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February 19, 2013
Disability campaigners are making a last-ditch appeal for clemency for Warren Hill, an intellectually disabled prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday evening despite a US supreme court ba ...
Posted Tuesday, February 19th 2013 at 6:06PM
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Posted on February 13, 2013
By Anthony Kort
UPDATE 2/13/13 1:06pm PST: Authorities have claimed to have found a wallet within the burned down cabin that contained a California Driver’s License with Christopher Dorner’s name on it. This is the th ...
Posted Saturday, February 16th 2013 at 4:35PM
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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson (January 4, 1890 – September 10, 1976) was an American educator. He served as the first black president of Howard University, from 1926 until 1960.
Johnson received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1911, and second bachel ...
Posted Friday, February 15th 2013 at 10:42AM
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On February 13, 1970, Joseph Searles became the first African American member of the New York Stock Exchange. The Kansas State University graduate was working as an aide for New York City Mayor John Lindsey when he was offered the job as a floor trad ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 12:36PM
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The Black Panthers, Black History Month, and “Domestic Terrorism”
by Ron Jacobs / February 10th, 2013
Once again, it’s Black History Month in the United States. Since the inception of this celebration, its meaning has unfortunately been diminishe ...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th 2013 at 11:45AM
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Grace Towns-Hamilton (1907–1992) was the first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly. As executive director of the Atlanta Urban League 1943–1960, Hamilton was involved in issues of housing, health care, schools and voter reg ...
Posted Sunday, February 10th 2013 at 3:47PM
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