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‘Use the Restroom in the Back of the Plane’: Retired Black Judge Seated In First Class Claims American Airlines Crew Member Threatened Her with Arrest Over Lavatory Use
A retired Black circuit court judge from Chicago is suing American Airlines for racial discrimination, claiming a male flight attendant told her to “use the restroom in the back of the plane ...
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State lawmakers table contested Circuit Court judge election measure
MoCo Sen. William C. Smith Jr. says 'the votes are not there' for the contested Circuit Court judge election measure.
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The story behind Beyoncé's Chitlin' Circuit tour name
But "Chitlin' Circuit" might raise some questions in your mind. From the late 1880s until the 1960s, so-called Jim Crow laws enforced segregation against black Americans and saw them treated as ...
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1st Black woman named 14th Circuit judge
Rock Island attorney Tionn Fambro Carter has been appointed an Associate Judge of the 14 th Judicial Circuit of Illinois. She was appointed to the position by the Circuit Judges of the 14 th ...
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'You couldn't ask for a better gentleman': Former circuit judge Lewis dead at 77
Theodis "Ted" Lewis, the first Black judge to be appointed to the Seventh Judicial Circuit, died at his home in Chatham on Feb. 17. He was 77. A native of Little Rock, Ark., who attended Illinois ...
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Fifth Circuit slaps down vote dilution claims by minority coalition in Galveston redistricting fight
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Thursday voter dilution claims by a coalition of different minority group in a redistricting case concerning maps drawn by Galveston County’s ...