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Gail M Whitaker, a longtime member of Media Borough Council, and the first Black woman to practice law in Delaware County, died Dec. 5. She was 81. The Media Borough resident valued the borough ...
The 50th anniversary featured a panel discussion with past presidents spanning the 50 years of BWL. The panelists shared ...
Black Alabamians had come from all over to see the Columbia University-trained woman lawyer who famously “took no prisoners,” recalls Clarence Jones, a close adviser to King. Courthouse ...
The team believes that a Black woman lawyer would add a needed and necessary voice and presence to what the former Bad Boy Records mogul and his team have long felt is a racially tinged case ...
Judge Cynthia J. Ayers, the first elected Black woman judge on the Marion County Superior Court bench, died April 19 at age ...
I saw this Black woman lawyer who went on to be the first woman on the federal court,” Braithwaite Nelson said. “Not only did I see her, but everyone at P.S. 134, I.S. 192, Andrew Jackson High ...
Sharpe, who strongly denies the rape claim, accused the plaintiff's attorney of "targeting Black men." Sharpe's lawyer called the accusation "viciously false." ...