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2009-07-10T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Civil rights group warns of neo-Nazis in the US military
Christian Science Monitor - USA
The SPLC, a civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala., delivered its report to the House and Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security ...
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Vote Suppression Expert Spakovsky About To Be Confirmed in ...
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
by Dems2004 Hans von Spakovsky is likely to be confirmed to a volunteer post on a commission that advises the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), ...
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Casket of Civil Rights Figure Found Damaged
Chicago Public Radio - Chicago,IL,USA
Officials investigating a burial scheme at the Burr Oak cemetery have found the damaged casket of civil rights figure Emmett Till. ...
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New York Times

Civil Rights Group Divided Over Gay Marriage
New York Times - United States
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference — the 50-year-old civil rights organization founded by the Rev. ...
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Civil rights advocate cleared in voter fraud case
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
By Barbara Carmen A fraud probe has cleared a civil-rights advocate who drove 600 miles back to Ohio to cast his ballot for Barack Obama. ...
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Demolition Specialists: The Supreme Court's 2008/2009 Term
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
DeStefano is an example of this approach to dismantling civil rights laws. Alliance for Justice Legal Director Bill Yeomans, an expert in civil rights law ...
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Some Texas curriculum advisers want less time on civil rights leaders
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
Two conservatives are recommending the Texas education board reduce the amount of time students spend studying civil rights leaders such as César Chávez and ...
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Civil rights leader to be laid to rest Wednesday
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
By SEAN O'SULLIVAN • The News Journal • July 10, 2009 The funeral for Delaware civil rights pioneer Littleton Mitchell will be 10:30 am Wednesday at Christ ...
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Raphael M. Coel, civil-rights activist, dies at 85
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By JOHN F. MORRISON RAPHAEL McKINLEY Coel, a civil-rights leader who worked in many of the crusades for racial justice in the Philadelphia of the 1960s, ...
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Civil rights, please
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
Participants in the women's liberation and suffrage movements and the civil rights movement had to fight against prevailing discriminatory arguments that ...
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Box Turtle Bulletin » Rev. Lee Threated by Nat'l Civil Rights ...
By Timothy Kincaid
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the 50-year-old civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, is seeking to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response to his support ...
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NewsChex - Welcome to NewsChex » Blog Archive » Civil rights group ...
By Jessica
Civil rights group warns of neo-Nazis in the US military. Christian Science Monitor Atlanta - The appearance of 40 active-duty US soldiers on a social networking site known as the "fascist Facebook" appears to add credibility to a ...
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Michael Eric Dyson Makes Interesting Statements about Blacks, Gays ...
By admin
Michael clears up the Civil Rights argument taking place between the black and the gay community. Stating that what black people fail to understand is that there.
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Classical Liberalism and the Fight for Civil Rights | The Beacon
By Jonathan Bean
Over at Reason.com, Damon Root has a review of my new book Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader (University Press of Kentucky, in association with.
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The Washington Monthly
By Steve Benen
TEXAS CONSERVATIVES WANT TO DOWNPLAY CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS.... The Texas Board of Education has put together a six-member committee to help develop new curriculum standards for social studies classes and textbooks. It's not going well. ...
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Civil Rights Leader Under Fire for Supporting SameSex Marriage ...
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2009-07-09T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Highland Park, Michigan, Police Officer Indicted on Civil Rights ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The case is being investigated by the FBI's Detroit Field Office and is being prosecuted by Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney Karima Maloney and ...
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Vanderbilt University News

Two Vanderbilt professors appointed to state civil rights commission
Vanderbilt University News - Nashville,TN,USA
Since its inception in 1957, the Commission on Civil Rights, an independent agency of the US government, has been at the forefront of efforts by federal and ...
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Gay legal groups want in on Calif court case
The Associated Press
... said the show of solidarity was coming too late since the same groups originally criticized a federal civil rights claim as premature. ...
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Dru's Vues, too: Honoring TN Civil Rights Activists
By noreply@blogger.com (Dru's Vues)
with Gary D. Bynum, Event Chair and Billy Fields, DCDP Chair. cordially invite you to attend: The Fifth Annual Democratic Party Honors Dinner & Patrons' Reception. Honoring The Nashville Civil Rights Movement. "We Won't Stop Now" ...
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WNYC - WNYC News Blog » Marian Anderson and the Civil Rights Movement
By WNYC Newsroom
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Marian Anderson's historic performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Today, Soundcheck looks at her legacy — as a civil rights figure and as a singer — with African American opera star ...
WNYC News Blog - http://blogs.wnyc.org/news/

Wolf blasts Holder, decision to dismiss civil rights lawsuit ...
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The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has a history of ideologically ...
By Tim
Unfortunately, the Civil Rights Division's Special Litigation Section (SPL), which initiated the investigation of Maricopa County, appears hell-bent on aiding these groups' efforts. SPL has a bad track record enforcing poorly defined ...
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Does The U.S. Constitution Already Make Gay Marriage Legal? | The ...
By David Badash
"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, ...
The New Civil Rights Movement - http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/

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2009-07-08T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters call for civil rights investigation
Workers World - USA
In 2004, the NAACP passed a resolution supporting a new trial for Abu-Jamal, and campaign supporters will be gathering to publicize the civil rights ...
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Police officer violates civil rights in beating of black man
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Charleston,WV,USA
The misdemeanors are called deprivation of rights under color of law, according to Paul Sheridan, West Virginia's deputy attorney general for civil rights. ...
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Judge rejects settlement in Illinois civil rights case over ...
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
By AP CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a settlement in a class action lawsuit that had been hailed by some as a historic leap forward for adults ...
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Former Jackson Police Department Officer Is Sentenced for Civil ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The case was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Erin Aslan of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and Assistant US Attorney Glenda Haynes of the US ...
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The Associated Press

NAACP reports resurgence of youth activism
The Associated Press
"A lot of things I have never experienced before I'm about to experience — the camaraderie, seeing civil rights persons that have come before me and paved ...
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Civil Rights in the Supreme Court: Wrapping up the 2008-2009 Term
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
Last week, the US Supreme Court handed down the final decisions of its 2008-2009 term, a year that saw many cases with civil rights implications. ...
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NEA calls for LGBT rights
365Gay.com - USA
Now so-called "liberals" in the straight community don't have to fight for us nor support our civil rights struggles anymore. The Messiah in the White House ...
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Civil rights cuts discussed at Community Social
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder - Minneapolis,MN,USA
by Lolla Mohammed Nur "We're here for civil rights!" about 50 community members chanted charismatically, while enjoying free homemade ice cream. ...
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Sotomayor missed opportunities to define views on civil rights law
Southeast Texas Record - Beaumont,TX,USA
Their unsigned order held that the civil service board "was simply trying to fulfill its obligations" under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Four months ...
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Examiner.com

