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Texas is set to execute Billy Wardlow, who was 18 when he killed a man. Experts argue thats too young for a death sentence. | Dallas Weekly
On Wednesday evening, Texas plans to execute Billy Joe Wardlow for a 1993 East Texas robbery and murder. His lawyers are hoping the swell of the coronavirus pandemic and Wardlow’s young age at the time of the crime will persuade the courts or the governor to stop it. Wardlow was 18 when he killed
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Angela Davis Quotes: From the Radical Black Philosopher
Angela Davis, a professor of philosophy, is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as with
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis is a political activist, author, teacher and feminist. She was born on  January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her neighborhood was known for racial tensions and conflict, and Davis attended an all black elementary school. Her mother was an active member and organizer of the
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1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts
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Ford, Harold Jr. (1970- )
Harold Eugene Ford, Jr. was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 11, 1970. He currently serves as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.  During his tenure in congress Ford represented the state’s 9th
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Officer 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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Im ready to meet my God - Remembering Lena Baker, the only woman executed in Georgias electric chair - Face2Face Africa
Lena Baker was an African-American woman convicted of killing her white employer Ernest Knight by the State of Georgia in 1944 at the age of 44. The only woman executed in Georgias electric chair, Baker was sentenced to death by an all-white, all-male jury after a trial that lasted just one day. At
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Texas State releases Danny Kaspar resignation letter
… of whom were approximately 85% African-American. “(Redacted). I firmly and fervently …
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Trump Administration To Execute 5 Black People In Last Days As President
Outgoing President Donald Trump has permitted the execution of four Black men and one woman before he leaves the White House.
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African American History and Women Timeline 1700-1799
[Previous] [Next] Women and African American History: 1700-1799 New York passed a law prohibiting public gatherings by three or more enslaved Africans, prohibiting testimony in court by enslaved Africans against white colonists, and prohibiting trade with enslaved Africans. Virginia Slave Codes of 1
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Sampa The Great: Introducing Hip Hop’s Latest International Sensation
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(1900) Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America”
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US official ends Dar tour of duty, a month after travel advisory
US Charge d’Affaires to Tanzania Dr Inmi Patterson has bade farewell to Tanzanians in a video message on the embassy’s official Facebook page, saying she will be leaving the country
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This Day in Black History: June 13, 1967
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, becoming the first Black U.S. Supreme Court
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Death has engulfed America; what can we do? –
Recently, there have been numerous killings of unarmed Black folks by the police and vigilantes, who believe they have a right to patrol their neighborhood and kill Black
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US government executes African American for murder after 17-year hiatus - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
The US government has executed African American Christopher Vialva, who was sentenced …
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Egypt: 49 Executions in 10 Days
[HRW] Beirut -- Egyptian authorities executed 15 men convicted for alleged involvement in three cases of political violence as well as 2 women and 25 men convicted in criminal cases between October 3 and 13, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately halt
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White supremacist John King sentenced to death
White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black
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Earth Today | Gov’ts urged to prioritise environmental considerations amid COVID-19 storm
THE GOVERNMENTS and people of the Caribbean are reminded to keep environmental considerations as key to sustainable economies and overall development front of mind, even as they negotiate the challenges of the COVID-19
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Namibia Eases COVID-19 Restrictions
ALL 14 regions of the country will on Monday migrate to stage 3 of the lockdown exit strategy for the next 28 days - except for Walvis Bay, which will go back to stage 1 until
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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Julius Jones And Edward J. Perkins; A Life Worth Remembering | The Oklahoma Eagle
Julius Jones Deserves A Fair Hearing Not The Death Penalty America has a horrible history of capital punishment and worse, executing the wrong man or woman. Oklahoma is the worst of the worse. Julius Jones sits on death row and by many accounts should have never been charged let alone sentenced to
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US Set To Execute 1st Of 5 Inmates Before Biden Inauguration
CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration is planning an unprecedented five more federal executions before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, starting with a Texas street-gang member set to be put to death Thursday for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple whose bodies he
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Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals : TheGrio
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before... View Article The post Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals appeared first on TheGrio.
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Atlanta Police Call Out Sick Over Charges in Fatal Shooting | Afro
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police officers called out sick to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a Black man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to
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The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945
Pan-Africanist ideals emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to European colonization and exploitation of the African continent. Pan-Africanist philosophy held that slavery and colonialism depended on and encouraged negative, unfounded categorizations of the race, culture, and values of
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A defining moment: SpaceX will this week launch humans into space
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Chad's New Counter-Terrorism Law - a Step in the Right Direction?
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