As one of the most famous cases in American history, that of Brown v. Board of Education was actually five separate cases heard by the Supreme Court regarding segregation in public schools. It began in a Topeka, Kansas school district where a student had to walk miles to attend a black sc...
To answer that question, we have to go all the way back to 1970 and the Supreme Court case ofNorth Carolina v. Alford. Back in 1963, Henry Alford had been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the state of North Carolina—where the penalty for such a crime could include deat...
Judging by the fact that he managed to drag an uncleared sample case from a much more famous artist than Gilbert O’Sullivan all the way to the Supreme Court — andwin— the answer is yes. Like Biz Markie, 2 Live Crew had asked permission to use a sample – in this case"Oh! Pretty...
I’ll tell you right now, Child had nothing to do with this blog and even if she did, it’s clearly free speech and the miscreants need to review both the Citizens United case (distributing a trashy lie filled lengthy video about Hillary right before and election) and the Alvarez case (...
In 1955, one of the most famous events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement occurred. Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 after refusing to give up her bus seat for a white man. Rosa’s refusal sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. ...
BOOKSHELF: The Supreme Court and Its Most Famous Justice.Reviews the book `Law Without Values,' by Albert W. Alschuler.Wall Street Journal - Eastern EditionLefkowitzJayP.
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When Bozoma Saint John stepped onto the stage at Apple’s famous developer conference in June, she brought all 6 feet of her fierceness to her presentation; she also brought the Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” much to the pleasure of the audience of 3,000. As global head of ...
The memes usually consisted of Hov lunging in the direction of another famous person doing something. For one meme, a Twitter user pasted Hov onto an image of Miley Cyrus twerking in front of Robin Thicke at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. For another one, Diving Jay is lunging toward ...