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? 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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Source: Black Past
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No Time to Grieve: How COVID-19 Has Changed Funerals and Mourning – Voice and Viewpoint
The service, handled by Morgan Jones Funeral Home in Sacramento, lasted no more than seven minutes, and the 10 people who attended the burial stayed in their
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St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )
St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830s a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural
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Source: Black Past
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St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church, New York City (1809- )
St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church was the first African American Episcopal parish in New York City, New York.  It was also one of the largest Christian congregations in the United States at one
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HELP OR HURT? - Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger
Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
10 things about Oliver Clarke
Media giant Oliver Clarke died late Saturday evening at his St Andrew home after a battle with
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”
In July 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered a major speech at the White House  in defense of Affirmative Action programs across the nation at a time when many critics were calling for their repeal.  He argued that such programs were still needed in a talk he officially titled, The Job of Ending
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Source: Black Past
Arthur Ashe Stadium
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis stadium located in the Queens borough of New York City. As part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament, the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year — and is the largest
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1997
Georgianna Glose, a Nun and Activist for the Poor, Dies at 73
If you passed Georgianna Glose on the streets of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, you might have known her as that renegade nun, the one who left her convent to live among the poor and then blew a whistle on sexual abuse in the Catholic
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Consumer advocate lashes Gov’t over bad gas payout
THE HEAD of one local consumer protection group believes consumers should feel offended by the offer of a $24.5-million compensation package for those who suffered from the purchase of contaminated gas in
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
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In his own words… Quotable quotes of Oliver Clarke
Here are some of the quotable quotes of Oliver
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
'It was the experience of a lifetime'
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Government rethinking field hospital at National Arena – Tufton
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Inmate dies after trying to disarm correctional officers
An inmate from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre died today after trying to disarm correctional
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Former JFF president, Hugh Perry, dead
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Information on nursing home, residential facility clusters to be released Monday
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Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953) is a former American boxer who made a name for himself in the international heavyweight championship; he has an overall record of 26 wins, 17 losses as well as three draws as a professional- he made 14 of those wins via knockouts. Spinks is known to have created one
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Hanover man accused of abducting, robbing and raping woman charged
A Hanover man accused of abducting, robbing and raping a woman has been charged by the
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$300m Tivoli bill - Figure set to increase with suits pending; public defender laments continued abuse of young men by cops, soldiers
Compensation payouts for the death and destruction that occurred during the internal security operation to arrest drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke have already cost taxpayers a little over $300 million, a figure that will increase when over two dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of detainees are
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaicans praise treatment at quarantine facility
(Jamaica Observer) Comfortable rooms, on time meals, lots of food, pleasant and professional staff, are some of the descriptions repeated by individuals quarantined at the Jewels Paradise Cove Hotel in this north eastern Jamaica
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Zimbabwe: Late Dabengwa's Party Scorns 'Useless' Ex-Secretary General Absolom Sikhosana
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UN agency calls for unity as globe marks World Day for Cultural Diversity
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Jamaican media mogul Oliver Clarke dies at 75
(Jamaica Gleaner) Oliver Frederick Clarke, the media mogul who stood at the helm of The Gleaner as chairman and managing director for more than four decades, has
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Holness to provide timeline for return of Jamaicans at sea
(JIS): Leader of  Government Business in the Upper House, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, says the government will be providing a time line for the return of all Jamaicans on board cruise
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Relief and fear - Authorities promise tight ship, but COVID-19 concern high in communities as joyous relatives welcome cruise workers
After weeks of uncertainty on the high seas and sitting in docks around the world as the global tourism industry collapsed from the devastating coronavirus pandemic, 1,044 Jamaican cruise workers breathed a sigh of relief last week as the Adventure of the Seas docked at historic Falmouth in
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Mandela Highway infrastructure works to result in water disruptions for communities
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
School leaders to receive training to manage institutions remotely
(JIS): School leaders across Jamaica are to participate in a Virtual Instructional Leadership (VIL) online course to equip them with the skills and competencies to effectively manage institutions
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Tivoli justice ‘impossible’ - Botched police probes doom search for truth forever, say watchdogs
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