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Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announces retirement after almost 30 years in Congress

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Longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, announced Saturday she is not running for reelection after serving nearly three decade...
Friday, October 29, 2021

NAACP Urges Professional Athletes In Free Agency to Avoid Texas

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In response to the most recent attacks on voting rights and reproductive care, the Association sent an open letter to the National Players...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

Texas city elects its first African American mayor

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Michael Evans won a runoff election for mayor of Mansfield, Texas making him the first African American mayor in the city's history. ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Crystal Mason to appeal her case to the Texas Supreme Court

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Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas who has drawn national headlines over the years after she was handed a five-year prison sentence for...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Texas appeals court blocks Rodney Reed execution

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday blocked the execution of Rodney Reed. Reed was sentenced to death more than 20 years ago...
Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Sandra Bland's Phone Video Of Her Own Arrest Surfaces

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Nearly four years after Sandra Bland was pulled over by a Texas state trooper, arrested and put in a jail cell where she was found dead ...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Sorry Trump but President Obama did not pardon Chelsea Manning

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports Trump pardoned Sheriff (I'm a racist) Joe Arpaio this past weekend, and it caused a...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Federal judge strikes down Texas' voter ID law

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A federal court in Texas on Wednesday struck down the state's controversial voter identification law, granting an injunction that ba...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Texas voter ID law struck down AGAIN as intentionally discriminatory

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A federal judge ruled Monday for the second time that Texas' 2011 voter identification law was filed with discriminatory intent --...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

U.S. appeals court finds that Texas voter ID law is discriminatory

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A Texas law requiring voters to show a government-issued form of photo identification before casting a ballot is discriminatory and v...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

22-Year-Old Symone Marshall Dies in Texas Jail

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After being involved in a car accident in which her car flipped over several times, 22 year old African American mother Symone Marshall ...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Texas man jailed for falsely accusing #BlackLivesMatter of vandalism.

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A Texas man who raised almost $6,000 in funds online to repair his truck was arrested on Friday after authorities determined that he v...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Trooper in Sandra Bland traffic stop violated policy

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A trooper who pulled over and later arrested a woman found dead in her jail cell was put on desk duty Friday for violating procedures...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Black teen attacked by McKinney police officer speaks out.

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The bikini-clad teenage girl, Dajerria Becton who was forcibly restrained by a police officer responding to a disturbance at a pool pa...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Second Texas nurse has Ebola

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A second Texas nurse who had contracted Ebola flew on a commercial flight from Ohio to Texas with a slight temperature the day before ...