How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age"
A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...
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First Black woman to graduate from Penn's law school to get statue in Philly
Contest is being held to make a sculpture of Sadie T.M. Alexander that will be outside the Municipal Services Building in ...
DOJ accuses Mississippi Senate of pay discrimination against Black staff attorney
A Black attorney who formerly worked on the staff of the Republican-controlled Mississippi State Senate was the target of ...
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Justice Department says Mississippi Senate paid a Black attorney less than her white colleagues for years
“The Black employee at issue in this lawsuit was paid about half the salary of her white colleagues in violation of federal ...
DOJ files lawsuit against Mississippi State Senate for severely underpaying Black staffer
Friday's lawsuit alleges Kristie Metcalfe, the only Black attorney at the Mississippi State Senate, was paid about half the ...
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New Haven rejected plans for the nation’s first Black college almost 200 years ago. Today, the city is weighing an apology
The proposal’s resolution, written by a committee that included two prominent founders of Yale Law School, highlighted concerns that the Black college would damage Yale’s reputation and be an ...
Mississippi Senate paid Black attorney less than white ones, US Justice Department says
The Mississippi Senate discriminated against a Black attorney by paying her about half of what her white colleagues were paid ...
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New Haven rejected plans for a Black college in 1831. Generations later, it's considering an apology
Two years after the 1831 rejection, state legislators passed what was called the “Black Law,” making it illegal to run a school to educate out-of-state Black people. That law was cited in the ...
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New Haven To Consider Apology For Failure To Establish A College For Black Men In 1831
popularly referred to as the Black Law, which forbade Black people from outside of Connecticut from getting an education in Connecticut without the permission of individual towns in the state.