The Civil Rights Collection at the Nashville Public Library
Examiner.com - USA
Opened in 2003, it is one of the finest collections of Civil Rights history in the country. The state-of-the-art room, designed to capture the drama and ...
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Philadelphia flyer for July 13th NYC Civil Rights demo for Mumia‏ ...
Author J. Patrick O'Connor interviewed about the campaign for a civil rights investigation into the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal · July 3 Washington DC rally‏ against FBI entrapment; > Troy Davis decision postponed! ...
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Former Jackson Police Department Officer Is Sentenced for Civil ...
By Editor
Former Jackson Police Department Officer Is Sentenced for Civil Rights Violation. Posted by Editor in July 8th 2009. Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE WASHINGTON (Map) - WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ ...
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J. Patrick O'Connor: Mumia Abu-Jamal Deserves Civil Rights ...
Join the campaign supporting a federal civil rights investigation: http://freemumia.com/civilrights.html. For more on the campaign, check out my article in the SF Bay View Newspaper (an excerpt concerning the suppression of the location ...
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Ethiopian News | AI warns Ethiopia anti-terrorism law anti-civil ...
By Elias Kifle
AI warns Ethiopia anti-terrorism law anti-civil rights. July 8th, 2009 | Categories: Ethiopia. (Amnesty International) — Reacting to the news that the Ethiopian [rubber-stamp] Parliament has today passed an Anti-Terror Proclamation in ...
Ethiopian Review - http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/

CSA for Dinner: Civil Rights for Salad | Blog | Culinary Competitor
By kara@karathom.com (Kara from Mama Sweat)
Through community supported agriculture and a backyard garden, how one mom helps her finicky family eat more vegetables (and love them).*** One of my pet peeves as Chef-in-Chief of my family is the notion that food can't touch other ...
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Google Alert - "civil rights"

2009-07-07T19:07:00.001-07:00

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Washington Times

National Park Service includes gays and lesbians in civil rights ...
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
William Clay's bill about the creation of a civil rights themed park trail. Mr. Clay's bill describes the trail as “marking the geographic locations in the ...
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Sessions Uses Sotomayor Nomination To Continue His Lifelong ...
Think Progress - Washington,DC,USA
In 1986, Sessions' nomination to the federal bench was rejected by the Senate because of Sessions' deep-seated hostility to the very notion of civil rights. ...
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Luminaries pay tribute to Michael Jackson as music, civil rights ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Music legends, sports figures and others paid tribute to Michael Jackson today during an emotion, song-filled service at Staples Center. ...
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Rockland council to tackle health care, civil rights
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
... there are many citizens of Rockland who would be affected by a repeal. "We have residents who are having their civil rights threatened," Dickerson said.
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Oregon city honors civil rights activist Klunder
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA
A memorial has been installed in Oregon to honor a native civil rights activist who died at a protest while living in Ohio. The 27-year-old pastor was ...
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Del. civil rights leader killed in crash
6abc.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
July 7, 2009 (WPVI) -- Littleton Mitchell, a well-known civil rights leader from Delaware, was killed in a two vehicle crash Monday in Delaware City, ...
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SOAPBOX: It's no violation of civil rights to disagree
The Salinas Californian - Salinas,CA,USA
That someone doesn't like or agree with you is not a violation of your civil rights. In fact, the only action that does infringe on your civil rights would ...
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Civil Rights Leaders Unite With Labor and Faith Leaders for Huge ...
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
Arlene Holt Baker, the first African-American executive officer of the AFL-CIO and widely known civil rights leader, will join other national labor, ...
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Civil Rights Activist Mitchell, 90, Dies In Crash
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
(AP) ― Delaware civil rights activist Littleton Mitchell has died in a crash near his Delaware City home. The crash occurred around 3 pm Monday on Wrangle ...
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Civil rights lawsuit settled
Connellsville Daily Courier - Connellsville,PA,USA
... then retaliated against for reporting it -- has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit she filed against the school, its administrator and a teacher. ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: "civil rights"

Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights Director Michael Jordan ...
By admin
On Monday (7/6/09), at Minneapolis City Hall, the Health, Energy and Environment Committee, standing committee of the Minneapolis City Council, met to discuss 6 line items, which included the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights ...
Independent Business News Network - http://ibnn.org/

Nelson v. Davis, No. 07-16905 - Civil Rights Law - U.S. Ninth Circuit
By Chris Edgar
In a 42 USC section 1983 action based on allegedly excessive force by police, summary judgment for Defendants... - Civil Rights Law.
US Ninth Circuit - http://blogs.findlaw.com/ninth_circuit/

Civil Rights Leaders Hold Moment of Silence Tribute in Final ...
By EO Entertainment EO at EO Entertainment Group
No user responded in " Civil Rights Leaders Hold Moment of Silence Tribute in Final Memory of Michael Jackson as Civil Rights Activist Before Jackson Staples Memorial Start ". Subscribes to this post comment rss or trackback url ...
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Newark Post - Newark, DE > News > Civil rights giant Littleton ...
Civil rights pioneer Littleton Michell, was killed in a two-vehicle accident near the Valero Refinery in Delaware City. Mitchell, who grew up in Milford, was the longtime president of the NAACP of Delaware. He received numerous honors ...
News from www.newarkpostonline.com - http://www.newarkpostonline.com/

Garczynski v. Bradshaw, No. 08-16100 - Civil Rights Law - U.S. ...
By Chris Edgar
In a 42 USC section 1983 action alleging excessive use of force by the police, summary judgment for... - Civil Rights Law.
US Eleventh Circuit - http://blogs.findlaw.com/eleventh_circuit/

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2009-07-06T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Former Montgomery officer pleads to civil rights violations
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
Former Montgomery police officer Matthew Leavitt pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor civil rights violations in federal court on Monday. ...
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A Night with Dick Gregory: Political Activist and Civil Rights ...
PRLog.Org (press release) - TX,USA
Gregory is not only an applauded political activist and civil rights leader, but he is an accomplished actor, author, comedian and nutritionist. ...
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New York Times

Appointees Who Really Govern America
New York Times - United States
In contrast, in the 1960s, when the Warren Court put itself in the vanguard of change through its championing of equality and civil rights and in the ...
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Former Florida State Corrections Officer Sentenced to Three Years ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
16, 2009 , of violating the civil rights of an inmate at the Florida State Prison in Raiford while on duty as a supervisory corrections officer. ...
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Former Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
Matthew Leavitt pleaded guilty Monday morning to two civil rights violations in federal court. Leavitt is accused of beating Twan Reynolds and lacking ...
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Firefighters and the simmering race problem
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, said the court, can't be overridden by deciding to do nothing. Now the case has been returned to the lower courts to be ...
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President Obama Seeks to Build Up Medvedev Over Putin
ABC News - USA
... the President was also asked if "restart"ing the US-Russian relationship would mean less attention paid to Russia's observation of civil rights and ...
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Governor of Queensland does not recognise civil rights issues
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Governor, Penelope Wensley, has maintained a dogged silence in relation to corroborated judicial abuse and corruption ...
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Op-Ed Contributor Leaning on the Dragon
New York Times - United States
Since June 1, the Chinese government has effectively disbarred more than a dozen prominent civil rights lawyers, made a mockery of the UN Human Rights ...
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There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Judicial Restraint
Wall Street Journal - USA
It decided the case solely by interpreting civil rights statutes -- and it did so on the narrowest possible grounds. This modest jurisprudential approach is ...
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AL Inside Scoop » Civil Rights Pioneer, Librarian E.J. Josey Dies ...
By Leonard Kniffel
07.06.09. Civil Rights Pioneer, Librarian E.J. Josey Dies at 85. Posted in Uncategorized at 9:13 am by Leonard Kniffel. News reached the ALA Council list yesterday evening that Elonnie Junius Josey, better known as E. J., ...
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Postmodern Conservative — A First Things Blog
By Peter Lawler
It supports the Tocquevillian thought that things are mainly getting better and worse, as well as the thought that the aggressive nationalizing of the civil rights movement was in response to a state and local failure of self-government ...
Postmodern Conservative - http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/

