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In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation’s first African American college in New Haven, Connecticut, in an attempt to open a door to education that was largely shut in a time of slavery. Instead, the city’s freemen — white male landowners with the sole authority to vote, many with […]
CNN — Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor in light of what he described as new evidence, will be executed Tuesday evening after the US Supreme Court denied his request for a stay of execution. The court offered no explanation for its decision, which is common for cases on its emergency […]
A new Louisiana congressional district map giving the state a second majority-Black House district has been rejected by a panel of federal judges By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press April 30, 2024, 7:10 PM ET • 4 min read NEW ORLEANS — A new congressional district map giving Louisiana a second majority-Black House district was rejected […]
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