America's first Black lawyer started in Maine. His only known portrait has been missing for decades.
The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...
Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum chronicles ‘This Woman’s Work’
Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police ...
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L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100
But when Black students arrived for the first day of school in September 1956, they were met by hundreds of angry white ... Black lawyer to open a practice. He worked with the N.A.A.C.P. and ...
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Biden Didn't Pardon. He Erased the Law.
The media's interest in presidential pardons seems sudden.
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Study: UB law scholars identify racial disparities in New York’s felony murder law
Black people were much more likely as white people to be convicted of felony murder based on accomplice liability, study says ...
DEI with a hard ‘ER’: The anti-DEI movement in tech is having a chokehold on Black economic progress
The question isn't if DEI initiatives are necessary—the data screams that. The real question is: Why are some scared of a ...
Why Trump is singling out South Africa and accusing it of being anti-white and anti-American
The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled ...
Killed For Voting Then, Blocked From Voting Now: A History Of Attacks On Black Political Power
From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.
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Harlem pays final respects to Dr. Hazel N. Dukes at funeral service
Funeral services for late NAACP New York State Conference President Hazel Dukes are being held at Mother A.M.E. Zion Church ...
Robert Clark, Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96
Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the ...
Washington, DC, to remove ‘Black Lives Matter’ painting from street near White House, mayor says
The nation's capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the ...