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Landmark ruling in divorce case
The plaintiff (Simba) shall sign all necessary documents to enable transfer of his 50% share as joint owner to the defendant within 30 days from the date of request,” the judgment
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Africa: Elite Kenyan Marathoner Championing Battle Against Gender-Based Violence
[Africa Renewal] Viola Cheptoo founded Tirop's Angels foundation in memory of fellow athlete Agnes Tirop
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Uganda: Senior Officer Fined Shs50m for Selling Stolen Car to Wife
In her judgment of June 10, Justice Lydia Mugambe of Kampala High Court, held that the alleged auctioning of the car in question, a pick-up, was done at the time when its search was on and that the Assistant Commissioner of Police was fully aware of its
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(1849) Charles Sumner, “Equality Before the Law: Unconstitutionality of Separate Colored Schools in Massachusetts”
In 1848 Benjamin Roberts filed a lawsuit against the city of Boston on behalf of his five year old daughter, Sarah, who was denied admission to schools in her neighborhood and instead assigned to the lone all-black school in the city.  Two attorneys, Robert Morris, one of the first black lawyers in
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15
1793
Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history | Penn Today
… legible the lenses that African American studies and African American history and Africana studies … on training graduate cohorts studying African American history.  “Penn has an … aspect of the centrality of Black Americans in the worldwide African diaspora …
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Nigeria's president approves spending millions on a presidential yacht and SUVs for lawmakers | Africanews
Tinubu on Wednesday signed into law the budget that allocates $38 million for the presidential air fleet and other renovations. With the senate's approval, lawmakers assigned some $6.1 million budgeted earlier for the yacht to "student loans" — with the senate's approval.
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Judge warns of possible move of trial in George Floyd death
Left to right: Former Minneapolis officers Tou Thao, Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas
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Protesters injured by police before Trump photo-op testify: ‘It hurts’
When U.S. Park Police forcefully pushed peaceful protesters away from the White House and Lafayette Square on June 1, they performed a “violent and senseless operation,” said Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz, chairman of the Natural Resources Committee, during a Congressional hearing about the
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Black Lives Matter, ACLU Sue Trump for Tear Gassing Protesters –
The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of Black Lives Matter, filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump and Attorney General William
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The Creative Coast Hosts SHE HUSTLES Final Event for 2023 - The Savannah Tribune
SHE HUSTLES is a CreativeCoast tri-annual event, during which Savannah’s women entrepreneurs and leaders connect, learn, and inspire. The Creative Coast is excited to again partner with Savannah SCORE for the SHE HUSTLES event, which took place on Thursday, November 9th, at The Clyde Venue Media
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Why Byron Allen’s Comcast Settlement Win Is an “L” for Black America
Earlier this year, Allen’s legal challenge reached the United States Supreme Court to determine whether Allen could proceed with his civil action under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of
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Gong Lum v. Rice (1927)
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1915
Uganda: Court Awards Shs75m to Woman Shot By Stray Bullet
Ms Grace Nabwami, a Makerere University Business School (MUBS) graduate who was hit by a stray bullet fired by a police officer in Kabalagala, a Kampala suburb seven years ago, has been awarded Shs75million as compensation for the injuries she
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Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial
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Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996)
March 18, 1996, Decided
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18
1996
Lawyers' Committee Helps Groups Sue Trump and Barr for Tear-Gassing Peaceful Protesters Outside White House
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Protesters who were attacked by federal troops in front of the White House Monday night as they were demonstrating nonviolently against police brutality sued  President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and numerous other federal
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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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Protesters injured by police before Trump photo-op testify: 'It hurts'
Civil rights demonstrator Kishon McDonald answers a question at a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing examining Park Police response to Lafayette Square protests on June 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, ET
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, ET
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Nigeria: Imo Governorship - It's Three-Horse Race As Uzodinma Battles 17 Others
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Brown v. Board of Education - Death
The last surviving plaintiff, Zelma Henderson, died in Topeka, on May 20, 2008, at age 88.
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20
2008
Voting Amidst A Pandemic
According to Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, “The real outstanding question is whether or not we’re going to have an election system that can deliver for the voters and whether or not we’re going to be able to manage everybody being able to vote in
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Judge orders 10-day delay after Virginia governor says Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee must come down
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Minority jail guards taken off Derek Chauvin watch file discrimination claims
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Injunction extended against removing Lee statue in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Thursday indefinitely extended an injunction preventing the Virginia governor from removing a historic statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from a famed avenue in the former capital of the
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U.S. Supreme court Ruling
U.S. Supreme Court rules in Missouri that a state must provide equal educational facilities for Blacks within its boundaries. Lloyd Gaines, the plaintiff in the case, disappeared after the decision and was never located.
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1938
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Changing the World
George Floyd’s six-year-old daughter Gianna looked on quizzically while her mother gave a heart wrenching description of what the death of her father would mean throughout the
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Wiley College (1873- )
Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, is the first African-American college established in the Lone Star State.  The institution was founded in 1873 by Bishop Isaac Wiley of Methodist Episcopal Church and chartered by the Freedman’s Aid Society in 1882. Isaac Wiley grew up with dreams of becoming
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