(BPRW) Durbin Calls On Colleagues To Support Nomination Of Eunice Lee To The Second Circuit Court Of Appeals (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor in support of Eunice Lee’s nomination to serve on the Second Circuit Court of […]
Civil rights attorney Lee Meritt has formally announced his candidacy for attorney general of Texas, the Dallas Morning News reports. Merrit will face off in the Democratic primary against Joe Jaworski, former mayor of Galveston whose also a lawyer, with the hopes of unseating the Republican incumbent Ken Paxton. Other Republicans, including Land Commissioner George […]
Did you know that the ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’, Opal Lee, is a sorority sister of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.? In 2016, at the age of 89 years old, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to the nation’s capital in an effort to get Juneteenth named a national holiday. “My idea […]
Opal Lee, a staunch activist who has been petitioning to make Juneteenth a federal holiday for more than 40 years, shared a wholesome response after seeing her hard work finally come to fruition. “I’ve got so many feelings all gurgling up here. I don’t know what to call them all,” the 94-year-old said after learning […]
Dora Lee Jones helped establish the Domestic Workers’ Union in Harlem in 1934, which is believed to be a stepping stone in ending domestic slavery. The group was first began by a group from Finland and African-Americans in California, who saw the necessity for a fight against the exploitation of Black domestic workers. The Union members […]
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Four years after the execution of Ledell Lee, who was convicted of murder, DNA testing has revealed that genetic material on the murder weapon belongs to another man. Lawyers affiliated with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union revealed the new genetic profile, which has now been uploaded to a national criminal database in an […]
Dallas, Texas attorney Lee Merritt has announced he will run for Texas Attorney General in 2022. Merritt will run against current sitting AG Ken Paxton. Merritt was compelled to run for office after the recent death of Marvin Scott III according to Texas Public Radio. Scott died while in police custody in Collin County jail […]
Megan Thee Stallion and House Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee are joining forces to help Houstonians recover from Winter Storm Uri, which devastated the state last month and left millions without access to power or water for days, according to People and Variety. CBS News reported last month that the storm could cost Texas up to $295 […]