Cavataio v. City of Bella Villa, No. 08-2708 - Civil Rights Law ...
By Hannah Yu
In an action for excessive force and assault and battery, district court's grant of summary judgment for defendant... - Civil Rights Law.
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties ...
By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice...
Whatever else the Supreme Court did, it did not shut the court house door to plaintiffs seeking relief under federal civil rights laws, nor did it prohibit governments from taking steps to eliminate discriminatory hiring practices. ...
Blog of Rights: Official Blog... - http://blog.aclu.org/

Baker City Herald | Baker County Oregon's News Leader - Memorial ...
"(Civil rights pioneer and U.S. Rep.) John Lewis of Georgia was the speaker and was describing the then recently held dedication ceremony for the memorial," Doherty wrote. "At that time, I realized I was the only person present, ...
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2009-07-05T19:07:00.001-07:00

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Memphis part 3 – The Lorraine Motel, the National Civil Rights ...
Examiner.com - USA
Dr. King and his best friend and partner in the civil rights movement, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, stayed at Memphis' Lorraine Motel so often that Suite 306 was ...
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Where they went
Boston Globe - United States
WHY: "We'd talked about doing a civil rights trip for some time,'' Plummer said. "We were particularly interested in visiting the Southern Poverty Law ...
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The Union Leader

Milford civil rights advocate Iris Thompson celebrates century mark
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
Civil rights activist Iris Thompson of Milford, who turned 100 last week, is shown in this photo taken in her younger years. ...
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Accused civil rights violators will stay in jail
WPDE - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
Those men are charged with violating the civil rights of an African-American man. In December of 2007, Deandre Moore stopped to use a restroom at a store in ...
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Star lawyer makes Supreme Court splash
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
And that's where Coleman runs into opposition from civil rights and minority rights advocates who believe the programs he's targeted are essential to ...
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The Supreme Court in summation
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
At the same time, in some cases the court achieved consensus in a way that didn't upend protections for civil rights or usurp the prerogatives of Congress. ...
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Examiner.com

Civil rights veteran savors Emmy wins
Examiner.com - USA
The shows were projects of the Andrew Young Foundation, Inc. which the civil rights veteran established to promote understanding between diverse groups. ...
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Measuring up
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA
It took a Civil War, a civil rights movement and the federal government to give the words in the declaration's second paragraph true meaning. ...
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Century of life for a local civil-rights leader
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
If using words and personal example rather than sticks and stones to settle differences and effecting social change brings a legendary civil-rights activist ...
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Final Cost Of Firefighter Case Unknown
By FireFightingNews.com (New Haven Register)
City attorneys claimed they did so out of concern the results violated the "disparate impact" prohibitions in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and left the city open to a lawsuit. The white firefighters (the Latino firefighter is ...
All Countries - Fire and Rescue News - http://www.firefightingnews.com/

Gordon Campbell » Blog Archive » The Erosion Of Justice
By banjo
As the civil rights we enjoy get whittled away, the pattern is becoming very familiar. Initially, fresh powers of search, detention, use of secret evidence etc are sought by the authorities for what is claimed to be a very narrow and ...
Gordon Campbell - http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/

No H8 « Vintage Verwood
By Aderyn Verwood
Why deny civil rights to citizens? The religious groups may hold the views they chose, even if they don't agree with mine. But the law and the government should not distinct between people based on who these want to live with. ...
Vintage Verwood - http://aderynverwood.wordpress.com/

Thomas Kraemer: Oregonian Hovde antigay like Obama
By Thomas Kraemer
I know a lot of black churches take offense when gay activists say that the gay movement is somehow analogous to the black civil rights movement. And while there is some relationship between the persecution of gays and the ...
Thomas Kraemer - http://thomaskraemer.blogspot.com/

Malaysia-Today.net - No Holds Barred, Corridors of Power and more ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who struggled for the equality of civil rights by organising protest marches and peaceful demonstrations, only to be accused of breaking the social order, going against the Bible and betraying Christian ...
Malaysia Today - http://mt.m2day.org/2008/

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2009-07-04T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Gays Left Waiting and Wondering
New York Times - United States
Since his election, President Obama has had unprecedented opportunities to lead and educate on civil rights for gay Americans. ...
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Significant rulings of US Supreme Court term
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The decision - overruling an appeals court that included Sotomayor - was denounced by civil rights groups as a blow to workplace diversity. ...
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The Associated Press

Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A civil rights group on whose board Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor served filed racial bias lawsuits over employment examinations ...
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New York Times

Study Finds Gaps in Aid for Non-English Speakers in State Civil Courts
New York Times - United States
The federal requirement to provide interpreters in federally financed programs goes back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and was underscored by the Clinton ...
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guardian.co.uk

The Human Rights Act: 800 years in the making
guardian.co.uk - UK
... Carta became the first document to set out the right of habeas corpus and establish a tradition of civil rights in Britain that still exists today. ...
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GatheredTogether.org » Should Christians Participate in Public ...
By seniorSOY
How would you act if Federal or State Laws denied you Civil Rights, Due Process in the Courts, Military service, equal housing, or employment and promotional opportunities because of your race, gender, or lifestyle choice? ...
GatheredTogether.org - http://gatheredtogether.org/

Bosphorus Reflections: Barry Stocker's Weblog: The US Civil War ...
By Barry Stocker
... 200 000 took that opportunity to take up arms against the Confederate salve holding republic), and finally that African-Americans should be given equal political and civil rights though that idea was expressed in qualified way. ...
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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Obama wants ...
By John Aravosis (DC)
But MoveOn doesn't lack the spine, and crave the cocktail parties, like our national gay civil rights groups. And now we have the second time that Obama has criticized MoveOn, and implicitly, its members. At some point, liberal groups, ...
AMERICAblog News| A great nation... - http://www.americablog.com/

Queer Equality Revolution: Exercising Constitutional Rights
By John Bisceglia
2008 - Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth - Mr. B.\ I would never, ever vote to take away another family's due civil rights, even if I had the INSANE OPPORTUNITY to do it "legally". ...
Queer Equality Revolution - http://gaytaxprotest.blogspot.com/

Hecate: I Am A Goddess-Damn Patriot
By Hecate
I grew up in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and on stories of my dad, the journalist, attending Dr. King's speeches and then -- sadly -- funeral. I grew up in the middle of the protests against Viet Nam, the protests against ...
Hecate - http://hecatedemetersdatter.blogspot.com/

