and divorced when he was 2 years
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20
2009
Memorial Day: Why veterans are particularly vulnerable to the...
This work revealed gaps in health care and financial support for veterans, even though they have the best publicly funded benefits in the
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, is half the size of Illinois. Guinea, in the north and east, and Liberia, in the south, are its neighbors. Mangrove swamps lie along the coast, with wooded hills and a plateau in the interior. The eastern region is
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William & Mary Law School Appoints First Black Dean
A. Benjamin Spencer has been named the new dean of William Mary Law School, the institution
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American Policing Has Always Been About Enforcing White Supremacy
The Brooklyn College professor and author of “The End of Policing,” and his academic peers, all experts in the history of American policing and police brutality, have been called on a lot since mass protests sprang up nationwide in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and
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(2008) Senator Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union"
Controversial remarks drawn from the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an unpaid campaign advisor to Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, and his pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, emerged as a lingering issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.  On March
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Mar
18
2008
Ingraham: Trump has delivered results for African-Americans, Biden has delivered 'hashtags' and 'slogans'
Laura Ingraham opind in her "Ingraham Angle" monologue Tuesday that the idea that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party will help African-Americans and minorities is not true -- in the wake of the violent protests and riots following George Floyd's death -- is not
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Gossett, Larry (1945-- )
Born on February 21, 1945 in Seattle to parents, Nelmon and Johnnie Carter Gossett, Larry Gossett has been a dedicated public servant for over 40 years. After graduating from Franklin High School, he was a VISTA volunteer in Harlem (1966-1967). Gossett attended the University of Washington, where
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Feb
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1945
Biden Urged To Pick Black VP, Not Klobuchar As Minneapolis Killing Stokes Racial Tensions
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Meet the clergy who won’t stop in-person preaching during COVID-19
Dozens of Christian conservative activists and clergy members defied Virginia’s stay-at-home order and gathered Saturday for a “Pray for VA, Pray for USA
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How Income Inequality Affects Minority Workers
It’s no secret that white households in the United States take in significantly more income than black and Latino households do, fueling racial inequality. What’s to blame for this discrepancy? It’s not just that whites work in higher paying jobs than their minority counterparts do. Even when
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2012
The Slaughter House Cases (1873)
? SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES.; THE BUTCHERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. THE CRESCENT CITY LIVE-STOCK LANDING AND SLAUGHTER-HOUSE COMPANY.; PAUL ESTEBEN, L. RUCH, J. P. ROUEDE, W. MAYLIE, S. FIRMBERG, B. BEAUBAY, WILLIAM FAGAN, J. D. BRODERICK, N. SEIBEL, M. LANNES, J. GITZINGER, J. P. A
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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil
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Black capitalism
Black capitalism is a movement among African Americans to build wealth through the ownership and development of businesses. Black capitalism has traditionally focused on African-American businesses, although some critics and activists have also pushed for increased representation of Blacks in
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Al Sharpton Announces March On Washington In August
Rev. Al Sharpton and George Floyd’s family are planning a march on Washington this
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Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves
The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special
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Michelle Obama: 'I’m Exhausted By A Heartbreak That Never Seems To Stop'
Former first lady Michelle Obama said it was “up to all of us — Black, white, everyone” to root out racism as she responded on social media to the death of George
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Barack Obama Issues Statement On The Death of George Floyd, “This Shouldn’t Be Normal In 2020 America”
The city of Minneapolis is burning literally, and figuratively, protestors are still demanding justice for George Floyd, and there isn’t a voice worth listening to coming out of the White
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Former President Barack Obama Speaks Out On George Floyd's Death
Former President Barack Obama spoke out today on the death of George Floyd in a statement posted via his Twitter
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Arrests in DC as activists take to the streets to support Minneapolis protesters
Multiple arrests occurred as hundreds of activists marched throughout Washington D.C. for George Floyd and his supporters Friday
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