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Reprieve for Pervis Payne execution cause for celebration of family, friends - TSDMemphis.com
A team that includes clergy, legal representatives, clinical mental health professionals and legislators are celebrating Pervis Payne’s temporary reprieve from execution, while working on dual fronts to see that Payne receives clemency and gets released from prison. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, citing
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Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
? Submitted March 18, 1898. Decided April 25, 1898. At June term 1896 of the Circuit Court of Washington County, Mississippi, the plaintiff in error was indicted by a grand jury composed entirely of white men for the crime of murder. On the 15th day of June he made a motion to quash the indic
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Lawyer: Case of Black Inmate Set To Die Reveals Racial Bias
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The lawyer for the first Black inmate scheduled to die this year as part of the Trump administration’s resumption of federal executions says race played a central role in landing her client on death row for slaying a young white Iowa couple and burning them in the trunk of
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Officer Garrett Rolfe Charged With Felony Murder In The Death Of Rayshard Brooks
Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks on June 12 outside of a Wendy’s, has been charged with 11 counts including felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and violations of his oath of
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Two Brothers Awarded $75 Million After Spending 31 Years In Prison Following 1983 Wrongful Conviction In North Carolina: 'The Jury Could Not Have Sent a Stronger Message'
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Immigration Corner | From permanent residency to British citizenship
Dear Mr Bassie, How would I go about applying for British citizenship if I have permanent residence status? I look forward to reading your advice. – G.O. Dear G.O., Persons or their family members who are from the European Union (EU), European...
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US government executes killer obsessed with witchcraft - African American News Today - EIN News
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State Supreme Court Delivers Key Ruling for Black Jurors in Capital Cases
Never before in North Carolina judicial history have trial judges taken accusations of racial discrimination against Black jurors seriously, if a White prosecutor had a Black juror struck from a prospective jury primarily on the basis of race through preemptory challenge – which is illegal – the
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City of Cleveland to Pay $18 Million to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and Kwame Ajamu for Decades of Wrongful Imprisonment
Earlier this month, the city of Cleveland agreed to pay a combined $18 million to Rickey Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and his brother Kwame Ajamu, three men who spent decades in prison for a 1975 killing they did not commit, according to
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Rayshard Brooks Killing: $200K Raised For Ex Police Officer Charged With Murder
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Frederick Douglass
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Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)
Thurgood Marshall was an American civil rights activist with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.  He is remembered as a lawyer who had one of the highest rates of success before the
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Rayshard Brooks' Funeral Held At Church Where Martin Luther King Jr. Preached
The funeral for Rayshard Brooks, the Black man who was fatally shot during an encounter with police at a fast food restaurant earlier this month, was an emotional and triumphant send-off for a man killed in the midst of the nation's latest moment for racial and social
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James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African-American who was murdered by three white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John King dragged Byrd for three miles behind a pick-up truck along an asphalt road. Byrd, who remained
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USA: Supreme Court clears Nestlé and Cargill of employing underage Malians | Africanews
Judges in the US on Thursday ruled eight to one in favour of the two companies Nestle and Cargill and a group of six Malian adults who claimed they were abducted from their country as children and forced to work on cocoa farms in neighbouring Ivory Coast.
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Zimbabwe prisoners released amid overcrowding during Covid-19 pandemic | Africanews
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Marc Lamont Hill opens up the show reporting that thousands of Haitian migrants were granted protected status under the Biden Administration. The information came out that the officer involved in the death of Ronald Greene failed to turn over body camera footage from the 2019 incident. Hill also
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George Floyd's Brother Says Trump Was Dismissive On Condolence Call
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One of the greatest moments of my journalism career was getting to tell the story of Otis W. McDonald, a Black man from the Morgan Park community who took the City of Chicago all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. McDonald’s victory on June 28, 2010 is the reason why citizens in Chicago ...
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'Executed Because They Were Black': Seven Young Black Men Electrocuted In 1949 Rape of White Woman Granted Posthumous Pardons by Virginia Governor
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Bitcoin Causes Cryptocurrency Surge, Rising by More Than 12 Percent After an Elon Musk Tweet - The Zimbabwe Independent
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