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Zimbabwe: Chamisa Says Will Not Attend Khupe's 'Zanu-PF' Congress
[New Zimbabwe] Embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says he will not be part of the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T's extra-ordinary congress set for September this year.
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Clarence Thomas
Born: 6/23/948 Pin Point, GeorgiaClarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court.Business / Schooling:
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The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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1936
New Police Shootings Surface As George Floyd Protests Continue
Police shooting incidents are persisting despite outcry.
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Kanye West Gives $2 Million to Help Legal Teams of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, Plans to Cover College Costs for Floyds Daughter
Kanye West donated $2 million to the legal teams of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and has created a 529 college savings plan for Floyd's
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Colorado Reopens Inquiry into Elijah McClains 2019 Death
DENVER (AP) — Colorados governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to investigate the death of Elijah McClain, 23-year-old Black man who was put into a neck hold by police in suburban Denver last year. Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order directing state Attorney General Phil Weiser to
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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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On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president of the United States. He officially became the first African-American president when he was inaugurated on January
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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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[Previous] • (July) Venus Williams became the first African American to win the womens title at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson (1957-58) • Condoleezza Rice named as the next Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold that position • Arkansas named a state holiday for Daisy Bates, th
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Kyrie Irving’s New Streaming TV Special ‘#SayHerName: Breonna Taylor’ Seeks Justice for the 26-Year-Old Black EMT Killed By Cops
NBA star Kyrie Irving is teaming up with rapper Common, journalist Jemele Hill and several others for a unique television special seeking justice for Breonna []
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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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Trump Throws Twitter Temper Tantrum After Learning BLM Mural Will Be Painted In Front Of Trump Tower
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PNP bigwigs to face Privy Council in March
Another round in the ongoing Trafigura case involving several People’s National Party (PNP) bigwigs is to get under way on March 1 next year. The case involving former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, Phillip Paulwell, Robert Pickersgill,...
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(1860) Abraham Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address”
On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a presidential candidate who had yet to win the Republican nomination, accepted an invitation to speak to the Young Mens Republican Union at Cooper Union Hall before a capacity crowd of 1,500.  Lincoln used the occasion to outline his views on slavery in the
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Cigarette ban: Hope for smokers as FITA launch court appeal
Tobacco industry giants FITA will fight back against the government, as the cigarette ban now heads to one of the highest courts in the land.
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Milwaukee honors victims of police violence with inspiring murals
Moved by the protest over the deaths of George Floyd that had taken place over the last several days, Ihsan Atta, who owns the storage building at the corner of North Avenue and North Holton Street, decided he wanted to use the building for something more than just storage. Atta, a lover of
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In 1857, just a few years before the Emancipation Proclamation, a slave named Samuel Dred Scott lost a fight for his
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When a slave petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for his freedom, the Court ruled against him—also ruling that the Bill of Rights didnt apply to African Americans. If it did, the majority ruling argued, then African Americans would be permitted the full liberty of speech in public and in private, to
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Bus driver in China deliberately crashed and killed 21 after his house was demolished - L.A. Focus Newspaper
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Federal judge lets lawsuit go forward against Rochester cop, citing potentially racist remarks he allegedly made - African American News Today - EIN News
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Court Case of Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education ended with a Supreme Court decision that helped lead to the desegregation of schools throughout America. Prior to the ruling, African-American children in Topeka, Kansas were denied access to all-white schools due to laws allowing for separate but equal
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Khupe, Mwonzora aides clash - NewsDay Zimbabwe
POWER struggles have ripped the MDC-T faction apart ahead of its extraordinary congress slated for September, with interim leader Thokozani Khupe’s aides allegedly assaulted by party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora’s security staff at the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House party headquarters in
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Rihanna Demands Justice In Breonna Taylor Case, Calls Out Kentuckys Attorney General
Many have been blasting Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron since the three Louisville police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home this []
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Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.
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Cindy Robinson was 22 years old when she visited the Morant Bay Health Centre, located in St Thomas, for a routine tooth extraction in April 2007. The government-run clinic has disputed her claim of negligence during the procedure, but Robinson...
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
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