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SC strikes Doves ownership wrangle off roll - NewsDay Zimbabwe
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Bus Boycott Ended
When the bus boycott ended on this say, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were national heros, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional.
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1956
Chinua Achebe: Three Best-Selling Books Coming to TV | BlackPressUSA
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PM pushes investment initiatives
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Wright, Jonathan J. (1840-1885)
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the first African American to serve on a state Supreme Court, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Susquehanna County in the northeastern corner of the state.  In 1858, Wright traveled to Ithaca, New York where he enrolled in the Lancasterian
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Kenya: Stephen Muriithi - Ex-Spy Chief Who Started Career in Handcuffs
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South
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Comedian Shares His Thoughts on Gloria Allred, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Others – Free Press of Jacksonville
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent - (Original News Source: www.blackpressusa.com) - Freshly released from prison after having his conviction overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Bill Cosby has opened up like [...]
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Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which
Supreme Court upheld lower court decision which banned segregation on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on the buses were served on city, state and bus company officials, December 20. At two mass meetings Montgomery Blacks called off year-long bus
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13
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Barbados
An island in the Atlantic about 300 mi (483 km) north of Venezuela, Barbados is only 21 mi long (34 km) and 14 mi across (23 km) at its widest point. It is circled by fine beaches and narrow coastal plains. The highest point is Mount Hillaby (1,105 ft; 337 m) in the north-central
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Thomas, Clarence
Thomas, Clarence, 1948–, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1991–), b. Pin Point (Savannah), Ga. Raised in a poor family, he graduated (1974) from the Yale Law School and became a prominent black conservative active in Republican causes. He chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity
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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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Montego Bay Chamber demands action on Cornwall Hospital
WESTERN BUREAU: The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to move swiftly to address what it calls unacceptable conditions at the St James-based Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH). The Mt Salem-...
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(1957) Dwight Eisenhower, “Address on Little Rock"
The Little Rock Crisis erupted in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval M. Faubus used state National Guard troops to prevent nine African American students from attending the then all-white Central High School.  On September 20, Federal Judge Ronald Davis ordered Governor Faubus to remove
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24
1957
Haiti first lady airlifted to Florida for medical treatment after being shot
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Rwanda
Rwanda, in east-central Africa, is surrounded by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, and Burundi. It is slightly smaller than Maryland. Steep mountains and deep valleys cover most of the country. Lake Kivu in the northwest, at an altitude of 4,829 ft (1,472 m), is the highest
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Why Nairobi won't get a substantive governor soon - The Kenya News
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Browder v. Gayle (1956)
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Nigeria: We're Problems of Nigeria, Not Religion, Ethnicity - Buhari
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Gov’t urged to simplify COVID-19 messaging
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First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress
In 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Law to implement the provisions in the Constitution. It stated that to reclaim an escaped slave a master needed only to go before a magistrate and provide oral or written proof of ownership. The magistrate would then issue an order for the arrest of
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The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
2001 In January President-elect George W. Bush nominates Colin Powell to be Secretary of State.  Condoleezza Rice is also appointed to the positon of National Security Advisor for the Bush Administration.  This is the first time either post has been held by African Americans. 2001
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Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v
Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.
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1948
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Bill Cosby, 83, is getting out of prison. The disgraced comedian's conviction for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, has been vacated.
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To Protect Democracy, We Have To Fix The Supreme Court - The Seattle Medium
There is another critically important step we have to take if we want voting rights, or health care, or workers’ rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, or any of the rights we are fighting for to survive. We have to fix our Supreme
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Former Brazil Health Ministry official arrested in Senate - Stabroek News
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Kenya to appeal to Supreme Court over constitutional reforms | News24
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Williams v. Mississippi (1898)
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