Civil Rights

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 7 days ago
The Madison Department of Civil Rights celebrated Richard Davis at its annual picnic on Thursday. Davis was awarded the James C. Wright Human Rights Award. Write is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 10 days ago
On a history-making night in this old river city, Democrat Barack Obama gave thanks for the Civil Rights pioneers he said made possible his once unlikely but so far successful campaign for president. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 3 days ago
The bronze-and-granite sculpture honors a 1951 protest at an all-black Prince Edward high school. The newest monument on Capitol Square recalls the fight for racial justice and a crusade that began on April 23, 1951. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 4 days ago
The 31 high-schoolers who had crammed into the breakfast nook of the northeast Jackson LaQuinta Inn Saturday afternoon talked avidly amongst themselves. ...

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 4 days ago
RICHMOND (AP) -- For generations their bronze ranks have included only the most elite figures in Virginia history: Statues of Maj. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, former Gov. William "Extra Billy" Smith Sr. and author Edgar Allen Poe are among those standing on the grounds outside Virginia's capitol in Richmond. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
The candidate downplays the possibilities, but an election victory would change the shape of a movement. ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 12 days ago
Editorial: Did Lillian Ladele, the Islington registrar who refused to conduct gay marriages, ever wonder if she was in the right job? ...

Source: www.law.harvard.edu --- 13 days ago
Interested in competing in the Second Annual Emory Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition on Friday, October 10 through Sunday, October 12, 2008? ...

Source: www.ajc.com --- 8 days ago
The board of the Atlanta Development Authority recommended Thursday giving $40 million to the planned Center for Civil & Human Rights. ...

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Source: www.azstarnet.com --- 7 days ago
PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration and crime sweeps are being targeted in a lawsuit that alleged his officers have racially profiled countless Hispanics. ...

Source: www.wickedlocal.com --- 9 days ago
Attorney Wendy Murphy filed an action for a Civil Rights injunction against state Sen. Jim Marzilli, D-Arlington, with Judge Thomas Billings in Middlesex Superior Court Tuesday afternoon. The injunction, if granted, will operate similar to a restraining order on behalf of all women, carrying a penalty of up to 10 years in state prison if Marzilli is convicted of assaulting a woman after the injunction is issued, Murphy said. “The defendant, James Marzilli, engaged in a pattern of offensive, intimidating, harassing, threatening and coercive behavior against at least seven separate women, with whom he had no prior intimate relationship, because they were women,” the complaint states. Murphy, who is representing three plaintiffs listed by pseudonyms in the injunction, said she waited to see what happened during Marzilli's arraignment in Lowell Superior Court last week, but was disappointed the judge only barred Marzilli from the city of Lowell and prohibited contact with the four alleged female victims in that case. "I think he's got to be restrained with a heavier hand," Murphy said. "All women should have a concern." The injunction includes two new allegations not yet made public by a single mother who lives in Stow and a minister living in Somerville. The Somerville woman, given the pseudonym Ellen Doe, attended a Deval Patrick event in June 2006 featuring presidential candidate and Patrick-supporter Barack Obama. At the event, Marzil ...

Source: www.publicbroadcasting.net --- 7 days ago
Senator John McCain reached out to the NAACP Wednesday at the organization's national convention in Cincinnati. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee says whether or not he wins the support of members, he'll need the group's council if elected. ...

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Source: www.denverpost.com --- 11 days ago
The Rev. Jesse Jackson linked Sen. Barack Obama's viability as a presidential candidate to a Civil-Rights struggle that began with a fight to desegregate schools a half century ago. ...

Source: themoderatevoice.com --- 8 days ago
Your daily dose of Civil Rights and related news. I’m going to New York this afternoon and won’t be back until late tomorrow, so the roundup will be off until Monday What is the world coming to when hippies attack the homeless ? An Arizona sheriff is being accused of racial profiling in his aggressive efforts to roundup undocumented immigrants. The University of Texas is working to make sure websites which document human Rights atrocities don’t disappear. Prison guard fired for wearing a beard in accordance with his religious obligations. Missouri ordered to bolster efforts at registering low-income residents to vote. ACLU will defend Amish in suit over how to label their horse-drawn buggies . Census won’t count gay marriages . Latino squad earns respect at Watts basketball tournament . A 3rd Circuit panel held that removing disruptive Christian protesters from a gay pride event was constitutionally permissible. In an opinion joined by the third justice on the panel, Judge Dolores K. Sloviter justified the removal because the protesters went beyond distributing literature and waving signs, and actively attempted to drown out the proceedings. A concurring opinion also would have upheld the removal, but on the grounds that the protesters used “fighting words” when they referred to a transgender woman as a “she-male” and told her she would be going to hell. The NAACP was cordial but not exactly warm when John McCain came visiting . ...

Source: www.foxcarolina.com --- 8 days ago
A former South Carolina trooper caught on video kicking a suspect in the head is facing a federal Civil Rights charge. ...

Source: themoderatevoice.disqus.com --- 11 days ago
Your daily dose of Civil Rights and related news In today’s no kidding file: NAACP head: Obama win won’t solve racial injustice. The Washington Post has an article about out gay youth. The nation’s oldest Black sorority is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Historians to judges: Stop pretending to be ...