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Today is the 157th  anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln when the outcome of the rebellion of the Southern slave states against the Union was still up in the air was a watershed for civil rights in the United States. Though it was a military order that only affected slaves in the rebellious states, it also set the stage for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and other legal rulings that affected not only African Americans and former slaves, but also Native Americans, Women, other racial minorities and LGBTQ people. It is something that in...

GBA Vice President gets Methodist Church appointment The Methodist Church Ghana, has inducted Mr William Orleans Kwaku Arko Oduro, Vice President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), as the Lay President of the Church Conference. As the 19th Lay President out of 20 Lay Chairmen, Mr Oduro becomes the second in command after the Presiding Bishop. The induction ceremony, facilitated by The Most Reverend Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo, the Presiding Bishop of the Church, charged the Lay President to assist the Presiding Bishop in giving leadership to the Church in addition to carrying out duties that m...

Spread the love The question dealing with the press is not something new. Matthew Lyon was the first person to be put on trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, after publishing criticism of President John Adams. The Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized the “writing, printing, uttering or publishing [of] any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings about the government of the United States.” Indeed, Trump could have and should have charged people from the media who clearly violated that Act. Lyon was sentenced to four months in jail. While imprisoned, he was ele...