The week before, in a Mississippi death-penalty case, every member of the Court save its sole African-American one seemed poised to expand protections against racially-biased juror exclusions. ... Constitution bars one of the most pernicious prosecutorial practices in our criminal..…
The death of African American by Ferguson police officer in 2014 touched off months of protests and violence and helped give rise to Black Lives Matter movement.. ..…
Relations of neighborhood environment influences, physical activity, and active transportation to/from school across African American, Latino American, and white girls in the United States . . ..…
Lightfoot and Preckwinkle, also African American, say they working to heal some of the differences between them and some of the in the community. ..…
All four candidates would mark other historical “firsts,” with Lightfoot serving as Chicago’s first female African-American mayor, and the only black lesbian mayor serving anywhere in the country. ..…
Chicago's elected mayor has made history by being African-American woman openly gay person to win the seat. ... Lori Lightfoot is African-American woman openly gay person to hold the seat of mayor. ..…
They also said the concept of Aztlán excluded other groups such as black people and Native American tribes, attendees said. . ..…
Not long ago, two African-American women vying for this position would have been unthinkable.' . ..…
God did not create a state for white people or for black people.” . . Senator Charles Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, who calls himself the Senate’s “shomer” or guardian for American Jews, had a slightly different take on it: . ..…
These admonitions are not about seeking Jewish or in the left they're about delegitimizing some of the important justice movements of our time, from Black Lives Matter to the global call by Palestinian civil society for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. ..…
Specifically, Clinton camp accepted the Palestinian- American James Zogby, Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Bill McKibben, African- American Cornel West, and the Native American Deborah Parker... ..…
They also seek the expansion of the Black Church Studies program and an endowed department chair. . Currently students who identify as African American comprise around 13 percent of the seminary’s 500 students. ..…
Gun violence, fueled by gangs and the drug trade, plagues economically-depressed neighborhoods in the South and West, which are majority African American. . ..…
Hopefully, maybe, this puts marker down with our leadership and with Republican Party in House and Senate, that we owe it to American people to show in black and white how we're going to fix health care, he said.. ..…
Basically the argument is this cannabis is popular the cost of enforcing its prohibition is and while it's illegal, the government is throwing away tax revenue. ..…
we must acknowledge it automatically privileges the rights of men over the rights of women, said the committee's ranking Republican, Doug Collins of Georgia.. ..…
That Canadian gunman read extensively about Dylann Roof, the American who killed nine worshipers at a black church in South Carolina in 2015. . . ..…
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