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2009-07-03T19:06:00.001-07:00

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Group Sotomayor belonged to sued over job tests
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to ...
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Realtor, Civil Rights Activist Dempsey Travis Dies
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
Read more in our Privacy Policy Author, realtor and civil rights activist Dempsey Travis in a 1990 interview with CBS 2. Dempsey Travis had a handful of ...
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How will the Ricci decision affect employment law?
Examiner.com - USA
Last week the Supreme Court reversed a decision that is already raising controversy about the future of Civil Rights in America. If you haven't heard about ...
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A test of logic for civil rights
Financial Times - London,England,UK
By Christopher Caldwell For about four decades, the US has had a system of racial preference (affirmative action) meant to remedy the dire consequences of ...
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Russia loosens clasp on NGOs ahead of Obama visit
Reuters - USA
Obama will meet human rights groups during his July 6-8 visit, which is expected to focus the spotlight on Russia's civil rights environment. ...
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Oklahoma activist receives Human and Civil Rights Award
Tulsa Today - Tulsa,OK,USA
By Staff Report Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City civil rights activist, author, and former high school history teacher, was presented with the National ...
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4 decades later, freedom rider returns to Miss.
The Associated Press
There, he ran across the 1961 mug shot of a jailed civil-rights worker. The 19-year-old white woman had a calm but determined gaze. ...
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Apologize for foes of civil-rights laws
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
One hundred years later, the Civil Rights Act was passed with the votes of northern Republicans. The Yellow Dog Democrats of the South blocked and voted ...
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Recession has devastating effect on everyone's civil rights
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
It's also about how the erosion of our economy has a direct and devastating effect on civil rights. This doesn't affect just those with an immutable ...
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Charles Krauthammer: From affirmative action to racial colorblindness
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
(Such is the extreme race consciousness that the Civil Rights Act, of all things, has brought upon us.) Nor will it do, as New Haven tried, to throw out a ...
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The Online News Page » Sotomayor Tie to Civil Rights Group Eyed ...
By Editor
Sotomayor Tie to Civil Rights Group Eyed (source: TIME). A White House counsel says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund should not impact her nomination (source: ...
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White freedom rider returns to heroic honor in Miss., where her ...
By Emily Wagster Pettus
The former Freedom Rider said her civil rights work prepared her well for her career as a teacher and made her a role model for her children and grandchildren. However, a rift grew between her and many of her relatives in the South. ...
Breaking News - http://blog.taragana.com/n/

Sessions Claims Sotomayor Tied To "Extreme" Group
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group's papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of ...
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4 decades later, freedom rider returns to Miss. - Breaking News ...
Her assignment from Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers - who would be assassinated about two weeks later - was to observe other civil-rights workers at a picket line elsewhere in downtown Jackson. ...
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New Sotomayor documents show rights group work | Vote By Issues!
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Newly released documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's service on the board of a Puerto Rican civil rights organization show the group opposed Robert Bork's nomination to the high court more than two decades ago. ...
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2009-07-02T19:07:00.001-07:00

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New Sotomayor documents detail work of Puerto Rican rights group
CNN International - USA
By Bill Mears WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newly released documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's service on the board of a Puerto Rican civil rights ...
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Voice of America

White Firefighters Win Closely-Watched Employment Case
Voice of America - USA
City officials believed that offering promotions based on the results would violate the nineteen sixty-four Civil Rights Act. Title seven of that federal ...
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Ties That Bind: the NAACP and The Nation
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
By Flint Kellogg In 1909, when the founders of the NAACP needed help organizing their new civil rights group, they reached out to Oswald Garrison Villard, ...
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Supreme Court can't make race issue go away
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
In doing so, he put a severe limitation on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed to open the job market to blacks. Unlike in 1964, when blacks were being ...
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Obama praises Civil Rights Act's 45th anniversary
guardian.co.uk - UK
AP foreign, Thursday July 2 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama says the Civil Rights Act opened doors for freedom but inequities remain on the ...
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Rep. McGovern Letter to Sec. Clinton on Honduras Coup
Political Affairs Magazine - New York,NY,USA
Call on the coup government to respect the civil rights and liberties of the citizens and residents of Honduras. I welcome the Pentagon's announcement that ...
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Republicans Question Sotomayor's Role in Puerto Rican Group's ...
New York Times - United States
(The men were being held in preventive detention under a new federal bail law, and a coalition of civil-rights groups challenged the law. ...
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Obama on Civil Rights Act: Good but not good enough
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal discrimination, helping grant all Americans equal justice under the law – no matter what their gender or the color ...
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Civil Rights Leaders Raise Concerns Over Race Issues Following ...
WITN - USA
Civil rights leaders in Greenville held a meeting Thursday over their concerns about race issues following the shooting that killed two men in downtown ...
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Steve Rothaus
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
The LGBT community has achieved relatively little in terms of human and civil rights. There is no law on the books that protects homosexuals from ...
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GOP senator: Civil rights group Sotomayor advised took 'extreme ...
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
GOP senator: Sotomayor group's 'extreme positions'WASHINGTON — A top Republican senator says a Puerto Rican legal advocacy group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took extreme positions on capital punishment, abortion and ...
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Obama Foodorama: Lunch Counter Sit Ins And The Civil Rights Act
By Eddie Gehman Kohan
President Obama noted the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act today. Lunch counter sit-ins were a major part of the years-long non-violent protest campaigns that ultimately led to the passage of the Act, ...
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties ...
By Paul Cates, LGBT Project
The ACLU brought a lawsuit against the Library of Congress charging sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. After a trial last September, a federal court agreed, issuing a groundbreaking ruling that discriminating ...
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Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents :: Pivotal Civil Rights Victory ...
By Sue
The official lesbian correspondents of Pittsburgh.
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Curiosity Blog » Swift Beef Co. installs footbaths and bidets for ...
By admin
Swift Beef Co. installs footbaths and bidets for Muslim workers — and they still file civil rights complaints. July 2nd, 2009 admin Leave a comment Go to comments. From: Travis Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2009. Subject: Categories: english Tags: ...
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2009-07-01T19:07:00.000-07:00

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Chicago officer faces civil rights charge
United Press International - USA
Officer Craig Swistowicz, 38, was charged with "depriving another individual of his civil rights in violation" of federal law. ...
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City Faces Potential Civil Rights Lawsuit
WGRZ-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA
The city of Buffalo faces a potential civil rights lawsuit. The man who filed the suit this week claims police officers arrested him for no reason. ...
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Inside Costa Rica

Honduran Congress Suspend Civil Rights; Zelaya Vows To Return On ...
Inside Costa Rica - San Jose,Costa Rica
The Honduran Legislature approved earlier this afternoon a decree that suspends five of the rights of citizens in Honduras: the inviolable right of home, ...
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Former Memphis Police Officer Sentenced to Prison Term of Life ...
MarketWatch - USA
A jury convicted Sease in February 2009 of 44 counts of civil rights, narcotics, robbery, and firearms offenses. "The peace and prosperity of our nation ...
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New Haven Advocate

