Examining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Complicated Legacy On Race

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Examining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Complicated Legacy On Race

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death drew attention to her decades-long career on the bench that had its ups as well as its downs when it came to the topic of race.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the champion for women’s rights, died on Friday evening from “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,” according to a statement from the Supreme Court of the United States. Known to many as “the Notorious RBG,” Ginsburg, 87, served more than 27 years on America’s highest

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Thurgood Marshall announces retirement

US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, citing illness, announces his retirement from the nations highest court after 24 years of service.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jun

1991

Supplier disappointed with Williams’ tablets statement - Parties head to mediation over schools project

Information technology company GeoTechVision Jamaica has objected to statements made by Technology Minister Fayval Williams in Parliament on Tuesday that the company delivered substandard devices to the Government under the Tablets in Schools...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Supplier disappointed with Williams’ tablets statement - Parties head to mediation over schools project

Stephen Wedderburn, ICT project manager of GeoTechVision, has reacted, saying that he was disheartened by Williams’ “false” statement, adding that it could be prejudicial to a dispute before the courts between GeoTech Vision and the state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited over the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Expelled MDC Alliance MPs lose appeal

BY CHARLES LAITON The High Court has upheld the expelling of the 12 MDC Alliance MPs, ruling that their recall by the Thokozane Khupe-led MDC-T faction was in compliance with the judgment by the Supreme Court of March this year. The ruling was made after MPs, Bacilia Majaya, Mucharairwa

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Bill Cosby Granted Appeal in Pennsylvania Sex Assault Case

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme

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Source: Black America Web

Court: Some Employers Can Refuse to Offer Free Birth Control

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled broadly Wednesday in favor of the religious rights of employers in two cases that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception and tens of thousands of people with no way to sue for job discrimination. In both cases the court ruled

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Source: Black America Web

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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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jun

1950

Little Rock Crisis, 1957

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. One year later the Court reiterated its ruling calling on school districts throughout the United States to desegregate their public schools “with all deliberate

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Source: Black Past

Supreme Court says Trump can weaken Obamacare contraceptive mandate - L.A. Focus Newspaper

The 7-2 ruling reverses a lower court decision that had blocked Trump's move nationwide. The ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to act aggressively to protect what he and other conservatives frame as religious liberty, as well as for the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman

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Source: La Focus Newspaper

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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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

‘I won’t cut her hair!’ - Parents of dreadlocked girl incensed at ‘systemic racism’ after court ruling

Sherine Virgo said she will not cut her seven-year-old daughter’s hair despite yesterday’s court ruling that Kensington Primary School did not breach her child’s constitutional rights when it denied her access in 2018 for having dreadlocks. “I will...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

(1964) George C. Wallace, “The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax”

By 1964 George C. Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, had become the national symbol of opposition to the civil rights movement and to federal governmental intervention to protect the rights of African Americans. In the address below he denounces President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing into law the

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Source: Black Past

Jul

1776

Gullah language

Gullah, also called Sea Island Creole English[1] [2] and Geechee, is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called Geechees within the community), an African-American population living on the Sea Islands and in the coastal regions of the American states of South Carolina, Georgia and

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Source: ThoughtCo

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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Source: Unpublished Black History

U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end

U.S. Supreme Court said school systems must end segregation at once and operate now and hereafter only unitary schools. In Mississippi case, Alexander V. Holmes, the Court abandoned the principle of all deliberate speed.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

1969

Virginia's ethics are challenged

U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Virginia law banning inter-racial marriage was unconstitutional.

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Jun

1967

Supreme Court Rules on Busing

U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that busing was a constitutionally acceptable method of integrating public schools.

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Apr

1971

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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Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ruth Bader Ginsberg Has Died: 3 Reasons Democrats Shouldn't Panic...Yet - TheGrio

Friday night, Supreme Court Justice, legal, feminist, and pop culture icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to join the ancestors at... View Article The post Ruth Bader Ginsberg Has Died: 3 Reasons Democrats Shouldn't Panic…Yet appeared first on TheGrio.

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We shouldn't try to hold Biden hostage on black woman running mate

Seven prominent Black women activists have made a strong case, and a bit of stir, in a Washington Post Op-Ed, “Biden Still Needs Black

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshal

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement

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Jun

1991

The Sacramento Observer » May I Approach? Courts and the Power of Inclusion

The first of these events will be Wednesday evening and focus specifically on the impact of Black women as appellate

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Source: The Sacramento Observer

Supreme Court ruling could overturn convictions in Oklahoma

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared much of eastern Oklahoma part of the Creek Indian reservation, Oklahoma state and federal ...

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