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A June 29 U.S. Supreme Court split decision represents a major setback to both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the consumers who have come to rely upon the agency. Since 2010, more than 25 million consumers were helped by the agency’s efforts that returned over $11
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Court Decision in Favor of Segregation
U.S. Supreme Court refused to review lower court decision which would ban segregation in intrastate bus travel.
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1955
Clarence Thomas is nominated to the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas is nominated to the Supreme Court by President George Bush.
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Information technology company GeoTechVision Jamaica has objected to statements made by Technology Minister Fayval Williams in Parliament on Tuesday that the company delivered substandard devices to the Government under the Tablets in Schools...
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June 12, 1967: U.S. Supreme Court Invalidated Laws Prohibiting Interracial Marriage
June 12, 1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg Has Died: 3 Reasons Democrats Shouldn't Panic...Yet - TheGrio
Friday night, Supreme Court Justice, legal, feminist, and pop culture icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to join the ancestors at... View Article The post Ruth Bader Ginsberg Has Died: 3 Reasons Democrats Shouldn't Panic…Yet appeared first on TheGrio.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Who are the justices on the US Supreme Court?
… was one of the few African-Americans in attendance during a short … law. Thomas replaced the first African-American justice on the court - …
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Chung counts on Supreme Court review
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Having lost one vote in the magisterial count and enduring what he describes as the mishandling of voting, Manchester Central independent candidate Rohan Chung says he will be seeking justice in the Supreme Court. But not...
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Cocky Tale: Bird Kills Owner At Illegal Fight – The Wilmington Journal
It was a big day for Thangulla Satish, a 45-year-old farmer from Lothunur village in India’s southern state of Telangana. He had toiled hard and prepared his rooster to win the upcoming cockfight championship for [...]
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)
One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlantas NAACP chapter, and the son
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Second Great Migration (African American)
In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. It began in 1940, through World War II, and lasted until 1970.[1] It was much larger and of
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Washington Farm Workers Ask State Supreme Court For Overtime Pay : NPR
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President Biden Nominates Three Black Women for Federal Court of Appeals – Dallas Post Tribune
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent Remember these names: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Tiffany Cunningham, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi.  These are President Joseph Biden’s first three nominations for the federal Court of Appeals. In 2020, Biden pledged to name the first African American
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Howell, Lembhard Goldstone (1936- )
Lembhard G. Howell is a prominent Seattle attorney practicing in Seattle since 1966. Howell’s career has been dedicated to seeking justice for individuals who have been injured and unfairly treated. Howell was the first African American to serve on the board of governors of the Association of Trial
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2
1936
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Releases New Report on the Reconstruction Era / Video
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), founded by Bryan Stevenson, released a new groundbreaking Report on the Era of Reconstruction and the violence that defined that period of time – an era from which our nation has yet to
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Trump says he will announce Supreme Court nominee this week - TheGrio
President Donald Trump called into “Fox & Friends” Monday and said that he plans to announce his nominee for the... View Article The post Trump says he will announce Supreme Court nominee this week appeared first on TheGrio.
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Joe Biden Wants to Amend Constitution to Limit Political Speech. : ThyBlackMan.com
"Toward those ends, Biden will: Introduce a constitutional amendment to entirely eliminate private dollars from our federal elections," says the Biden website.
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Bill Cosby Granted Appeal in Pennsylvania Sex Assault Case
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme
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Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson To D.C. Federal Appeals Court
The U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the District of Columbia federal appeals court Monday.
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Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled
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Who Will Be The Next Supreme Court Nominee? Another Issue Black Voters Must Stay On Top Of
Here’s a reminder: Since the Supreme Court was formed in 1789, it has significantly altered American lives, particularly Black lives, with its decisions on important topics such as segregation and voting
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Reid and Pinnock granted leave to challenge judge’s decision to order trial
The Supreme Court has granted leave to former Education Minister Ruel Reid and Caribbean Maritime University president Professor Fritz Pinnock to go to the Judicial Review Court in a bid to quash a ruling of Senior...
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1910: US President William Howard Taft signs the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for
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