White Firefighters Win Bias Case
New Haven Advocate - New Haven,CT,USA
Shah — who is visibly distraught by the news — is a black neighborhood politician who recently lost a fight to rename a city street after the civil rights ...
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Brooklyn Straphanger Settles Civil Rights Lawsuit With Police
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
by Ryan Thompson (court@brooklyneagle.net), published online 07-01-2009 BROOKLYN â€" After a Brooklyn native of South Asian descent claimed to have been ...
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National Organization for Marriage plots course in gay marriage debate
Everyday Christian - Lexington,KY,USA
"The argument the other side makes is that if you're opposed to same-sex marriage then you are against civil rights and therefore are a bigot is false," ...
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Campus Progress

The Civil Rights Act in a Post-Obama World
Campus Progress - Washington,DC,USA
On the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, where we stand and where we must go in continuing the struggle for civil rights in America. ...
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Rochester's Civil Rights Struggle Preserved On New University of ...
University of Rochester Newsroom - Rochester,NY,USA
In the aftermath of the riots, Rochester became the birthplace of several civil rights strategies that would later serve as models across the nation. ...
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Examiner.com

Eddie has been added to your favorite examiners
Examiner.com - USA
On a monthly basis, the customers of the Stonewall Inn had to live in fear of being arrested, being assaulted and having their civil rights violated, ...
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Federal judge refuses to toss former waitress's civil rights ...
By Bureau News
Judge refuses to toss lawsuit against Nevada Gov.LAS VEGAS — A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit by a woman accusing Republican Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons of accosting her outside a Las Vegas restaurant in October 2006.
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ADF Alliance Alert » Washington: Court rulings loom on campaign ...
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Washington: Court rulings loom on campaign funds, civil rights. One News Now (AP): "The court's action Monday in a campaign finance case strongly hinted that its conservatives will be able to overturn long-standing limits on corporate ...
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News From Underground: Call for hearings on the Voting Rights Act ...
By mcm
Election Protection leader – the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – is urging Congress to ensure Section 2 will continue to advance the cause of voting equality. Last week I sent out an urgent email to Election Protection's ...
News From Underground - http://markcrispinmiller.com/

Gay Rights Are NOT Civil Rights « Rett Hatcher & Company
By Rett Hatcher
It ticks me off that the gay activists try and paint themselves as the new Civil Rights movement….African Americans were truly a persecuted group…They were also born that way…Being gay is a choice…This is also the reason that Prop 8 ...
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Iran News Watch: We are all Iranians
By Iran News Watch
They are quick to caution that the last thing the civil-rights movement needs is overt or covert support from Western governments. That would simply play into the Iranian regime's portrayal of the home-grown uprising as a ...
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2009-06-30T21:29:00.001-07:00

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The Supreme Court Says No To Quotas
Wall Street Journal - USA
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited intentional discrimination on the basis of "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. ...
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Jackson civil rights ceremonies set
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Blair Goldstein • bgoldstein@clarionledger.com • June 30, 2009 The event is scheduled for Thursday, honoring the late Medgar Evers, who was born July 2, ...
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Oregon Attorney General Announces 'Three Key Legislative Victories'
Salem-News.Com - OR,USA
Attorney General Kroger praises the Legislature for approving drug treatment, environmental crimes and civil rights initiatives. (SALEM, Ore. ...
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Court: Stay tuned on campaign funds, civil rights
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — On civil rights and campaign cash, the Supreme Court earned an "incomplete" grade in the term that just ended. There is a good chance the ...
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Conn. white firefighters victory shows the strategy errors of ...
Examiner.com - USA
Besides touching on the test results favoring white firefighters over blacks and the dread this might open the city to civil rights lawsuits, news reports ...
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Crossing the Lines revisits the Civil Rights Movement
Creative Loafing Atlanta - Atlanta,GA,USA
... Safe at Home), he's less than concerned about the burgeoning set of conflicts materializing into a Civil Rights Movement outside his front door. ...
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Fresh Look at Election Spending Looms
Wall Street Journal - USA
But the court left intact the concept of "disparate impact" on minorities giving rise to a civil-rights complaint, rather than ruling it unconstitutional. ...
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The Supreme Court's discrimination ruling: It's not black and white
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The opinion reaffirmed that the Civil Rights Act protects employees of every race against discrimination, while preserving the obligation of employers, ...
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Examiner.com

Obama vows support, but gay and lesbian groups will likely have to ...
Examiner.com - USA
Gay rights groups should take comfort in the fact that Obama compared their movement to the civil rights movement for African Americans. ...
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Supreme Court Votes in Favor of New Haven Fire Fighters
Examiner.com - USA
The 5-4 decision focused on the inherent contradiction in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits race-based hiring and promotional ...
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Court: Stay tuned on campaign funds, civil rights (AP) | Who Is ...
By admin
AP - On civil rights and campaign cash, the Supreme Court earned an incomplete grade in the term that just ended. There is a good chance the court will have a new member but the same right-of-center tilt when the justices return in late ...
Who Is President - http://www.whoispresident.com/

Lt. Dan Choi's Military Board Recommends Discharge | The New Civil ...
By David Badash
in Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Twitter. Post image for Lt. Dan Choi's Military Board Recommends Discharge. West Point grad Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq War veteran and Arabic linguist, is gay. He came out recently on The Rachel Maddow ...
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An 'incomplete' grade for Supreme Court; important decisions ahead ...
On civil rights and campaign cash, the Supreme Court earned an.
Economy/AP - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/

theblogprof: Why Is Detroit, 81% Black, Still Using Affirmative ...
By The blogprof
For one, he's not a civil rights leader. Civil rights leaders don't say "civil rights for me, but not for thee!" Sheffield, in fact, is a proponent instead of reparations for slavery. Nothing more. Nothing less. ...
theblogprof - http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/

On 'Bruno,' MSNBC Gets the Message | NewsBusters.org
By Sarah Knoploh
But Polone maintained that movie goers "are going to think about the issues involved" and the movie "will promote civil rights." MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell gushed that he "was a huge fan of Sacha Baron Cohen," but ...
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2009-06-29T19:56:00.001-07:00

