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Senator Donna Scott-Mottley, leader of opposition business in the Senate, says it is not too late for the government to change course in light of the judgment by the Supreme Court that the detention of persons under the State of Emergency (SOE...
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Violette Neatley Anderson
Violette Neatley Anderson is the first African American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court
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29
1926
The Supreme Court weakened the foundations
U.S. Supreme Court undermined the legal foundations of segregation in three landmark cases, Sweatt v. Painter, McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and Henderson v. United States.
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5
1950
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States Supreme Court, 1857
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Supreme Court permits 16 listed companies to hold virtual AGM
THE Supreme Court has given the green light for 16 companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to hold their annual general meetings (AGMs) virtually, either in full or part.
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Shelby Davidson
While Shelby Davidson could not viewed as a prolific inventor, he is significant in that he served as a great example of education, determination and
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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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Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 US 537 (1896) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal.[1] The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion
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Impeach Kavanaugh and Thomas – Florida Courier
Now is not the time for hand wringing. Now is not the time to surrender in the face of aggressive White supremacy bent upon establishing a new Jim Crow era to oppress Black people for the financial gain of White Americans. Now is the time to draw a line in the sand and tell the
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On this day, the Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v.Lee that whites can'tbar A
On this day, the Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v.Lee that whites cant bar African Americans from white neighborhoods
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Nov
13
1940
Ben Jealous - Wikipedia
After completing his degree at Oxford and returning to the US, Jealous worked as Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a federation of more than 200 black community
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Kendrick: 'One year after Georgia's abortion ban, the Supreme Court tackles crisis of access' | The Atlanta Voice
As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on June Medical Services v. Russo, a case with major implications for abortion care nationwide, I’m reminded of what was happening in my state at this time a year in the state legislature had just passed a near-total abortion ban that would prohibit care
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Source: The Atlanta Voice
Senate Judiciary Committee Decides To Move Forward With Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
On October 22, the State Judiciary Committee voted to move forward with the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, despite the closeness of a national election. Democrats sought to
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No more nightmares for Jamaican DREAMers - 3,000 with roots to island no longer in limbo
Approximately 3,000 Jamaicans who are beneficiaries of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot end the programme that was instituted by executive order by then
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Supreme Court Decision Jeopardizes CFPBs Future and its Independence
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#Election2020 – U.S. Rep. Doug Collins slams Ruth Bader Ginsburg on abortion after her death | The Atlanta Voice
Shortly after the news of the passing of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made waves, U.S. Representative Doug Collins blasted Ginsburg on her support for abortion rights. “RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth
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U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson)
U.S. Supreme Court decision (Plessy v. Ferguson) upheld doctrine of separate but equal and began age of Jim Crow.
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18
1896
Justices reject end to protections for young immigrants
The outcome seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run in 2016 and immigration restrictions his administration has imposed since
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The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities of Color in “America’s Suburb”
In the article below historian Jean-Paul R. deGuzman briefly introduces the multiethnic history of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, a popular region that one local chronicler calls nothing less than “America’s Suburb.”  The narrative that follows, part of deGuzman doctoral
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This Day in History — June 16
1977: Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is named president, becoming the first person to hold both posts
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Supreme Court ordered school integration "with all
Supreme Court ordered school integration with all deliberate speed.
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May
31
1955
COMMENTARY: George Floyd and the Continuing Legacy of Dred Scott | The Orlando Advocate
A rose by any other name . . . Weve all heard this familiar paraphrase of a line from William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet. The reference is most often used to suggest that what one calls a thing does not change what it actually is. On March 18, 2018, Stephon Clark was shot and
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8 transgender men and women killed in 7 days
NEW YORK — Brayla Stone, a 17-year-old Black trans girl, was murdered in Sherwood, Arkansas near Little Rock on June
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NCLA Releases Report on Administrative Law Records of Potential Nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court | The Orlando Advocate
Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - The New Civil Liberties Alliance released a white paper today analyzing the individuals purportedly on President Trump’s shortlist to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. NCLA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil
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We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate
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Amid the Outpouring for Ginsburg, a Hint of Backlash
… credited as co-authors the African-American legal scholar Pauli Murray and … , who was not only an African-American jurist, and largely forgotten until …
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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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