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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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The Trillion Dollar African American Consumer Market: Economic Empowerment or Economic Dependency?
Collective African American net income (spending power) now exceeds $1 trillion dollars annually. Because of this economic reality, a wide variety of contemporary companies continually create marketing campaigns to effectively reach this important segment of the U.S. consumer market. Yet, in the
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dream hampton On Our Fascination With Cops, Defunding The Police & Why Patriarchy Is Her Biggest Fear
Recently, Color of Change (COC) published a report, Normalizing Injustice: The Dangerous Misrepresentations that Define Television’s Scripted Crime Genre about how the crime genre glamorizes policing to the detriment of the entire country, but Black people, the victim of police
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Kenya: Court Declines to Stop Charges Against Khalwale
The High Court in Kakamega has declined to grant orders to stop charges against former senator Boni
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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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Namibia: Arrest Warrants for Community Members Cancelled
The Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court on Friday cancelled the warrants of arrest of the Goliath Traditional Authority members for failing to appear in court on 16
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Beyoncé Writes Letter to Kentucky Attorney General, Calls for Justice In Breonna Taylor Case
Like many, Beyoncé is tired of the inaction in Breonna Taylor‘s case, so she sent an open letter to the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel
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Warren’s outreach to Black voters could help VP standing
Shortly before Elizabeth Warren joined their virtual happy hour on a recent Friday afternoon, the five African American women co-hosting the #TheSipHour mused about calling her by her first
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Man, 2 woman jailed for 80 years collectively for rape and assault of trafficked teen
After losing her father, her aunt badly treated the girl and told her that she was sending her to Gudwana in Cape Town who was looking for a wife," the prosecutor, senior state advocate Maria Marshall, said during the court
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Kabuga lawyers fighting extradition
The court on Thursday May 21, decided to delay until next week the hearing on whether to hand Kabuga to the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals based at The
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DR Congo justice minister arrested in crisis over judicial reforms
DR Congo's justice minister was arrested on Saturday, the latest twist in a crisis over proposed judicial reforms that have triggered violent street
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Rwanda: French Court Rules Félicien Kabuga Be Tried in Tanzania
A French court on Wednesday, June 3, ruled that suspected genocide mastermind Félicien Kabuga be transferred, from France to the custody of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT), for
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Rwanda: UN Prosecutor to Member States - Intensify Efforts to Locate, Arrest Genocide Fugitives
The Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) Serge Brammertz, has called for greater efforts to locate and arrest fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in
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Keenan Ivory Wayans's In Living Color wins an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series
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Sudan: Mass Grave of 'Conscripts Killed During Al Bashir Era' Found Near Sudan Capital
Khartoum — Sudan's Public Prosecution Service has confirmed the discovery of a mass grave in El Elafon district in Khartoum
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Sunny Hostin Reacts After ABC Executive Is Placed on Administrative Leave for Allegedly Making Racist Remarks About Her and Robin Roberts
Barbara Fedida, a senior executive at ABC News, who’s responsible for recruiting on-air talent, has been accused of making racist remarks about Black people at the
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Felicien Kabuga's lawyers fight extradition
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Cop in soup over ‘ED like a used condom’ slur
Shungudzemoyo Kache (35), who was represented by human rights lawyer Jeremiah Bhamu, was charged under section 33 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which forbids “making any statement about or concerning the President or an acting President with the knowledge or realising that there
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Attorney For Former Officer Involved In Killing George Floyd Blames Witnesses For Not Doing More To Help
An attorney for one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is trying to shift the responsibility for his death on those who were witnesses rather than blame his
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As the 2013 presidential election approached, many feared a repeat of the deadly violence that plagued the disputed 2007 race and left about 1,300 dead. Those fears did not play out in the tight race between top contenders Prime Minister Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta, the richest man in the country and
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Decades of struggle and hardship paid off when United States elected a black president. It is still too early to say that discrimination has been completely abolished from U.S as different races are being targeted instead of blacks. The blacks who used to be traded to western countries and kept as
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Mothers Of Black Men Killed By Police React To George Floyd’s ‘Murder’ In Minneapolis
Floyd’s killing was especially personal for Valerie Castile, the mother of Philando Castile, the school worker who was shot and killed by police in Minnesota after he told an officer he was legally carrying a concealed weapon in his
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Slavery Advocate’s Statue Being Removed in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic South Carolina city of Charleston was removing a symbol of its legacy on Wednesday, sending crews to take away a statue honoring John C. Calhoun, an early U.S. vice president whose zealous defense of slavery led the nation toward civil
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WilliamMonroe Trotter was a major early twentieth century civil rights activist knownprimarily for launching the first major challenge to the political dominance ofTuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington and as an inspiration for the formation of theNational Association for the Advancement
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Fugitive Félicien Kabuga arrested
Felicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda's richest men, was living under a false identity in the Paris suburbs, the public prosecutor's office and police said in a joint
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Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the Empress of Soul,[1] [2] is an American singer–songwriter and actress. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner,[3] Knight is best known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s and 1970s, for both the Motown and Buddah Records labels, with her group
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Rayshard Brooks will be buried Tuesday (June 23), 11 days after he was killed by an Atlanta police officer during an encounter witnessed by two Memphis rappers in the ATL to “conquer our dreams not to witness
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Trump entrenched in failed strategy as virus surges and polling drops | The Atlanta Voice
Consumed with what he views as unfair coverage of his administration, Trump hasn’t articulated a new plan to contain the spreading virus and last spoke to his top public health advisers weeks ago, those advisers said this
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