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Justices Rule in Firefighters Bias Case, Bid Farewell to Souter
The American Lawyer - USA
The Court said instead that the city's action was based on race and amounted to a "disparate treatment" violation of the same civil rights law. ...
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High court curves in conservative direction
USA Today - USA
... for people to bring civil rights claims, rejecting challenges by environmentalists and raising the standard for older workers alleging bias on the job. ...
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WH: Ruling Re-Interprets Civil Rights
Post Chronicle - USA
by Staff The US Supreme Court decision that federal civil rights law could be used to ban discrimination against whites re-interprets the law, ...
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Rev. Jackson On The Loss Of Michael
NPR - USA
Tell Me More, June 29, 2009 · Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has been acting as a spokesman for the family of late pop legend Michael Jackson, ...
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Of the Senate and Filibusters - 1964 Civil Rights Act
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
Today is an appropriate day to do, because on this day in 1964 the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights act was finally ended with a cloture vote. ...
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Hate Crimes Bill Would Federalize Criminal Law, Revive Double Jeopardy
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
Gail Heriot, a member of the US Civil Rights Commission, was one of two (out of six) witnesses testifying against the bill on June 25 before the Senate ...
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Education Secretary Duncan calls education 'civil rights issue'
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
By AP CHICAGO (AP) — US Education Secretary Arne Duncan is calling access to quality education "the civil rights issue of our generation. ...
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Civil Rights Attorney: We Must Not Ignore Torture
Talk Radio News Service - Washington,DC,USA
Kevin Zeese, an attorney and board member of Velvet Revolution, a Washington, DC based non-profit organization, describes torture as a "poison in our body ...
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Sotomayor Firefighter Ruling Reversed by High Court
Bloomberg - USA
Twenty firefighters -- 19 white and one Hispanic -- sued, saying they were victims of racial discrimination in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the ...
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Obama Hosts LGBT Pride Reception; Gays Aren't Yet Convinced
Atlantic Online - USA
Or even having a President use more confident language in asserting his belief that civil rights for all citizens are important. It's the pure shell-shocked ...
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SWAC Girl: June 29, 1964: GOP passes Civil Rights Bill
By SWAC Girl
Senator Byrd, a former Klansman whom Democrats still call "the conscience of the Senate", filibustered against the civil rights bill for fourteen straight hours before the final vote. Read more over at The Write Side of My Brain. ...
SWAC Girl - http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/

The Power: Amend 1964 Civil Rights Act To Include LGBT People ...
By AKAWilliam
This morning at 10, outside the Stonewall Inn, The Power's founder Jeffrey H. Campagna was joined by Congressman Jerrold Nadler, a representative of Senator.
AKA William - http://www.akawilliam.com/

Group to Announce Campaign for National LGBT Rights Agenda ...
By Andy
This morning, there's a press conference outside New York's historic Stonewall Inn by grassroots online group The Power announcing its LGBT Civil Rights campaign for full equality. At the presser, the group will present U.S. Congressman ...
-Towleroad News- [#gay] - http://www.towleroad.com/

The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : Leahy: Ricci Decision Weakens ...
By David Ingram
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which often has jurisdiction over civil rights issues, is warning that today's Ricci decision could have a negative impact on attempts to fight workplace discrimination. Sen.
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times - http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/

Blue Commonwealth:: Of the Senate and Filibusters - 1964 Civil ...
By teacherken
Today is an appropriate day to do, because on this day in 1964 the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights act was finally ended with a cloture vote. A bill that had first been introduced into the House after John F. Kennedy's June 12, ...
Blue Commonwealth - Recent Diaries - http://www.bluecommonwealth.com/

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2009-06-28T21:18:00.000-07:00

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Harmonious week for the Roberts court
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Dorf said the firefighters case was almost certain to highlight the court's deep divide on the issues of race, civil rights and equal opportunity. ...
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Sean Wilentz: Abe Lincoln, Politician
History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA
Thus Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement had to compel the southern wheeler-dealer Lyndon B. Johnson to support civil rights and voting ...
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FOXNews

Firefighters Ruling Expected Monday Could Impact Sotomayor ...
FOXNews - USA
The white firefighters say discrimination is discrimination no matter what color it takes, and therefore, the city did violate the Civil Rights Act in not ...
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CTV.ca

Canada Day party brings civil rights warning
CTV.ca - Canada
Canada Day celebrations in Victoria, BC, appear destined to create a bang that lasts beyond the singing of O Canada and the often rowdy fireworks show that ...
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G-20 security worries civil rights groups
United Press International - USA
PITTSBURGH, June 28 (UPI) -- Civil rights groups say they're worried security efforts for the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh will squelch free speech and ...
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Indian gay rights march calls to legalize gay sex
Washington Post - United States
"You cannot deny people their basic civil rights. Sex between people of the same gender has been illegal in India since a British colonial era law included ...
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Promotional Exam At Center Of Supreme Court Case
FireFighting News.com - USA
DeStefano argued that their civil rights were violated under Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment to ...
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Valley reflects on 40th anniversary of Stonewall riots
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
Gay civil rights is an issue that resonates in the Palm Springs valley, which has one of the largest gay communities, per capita, in the United States. ...
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Limited options US must be careful not to undermine Iranian ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
He invoked the nonviolent "bearing witness" philosophy of civil rights martyr Dr. Martin Luther King, who preached that the arc of the moral universe is ...
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40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans
New York Times - United States
By FRANK RICH LIKE all students caught up in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, I was riveted by the violent confrontations between the ...
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Revoked: The Power marks Pride with a Press Conference at Stonewal
By Daniel Clark Orey
If you are in New York, please join us for a press conference with Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Civil Rights. If you are in New York on Monday, join us at Stonewall to make ...
Revoked - http://revolked2.blogspot.com/

Gay Rights: From Immoral to Mundane to the Sublime | rainbowzine.com
CBS Sunday Morning features a segment on the Stonewall Riots and their impact on today's LGBT civil rights movement.
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ParentsFirst – UK Organization for Parents and Children « Parental ...
By mkg4583
In Best Interest of the Child, CPS, Child Custody, Child Support, Childrens Rights, Civil Rights, Divorce, Domestic Relations, Domestic Violence, Family Court Reform, Family Rights, Freedom, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, ...
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Firefighters Case Looms Large for Sotomayor -- Politics Daily
By Patricia Murphy
Frank Ricci and 19 other firefighters -- not all of whom were up for immediate promotion -- sued under the Civil Rights Act, arguing that the city based its decisions on race, not merit, when the law specifically says it is a violation ...
Politics Daily - http://www.politicsdaily.com/

The Lead
By Jim Naughton
Bayard Rustin's authority to speak on the convergence of gay rights and civil rights is indisputable. He helped build the civil rights movement and suffered for being a gay man at the same time. Rustin's 1986 speech, "The New Niggers ...
The Lead - http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/

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2009-06-27T19:23:00.001-07:00

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Our Civil Rights Movement
Malaysia Today - Malaysia
I am also convinced they will more fully appreciate that over the past three years we've been undergoing our very own civil rights movement. ...
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Supreme Court rules strip search of student illegal
Goshen Chronicle - USA
That the vote upheld Savannah Redding 's Civil rights is the correct decision.Wonderful to live in this great country of ours. " " The child should never ...
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New York Daily News

Let my two moms marry! On Stonewall anniversary, kids of gay ...
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
A soon-to-be senior at Skidmore College, Shain sees gay marriage as one of the biggest civil rights issues of her lifetime. She's living with her parents ...
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Episcopals commemorate civil rights champion
Durham News - NC,USA
BY FLO JOHNSTON, Correspondent The Durham Convocation of Episcopal Churches has announced an upcoming service to commemorate the life of the Rev. ...
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Examiner.com

