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John McNeil, a Georgia African American man who is serving a life sentence for shooting and killing a White trespasser on his property, could go free after a Georgia Superior Court judge ruled Sept. 25 that ineffective legal counsel undercut his claim of a justified killing.
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Race played a role in an HBCU’s firing of a White employee, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled recently.
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Film superstar Samuel L. Jackson has endorsed the reelection of President Obama with a video that sounds like a nursery rhyme but slaps apathetic voters with a four-word- profanity laced refrain: “Wake the F---k Up.”
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A Justice Department inspector general report Sept. 19 cleared Attorney General Eric Holder of any involvement in weapons scandal that had placed him under a contempt of Congress cloud for three months.
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The NAACP spoke up at the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland this week for the rights of millions of former felons who have been denied the right to vote.
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Florida resumed its controversial voter purge Sept. 26, as elections officials produced a new list of 198 potential noncitizens for removal.
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One issue overshadowed the 2012 election to some leaders during last week’s Black political showcase in Washington: How will the African American male be nurtured and preserved?
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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Lincoln University President Robert R. Jennings offered an ambitious vision for the university’s future in his inaugural address as the 13th president of the university.
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While advocates of voter identification laws say the goal is to prevent fraud at the polls, Rep. Elijah Cummings insists that what is really at work is voter suppression during a campaign that promises to be a tighter than ever race for the presidency.
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Maryland’s four historically Black universities will receive more than $12 million in federal funds, officials announced in mid-September.
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