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Macon Bolling Allen (born Allen Macon Bolling; August 4, 1816 – October 15, 1894) was an American attorney who is believed to be the first African American to become a lawyer and to argue before a jury, and the second to hold a judicial position in the United States.
A recent court filing disclosed how bystanders in Brooklyn Park armed themselves with anything in their reach to fend off two pit bull mixes as they gravely wounded a toddler and seriously injured ...
Jane Matilda Bolin was born on April 11, 1908, in Poughkeepsie, New York.She had ten siblings. Her father, Gaius C. Bolin, was a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College, [2] and her mother, Matilda Ingram Emery, [3] was an immigrant from the British Isles who died when Bolin was 8 years old.
John Stewart Rock (October 13, 1825 – December 3, 1866) was an American teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer and abolitionist, historically associated with the coining of the term "black is beautiful" (thought to have originated from a speech he made in 1858, however historical records now indicate he never actually used the specific phrase on that day). [5]
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
When a hurricane destroyed her home, a mom thought her late son's photos were gone for good, but a miracle brought them back. ... Ronnie Li, USA TODAY. February 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM.
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
Skin is in! There have been no shortage of wardrobe malfunctions in 2017, and we have stars like Bella Hadid, Chrissy Teigen and Courtney Stodden to thank for that.