Honor Michael Jackson's legacy of love and peace
Examiner.com - USA
The final section in my chapter on Respecting Civil Rights is called "Remember the Children." In that essay, I explain the responsibility of parents and ...
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The Line Between Civil Rights And Revolution
Atlantic Online - USA
It seems, from a distance, to be true that the Iranian protestors are motivated not by revolutionary ardor but by a demand for normalcy. ...
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The house of civil rights leaders Volma and Warneta Overton is for ...
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
The house at 1403 Springdale Road was home to Austin's civil rights history. Owned by Volma and Warneta Overton, the house, which has been designated a City ...
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Medicaid cut prompts inquiry
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
By Beth Musgrave - bmusgrave@herald-leader.com The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a civil rights investigation into Kentucky's ...
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Civil rights suit proceeds
Mankato Free Press - Mankato,MN,USA
By Dan Nienaber A former Mankato banker's claims that his civil rights were violated by a special agent with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety are ...
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Can the Voting Rights Act Survive Another Challenge?
Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
But Hebert, formerly an official of the Justice Department's voting section in the Civil Rights Division, acknowledges that his successes, until last week, ...
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Feds launch civil rights probe of Kentucky's Medicaid program
WKYT - Lexington Kentucky. Local and Breaking News, Sports, and Weather for Central and Eastern Kentucky.
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The Free Press, Mankato, MN - Civil rights suit proceeds
Published June 26, 2009 08:17 pm - A former Mankato banker's claims that his civil rights were violated by a special agent with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety are moving forward in federal court. Civil rights suit proceeds ...
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The Shotgun: Hotel room human rights
By Scott Carnegie
Those 2 things came about though civil unrest, the changes in law follow much later; same thing with the civil rights movement, same-sex rights, etc. Posted by: Scott Carnegie | 2009-06-27 3:29:06 PM ...
The Shotgun - http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/

Rangel/McKinney Call for Investigation for Mumia! - Assata Shakur ...
By nattyreb
Actions are being organized throughout the summer to support the campaign for a federal civil rights investigation, including at the upcoming NAACP convention in New York City, July 11-16. Organizers are focusing particularly on July 13 ...
Assata Shakur Speaks - Hands... - http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/

American Civil Liberties Union : U.S. Supreme Court Declares Strip ...
By mkg4583
In Best Interest of the Child, Civil Rights, Freedom, Liberty, children criminals, children legal status, children's behaviour on June 27, 2009 at 6:27 pm. Ruling In ACLU Case Is Vindication of Students' Constitutional Rights ...
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2009-06-26T19:46:00.001-07:00

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Question with the candidates: Is US response to Iran enough?
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
"As a nation, we must take a stronger position against the Iranian regime that is determined to rule its people with an iron fist, denying them civil rights ...
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The dissing of America's most significant Latina
Bakersfield Californian - Bakersfield,CA,USA
... of the United Farm Workers Union is the most significant role played by any Latina in the history of the civil rights movement in this country. ...
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The Stonewall Riots and the Battle for Gay Rights
The Takeaway - New York City,New York,USA
Also joining us is 29-year-old Jason Haas, a civil rights leader in the LGBT community. "Cops would come in and harass us and push us around and put us in ...
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Times Online

Stonewall anniversary: writers and TV presenters discuss the ...
Times Online - UK
Gay rights are civil rights, and any movement for political change needs an organisation that can lobby, inform, educate, protest. ...
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NAACP head tells black Baptists civil-rights struggle not over
Associated Baptist Press - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Jealous, the youngest president in the history of the 100-year-old civil-rights organization called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
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Today in Civil Rights History: Lawrence vs. Texas Vindicates Due ...
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the US Supreme Court's historic decision in Lawrence vs. Texas, in which the Court held that the Constitution protects ...
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Civil rights groups back federal legal challenge to California's ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Howard Mintz Gay rights organizations have thrown their support behind the latest legal challenge to Proposition 8, intervening in a federal court case ...
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Ireland grants rights to same-sex partnerships
Reuters - USA
"This is an historic civil rights reform that will resolve many immediate and pressing issues faced by lesbian and gay couples and the minister and the ...
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Former CEO of Miners Bank named in civil-rights suit filed by ...
Republican & Herald - Pottsville,PA,USA
Matta was named Thursday in a civil-rights suit filed in US District Court in Scranton by hundreds of juveniles jailed by Conahan's co-defendant, ...
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FBI opens civil rights probe into El Monte PD
Whittier Daily News - Whittier,CA,USA
"The inquiry is to determine whether or not the individual's civil rights were violated in any way." Television cameras recorded the chase, in which the car ...
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Baker City Herald | Baker County Oregon's News Leader - Memorial ...
Bruce Klunder, a 1954 Baker High School graduate, pastor and a memorialized participant in the civil rights movement, will be honored during a noon ceremony July 3 at the Baker County Courthouse. County Commissioner Tim Kerns will serve ...
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NewsChex - California News » Blog Archive » Civil rights groups ...
By Franklin
Civil rights groups back federal challenge to California's gay ... San Jose Mercury News Gay rights organizations have thrown their support behind the latest legal challenge to Proposition 8, intervening in a federal court case . ...
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The Power Is Featured As The Cover Story In The New York Blade ...
By jeffbhall
Imagine a federal law that would give all LGBT Americans full civil rights and ban discrimination against them. Sound too far-reaching, too aggressive? Such legislation has already been introduced—in 1974. More than three decades ago, ...
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The Mudflats » Diane Benson on Equal Rights and Ordinance 64
By akmuckraker
In 1945, Alaska passed civil rights legislation – first of its kind – 20 years before the rest of the nation. Many of the same arguments that you have heard were made in 1945 over racism. Some business owners and hotel operators felt ...
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2009-06-25T19:09:00.001-07:00

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Steel mill security guard files civil rights complaint against ...
Chesterton Tribune - IN, United States
A security guard who is accusing a Burns Harbor police officer of assaulting him has filed a civil rights complaint with the FBI and asked the Porter County ...
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Carrying the torch of Stonewall forward
Dallas Voice - Dallas,TX,USA
Stonewall did for us what all civil rights movements that utilize visible direct action activism did: It gave a voice to a voiceless people. ...
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Mike McKay: HIV Testing Day recognizes two rights issues
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
So how is this idea of "take the test, take control" related to the civil rights movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals? ...
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Testifying to the importance of hate crimes legislation
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA
I am Michael Lieberman, Washington Counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, and co-chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights hate crime task force. ...
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Lafourche civil-rights leaders' feud continues
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
By Raymond Legendre THIBODAUX — Amid an ongoing dispute between two of Lafourche Parish's preeminent civil-rights leaders, a Houma pastor is calling for the ...
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ACORN wins voter lawsuit
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... our poorest citizens," stated Jon Greenbaum, legal director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and co-counsel for plaintiffs. ...
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Jury rejects civil rights claim of Ore. man
kgw.com - Portland,OR,USA
The eight-person jury took a little more than an hour Wednesday to deny the claims of Cortez Jordan, who sought $1 million for civil rights violations. ...
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Stonewall At 40: Gay Rights Hits Middle Age [Opinion]
89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
To move ahead and make history, we must engage our straight allies, people who realize that a society with civil rights for some is not a civil society. ...
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Provision protecting minority voting rights is safe for now, but ...
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is considered by many scholars and practitioners of the law to be the single most important civil rights legislation in the ...
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STREET NAME CHANGED IN HONOR OF LOCAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, EDUCATOR
Pine Bluff Commercial - Pine Bluff,AR,USA
Friends, family, and community leaders talked about Henry Wilkins III's dedication to civil rights and education. Josetta Wilkins said she regularly talks ...
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Neda: A Civil Rights Struggle | Video Cafe
By scarce
The thought that what is happening in Iran is so much more than a mere election has struck many of us as self-evident. Would they show this ferocious courage simply for a fixed election? I don't think so. And others, much more learned ...
Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/

