Phillips comes full circle - Outgoing PNP president looks to make return to academia Admits 2008 challenge to Simpson Miller presidency was ill-advised

Shahine was like my sister and friend, says PM

The House of Representatives yesterday paid tribute to two former ministers, two ex-councillors, and a former permanent secretary, but it was Shahine Robinson who was the centre of tearful tributes by parliamentarians mourning her

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Phillips to put councillors on alert

Opposition People's National Party President Dr Peter Phillips will address councillors and caretakers today, as speculation arises that an election is

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Voting Amidst A Pandemic

According to Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, “The real outstanding question is whether or not we’re going to have an election system that can deliver for the voters and whether or not we’re going to be able to manage everybody being able to vote in

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

South Africa (Geography and History)

Population: 49,052,489 (July 2009

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Source: ThoughtCo

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1994

Civil Rights Organizations Release Troubling Findings of Wisconsin Voter Turnout in April 2020 Primary

New Findings Reveal Stark Racial Disparities and Barriers to the Ballot

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Source: The Orlando Advocate

Nigeria: The Deceitful Propaganda for Zoning in Enugu

Akpa Francis, a public affairs analyst interrogates the current succession plan into public offices in Enugu State, which excludes people of Greater Awgu cultural group from the zoning arrangement

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Source: allAfrica.com

'One in a million'

RESIDENTS in St Ann North Eastern say they are not yet ready to let go of their late Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson, who had served the constituency since

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Motion to strengthen INDECOM tabled in House

A motion calling for legislative changes to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act, to strengthen the investigative capabilities of the organisation, was tabled in the House of Representatives by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck this

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Jacob Zuma

Jacob Zuma , in full Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (born April 12, 1942, Nkandla, South Africa), politician who became president of South Africa in 2009. Prior to that he served as the country’s deputy president (1999–2005), and he has served as president of the country’s ruling party, the African

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Source: Brittanica

Tennessee: Some first-time voters can’t cast absentee ballot

NASHVILLE — Tennessee officials say they plan to enforce a requirement that first-time voters who register by mail cast their ballots in person, despite a judge’s ruling that allows all eligible voters to cast absentee ballots during the coronavirus

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Source: TSDMemphis.com - The New Tri-State Defender - TSDMemphis.com

Lee: I haven’t neglected Retreat division

Since embracing the new role as Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer for St Ann North West, Krystal Lee has had to split her time between that constituency and the Retreat division in St Mary Western, where she is the elected

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Absentee voting for 2020 primary election is open

For the 2020 state primary, absentee ballots must be postmarked by election day (August 11, 2020) and received by August

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Mail-In Ballots An Alternative To Standing In Voting Lines

As the June 9 primary elections draw nearer, the importance of absentee voting in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic becomes more

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Source: The Charleston Chronicle

Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Sunday Brew — May 31, 2020

If information which surfaced over last weekend that there could have been manipulation of Leon Bailey to openly criticise the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) is true, then it would be most

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Fudge, Marcia (1952 - )

Democrat Marcia Fudge is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 11th Congressional District of Ohio since November 2008. She was the first female African American mayor of Warrensville Heights, a predominantly middle-class black suburban city outside of Cleveland. She

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Source: Black Past

Uganda: EC Rejects Opposition Demands On Elections

Preparations for next year's general elections got off to a bumpy start yesterday after authorities at the Electoral Commission (EC), rejected Opposition demand for a new 2021 roadmap, born out of a meticulous consultative

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Source: allAfrica.com

Guinn v. United States (1915): The Grandfather Clause

OPINION IN GUINN v. UNITED STATES

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Source: Black Past

New roadmap for Uganda’s February elections

Uganda’s Electoral Commission announced on Tuesday that it will push ahead with organising the scheduled February 2021 General

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Source: The East African

Special Prosecutor In Breonna Taylor’s Case Is Mitch McConnell’s ‘Protégé’ Who Trump Loves

The road to achieving justice for Breonna Taylor may not be as smooth as it could be after it was announced that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky would be serving as the case’s special

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Source: Black America Web

Veasey, Marc (1971– )

Veasey is a lifelong resident of Fort Worth, Texas, having been born there on January 3, 1971. His parents, Joseph and Connie Veasey, divorced when he was ten, prompting Marc, his brother Ryan, and his mother to move in with his maternal grandmother. Prior to this move, the family had been

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Source: Black Past

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1971

Lewis, John R. (1940- )

John Lewis was born in Troy, Alabama on February 21, 1940. In 1961 he received a B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1967 he received an additional B.A. from Fisk University located in

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Source: Black Past

Feb

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1940

Georgia voting rights leaders warned about failures of June 9 primary

ATLANTA — In a telephone press briefing, leaders from All Voting is Local, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Coalition for the People’s Agenda, Common Cause Georgia, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, Georgia NAACP, and the New Georgia Project, urged Georgia Secretary of

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Source: Atlanta Tribune

Nigeria: PDP Decries Rising Wave of Killings, Banditry

In a statement issued yesterday by the spokesman for the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party blamed President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration for failing to contain the mindless

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Source: allAfrica.com

Shirley Chisholm

Name at birth: Shirley Anita St. Hill

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Clay, William Lacy, Sr. (1931- )

Former Missouri Democratic Congressman William L. Clay Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 30, 1931, one of seven children. Clay excelled in school and at the age of thirteen began working as a janitor in a clothing store. He later became the tailor for the store. Clay graduated from

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Source: Black Past

Apr

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1931

California Assembly voted to pass ACA 5

(CBM) – The California State Assembly HAS voted to pass ACA

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Washington, Harold (1922 – 1987)

Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago, Illinois, was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy Washington, a lawyer, Methodist minister and one of the first black precinct captains in Chicago. Washington’s mother Bertha Washington was a well-known singer in the

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Source: Black Past

Downtown Kingston SOE extended for 41 days

The House of Representatives last night approved a 41-day extension of the state of emergency (SOE) declared on June 14 in the Kingston Central and Western police

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Carter, W. Beverly (1921-1982)

Ambassador William Beverly Carter is the first Ambassador-at-Large, and the second African American, to be appointed an ambassador by three Presidents. In 1972, President Richard M. Nixon appointed him ambassador to Tanzania. Four years later, President Gerald R. Ford named him ambassador to

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Source: Black Past

Jan

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1981

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