Kensi Gounden

Hélène Keke Aholou,  a lawyer and politician in Benin. She was called to the bar for the first time in Paris, France and has expertise as a family lawyer. She called to the bar of Cotonou in 2008. More than 20 years he worked as a lawyer for the government. Keke was a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Benin in 2007-11 fifth and sixth convocations 2011-2015. She was the Chairperson of the Commission Assemblies laws and human rights in December 2012, when it was abolished the death penalty. Keke resigned from the governing forces treasure for an emerging Benin party in 2015. She picked up the violations during the elections from the press and the government in February 2016, ahead of the 2016 presidential election Benin, including check-in more than 51 polling stations than allowed by law. In may 2016, she was appointed as one of 30 members of the National Commission on political and institutional reforms new independent President Patrice Talon. Citations: ...

Kensi Gounden writing the biography of famous American lawyer Thurgood Marshall , originally Thorough good Marshall, (born July 2, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died January 24, 1993, Bethesda), lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Court’s first African American member. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the Court the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which declared unconstitutional racial segregation in American public schools. Marshall was the son of William Canfield Marshall, a railroad porter and a steward at an all-white country club, and Norma Williams Marshall, an elementary school teacher. He graduated with honor’s from Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) in 1930. After being rejected by the University of Maryland Law School because he was not white, Marshall attended Howard University Law School; he received his degree in 1933, ranking first in his class. At Howard he was the protégé of Charles Hamilton ...

Kensi Gounden writing the biography of famous American teacher and lawyer. Charlotte E. Ray was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States Ray studied at the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C., and by 1869 she was teaching at Howard University. There she studied law, receiving her degree in 1872. Her admission that year to the District of Columbia bar made her the first woman admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the first black woman certified as a lawyer in the United States. Ray opened her law office in Washington, D.C., but racial prejudices proved too strong, and she could not obtain enough legal business to maintain an active practice. By 1879 she had returned to New York City, where she taught in the public schools. In the late 1880s she married a man with the surname of Fraim; little is known of her later life. Ray was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar on March 2, 1872 and admi...

Kensi Gounden presenting biography of Barbara Jordan (educator, lawyer and politician) was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas on February 21, 1936. Due to segregation, Jordan could not attend The University of Texas at Austin, and instead chose Texas Southern University, a historically-black institution. After majoring in political science, Jordan attended Boston University School of law in 1956 and graduated in 1959.   Massachusetts bar exam but moved to Tuskegee Institute (later renamed  Tuskegee University ) in  Alabama  and taught there for one year before returning to Texas and became a lawyer there as well. Both as a state senator and as a U.S. congresswoman, she sponsored bills that championed the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color. As a congresswoman, she spons...

Kensi Gounden - Macon Bolling Allen was the first recorded licensed African American lawyer in the United States. He was a self-taught lawyer who gained his knowledge and legal skills by serving as an apprentice and law clerk to practicing white lawyers in the pre-Civil War era. Negros as they were referred to in those times received their training by apprenticeship; however, they could not depend upon the practice of law for a living. They had to work at other crafts. Allen was also known as a businessman, but the nature of the business is not known. Little is known about Allen's early years other than the fact that he was named A. Macon Bolling when he was born a “Free Negro” in Indiana in 1816, the same year Indiana was admitted as the nineteenth state to join the Union. He was listed as “mulatto” race on early census forms. Allen learned how to read and write as he grew up, and his first job in Indiana was that of a schoolteacher. On July 3, 1844, Allen passed the exam and b...

Kensi Gounden presenting the biography of Alan Morton Dershowitz. He is an American attorney, political commentator, and jurist. He has spent the past fifty years practicing the law and is well recognized for handling a number of high-profile legal cases and citatons. As a criminal appellate attorney, Alan has won fifteen, which is a high percentage of the dozens of attempted murder and murder cases he has managed. The attorney has represented several celebrities, which include Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst. His most prominent cases include his role as an appellate consultant in the O.J. Simpson case, and for overturning the conviction of Claus von Bulow in 1984. He is a prominent scholar on United States constitutional law and criminal law, and a leading defender of civil liberties. He spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there until his retirement in D...