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Federal Judge and Civil Rights Icon Damon J. Keith Dead at 96
Judge Damon J. Keith, a civil rights icon who became the sixth black person in U.S. history to serve on the federal court of appeals, died at his home in Detroit Sunday morning surrounded by family. He was 96. Keith, a grandson of slaves who was born July 4, 1922, in Detroit, served as a…
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94-Year-Old Black Judge Writes Scathing Dissent in Ohio’s Longest-Running Civil Rights Case
Federal appeals judge Damon Keith is one of several black judges involved in Ohio’s longest-running voting lawsuit, one that strikes at the heart of voter suppression in one of the most significant of the “battleground states.” And he’s not the only one. In the decade-old case, Judge Keith said he was “deeply saddened and distraught”…