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Including Inglewood Airport Area • Baldwin Hills • Crenshaw/LA • Ladera Heights VOL. 25, No. 7
February 18, 2016
Blacks and Balance on the High Court: How Justice Scalia’s Death May Impact African Americans By California Black Media Staff
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hen U.S. Marshals confirmed Justice Antonin Scalia died Saturday while on a hunting trip in Texas, the country lost one of its most persuasive and articulate conservative voices. From pointed positions on Affirmative Action and the death penalty to controversial takes on immigration and labor unions, the 79-yearold jurist stood up for moderate to hard-Right positions that usually put him at odds with a majority of African Americans—and many Democrats in general. To most conservatives, though, Scalia was a darling of
their movement. The passion and ideas he inserted into the opinions he wrote for the United States Supreme Court influenced national conservative thought and policy way beyond the
Justice Antonin Scalia
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Justice Scalia’s vacant seat draped scope of those legal arguments. “Most recently, Justice Scalia set off a national firestorm,” says Mark T. Harris, an African-American attorney and professor at the University of California, Merced. “During oral arguments in Fisher
in black. vs. University of Texas, the University of Texas’ so-called Affirmative Action case,” Harris points out, “Justice Scalia questioned whether counsel were familiar with a premise from the book “Mismatch,” authored (Continued on page 2)
Inglewood Honors Black History Month By Thomas Bunn
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n 1926, Academic and Professor Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History created Negro History Week, in efforts to teach students of the contributions of African Americans. 44 years later four students from Kent State University, proposed to extend their Negro History Week celebration from one week to a month, and in 1976 as part of the United States Bicentennial, President Gerald Ford and the (Continued on page 10)
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