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  2. Annotated Code of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Melony G. Griffith, Larry Hogan and Adrienne A. Jones enacting Maryland law in April 2022. The Annotated Code of Maryland, published by The Michie Company, is the official codification of the statutory laws of Maryland. It is organized into 36 named articles. The previous code, organized into numbered articles, has been repealed. [1]

  3. List of first women lawyers and judges in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Bonnie G. Schneider (1988): [52] First female judge in Cecil County, Maryland; Donine Carrington (1995): [48] First African American female to serve on the Charles County Circuit Court (2017) [Charles County, Maryland] Betty Bright Nelson (c. 1950s): [53] First woman to practice law in Dorchester County, Maryland

  4. List of African-American holidays - Wikipedia

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 1986: The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] June 19: Juneteenth National Independence Day: 2021: Commemorates General Order No. 3, the legal decree issued in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Galveston, Texas, at the end of the American Civil War. [2]

  5. African-American women in the legal profession - Wikipedia

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    Black women of this period continued to break barriers. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed became the first Black woman editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1982. [14] In 2021, there were 28 Black women law school deans in the United States, an all time high. [15] In 2018, 19 Black women were elected to the Harris County courts in Houston. [16]

  6. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake - Wikipedia

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    In 2007 [41] and 2011, [42] Rawlings-Blake was honored by the Daily Record as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women. Rawlings-Blake was named as a Shirley Chisholm Memorial Award Trailblazer by the National Congress of Black Women , Washington, DC Chapter (2009) [ 43 ] and as an Innovator of the Year by the Maryland Daily Record (2010). [ 44 ]

  7. Clearing the air. Big Brother alum Jackson Michie apologized after sharing an Instagram post that left some fans confused about his stance on the Black Lives Matter movement. “So, I turn 25 this ...

  8. International Afro-descendant Women's Day - Wikipedia

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    International Women's Strike 2018, Buenos Aires. The International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women, [1] shortly known as B.L.A.C Women's Day, also known as the International Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women's Day [2] and International Afro-descendant Women's Day (Spanish: Día Internacional de la Mujer Afrodescendiente), [3] is linked to Afrofeminism ...

  9. History of African Americans in Baltimore - Wikipedia

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    All black schools were self-sustaining, receiving no state or local government funds, and whites in Baltimore generally opposed educating the black population, continuing to tax black property holders to maintain schools from which black children were excluded by law. Baltimore's black community, nevertheless, was one of the largest and most ...