by Arnissa Hopkins | Nov 26, 2023 | African American History, People
Fani Taifa Willis is the first Black woman to hold the office of District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia. Willis was born on October 27, 1971, in Inglewood, California, and raised by her father, John Clifford Floyd III, in Washington, D.C. Learning at the feet of...
by StanleyFreeman | Oct 21, 2023 | African American History, Events
The case of the Jena Six exposed racial injustice and inequality following an incident involving six male African American teenagers. The arrest of the students, all enrolled at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana, ignited a national movement to address longstanding...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Aug 11, 2023 | African American History, People
Patricia Ann Blackmon is a prosecutor and former judge in Cleveland, Ohio. Blackmon was born in 1950 in Oxford, Mississippi, and was the sixth child of 11. Blackmon attended the segregated Rowan Junior School in Jackson, Mississippi, and graduated from Lanier High...
by TrudyWright | Aug 11, 2023 | African American History, People
Cheri Beasley is the first African American woman to serve as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She has served as Vice-President of the North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors. Born in 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Nashville,...
by | Jul 11, 2022 | Global African History, People
Percy Chen, an Afro-Trinidadian Chinese lawyer, businessman, and political activist, was a founding member of the Hong Kong Bar Association. Born in Belmont, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1901, he was the eldest of his parents’ seven children. His...
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