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Jeffries during the 112th Congress. In January 2012, Jeffries announced that he would give up his Assembly seat to run for the U.S. House from New York's 8th congressional district. Jeffries expected to give Towns a strong challenge in the Democratic primary—the real contest in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries (born January 13, 1973) [1] is a history professor and author at The Ohio State University. He is the brother of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the U.S. House Minority Leader. [2] He is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former political science professor at City College of New York.
In 1992, Jeffries first got his term shortened from three years to one, and then was removed as chair of the department of African-American studies, but allowed to stay as a professor. He sued the school, and in August 1993 a federal jury found that his First Amendment rights had been violated. But Jeffries had been unanimously reappointed as ...
“Our nation is forever indebted to Rep. Payne, Jr. for his service and commitment to his community, to the Congress, […] The post Members of Congress ‘saddened’ by the death of New Jersey ...
Since entering Congress in 2013, Jeffries has been true to his roots. For instance, he was lead sponsor of a 2015 measure outlawing police use of the chokehold and other tactics hindering a person ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is being forced to explain why he defended the inflammatory, antisemitic remarks that his uncle, Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries, made more ...
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
Liz Jeffords died on the morning of April 13, 2007, after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. Jeffords and his wife had two children, Leonard and Laura, both of whom live and work in the Washington, D.C., area. After his wife's death, Jeffords resided in Washington, D.C., a move he made in order to live near his son and daughter. [10]