Federal Bureau of Investigation - The Memphis Division: Department ...
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department today announced that Carlton Moore, formerly an officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., to three counts of violating civil rights for ...
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Where is the line between civil rights and revolution ...
By mattsteinglass
Hamid Dabashi makes an interesting point in the NYT today (via Andrew Sullivan natch): that the Iranian students seem less like revolutionaries than like civil rights protestors. But I think much the same could have been said of the ...
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties ...
By Margaret Winter, National Prison Project
Federal civil rights litigation against officials who perpetrate or are complicit in prison rape serves a profoundly important purpose for the individual victim, but beyond that it vindicates the community's rights: Federal civil rights ...
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African American Book Reviews
By Bridget Cowlishaw, Ph.D.
Scholarship on the civil rights era has been shaped in significant ways by white southerners from religious families who witnessed the injustices of the Jim Crow system during childhood and subsequently published books that reflected ...
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Nightclub's Dress Code May Violate Civil Rights NPR
Nightclubs usually enforce dress codes — banning T-shirts, sneakers or hats. But a new entertainment district in Kansas City has established some pretty ...

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2009-06-24T19:15:00.000-07:00

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A Civil Rights Struggle
Atlantic Online - USA
I see the moment we are witnessing as a civil rights movement rather than a push to topple the regime. If Rosa Park was the American "mother of the civil ...
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Young civil rights activist named Elmhurst College trustee
Chicago Defender - IL, United States
He has also worked with prominent civil rights and nonprofit organizations including Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and the Chicago Urban ...
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Frank Kameny: A true pioneer
Windy City Times - Chicago,IL,USA
by Chuck Colbert Keen News Service The Black civil-rights movement had Martin Luther King, Jr. Women had Susan B. Anthony. And the gay-rights movement had ...
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Not So Inconsistent [Abigail Thernstrom]
National Review Online Blogs - New York,NY,USA
[revealing] unremitting and ingenious defiance of the Constitution," which had been compiled by federal courts, civil rights groups, and the US Commission ...
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MLB.com

MLB's Solomon to receive Horizon Award
MLB.com - USA
Among the programs that bear Jimmie Lee Solomon's stamp are the Urban Youth Academy and the Civil Rights Game. By Lisa Winston / MLB.com Jimmie Lee Solomon, ...
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Examiner.com

Restrictive gun laws violate civil rights
Examiner.com - USA
That essay was written by Temple University Law Professor David Kairys, who, interestingly enough, specializes in civil rights law, and is known for ...
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A victory for the Voting Rights Act
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Alustrous legacy of the civil rights movement has survived a challenge in the US Supreme Court. By an 8-1 vote, the court has preserved a requirement that ...
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Chipping away at voter rights
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
That's why the requirement has been referred to by law professors as one of the "crown jewels of the civil-rights movement." Foes of the Voting Rights Act ...
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Times have changed: Roberts leads a decision that dispenses with ...
World Magazine - Asheville,NC,USA
Obama: "The reference to Spock - are you referencing my ears?" Jake Tapper: "I would never make fun of your ears, sir." Readers asking about HuffPost ...
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Civil Rights history hits home with players
MLB.com - USA
Wearing throwback uniforms from 1964 -- the year the Civil Rights Act passed -- players viewed the scene from the top step of the teams' respective dugouts ...
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SayUncle » Round up of civil rights victories
Round up of civil rights victories. Cities' gun restrictions begin to topple: Since last June, when the US Supreme Court struck down key parts of the District of Columbia's gun-control ordinance, cities have seen the 20000 local gun ...
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U.S. Rep. Kucinich: Health Care A Civil Rights Issue - Talk Radio ...
By Staff
Kucinich: Health Care A Civil Rights Issue. Posted by Staff on June 24, 2009 |. U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.) criticizes the insurance industry for having making profits on Americans' backs and says that "this is a fundamental civil ...
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Armed and Safe: Restrictive gun laws violate civil rights
By 45superman
That essay was written by Temple University Law Professor David Kairys, who, interestingly enough, specializes in civil rights law, and is known for fighting racial discrimination. He is, presumably, an educated man, and an opponent of ...
Armed and Safe - http://armedandsafe.blogspot.com/

Comics: 'Green Lama' an early step in march for civil rights ...
By Robyn
Comics: 'Green Lama' an early step in march for civil rights. Wed, 2009-06-24 04:24 — Robyn. A lot of comics from the past are offensive to modern sensibilities, reflecting as they do the derogatory racial stereotypes prevalent at the ...
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The Civil Rights Movement… « My Weblog: THNQ
By omegetymon
The Civil Rights Movement… By omegetymon …THE WORLD'S, from the middle-east out. Is there ANY way to retrieve the news articles, written in Arabic or Hebrew, that describe what THEIR VIEW of what was happening in 'America' during the ...
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2009-06-23T19:38:00.001-07:00

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Court compromises on heart of Voting Rights Act
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
A key provision of the landmark civil rights legislation was preserved, but the Supreme Court showed 12000 political subdivisions, mostly in the South, ...
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Report: John Huey Buys 'Race' Film Option
New York Times - United States
... Mr. Huey has bought film rights to a Pulitzer-prize winning book, "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of the Nation. ...
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UN chief calls on Iran to respect civil rights
Xinhua - China
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday again called on the Iranian government to respect civil rights and find a ...
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WDTV

Clarksburg Woman Avoids Jail Time on Civil Rights Charge
WDTV - Bridgeport,WV,USA
A Clarksburg woman accused of violating a young African American girl's civil rights learns her fate today in Harrison County court. ...
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Comics: 'Green Lama' an early step in march for civil rights
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
But I also believe this early, baby step in the long march for civil rights deserves recognition. As the Green Lama would say, "Be American! ...
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John Kasich closes gap in Ohio governor race
Politico - Washington,DC,USA
The civil rights era of the 1960's was necessary because, post-Civil War, Democrats thwarted efforts of Republicans to grant blacks civil rights. ...
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Today in Civil Rights History: Bakke Decision Upholds Use of Race ...
Civilrights.org - Washington,DC,USA
He argued that the special admissions process violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ...
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Voting Rights Act Upheld, But Court Hints at Change
Washington Post - United States
Civil rights activists, braced for a defeat from a court increasingly skeptical of race-based government policies, said the outcome was the best they could ...
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Former SC trooper faces civil rights sentencing
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
He has pleaded guilty to violating Caridi's civil rights and faces up to 10 years in prison. But federal sentencing guidelines recommend a maximum sentence ...
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Supreme Court narrows but preserves Voting Rights Act
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Monday's decision, considered among the most important of the term, came as a surprise and a relief to civil rights advocates. "This is a Pyrrhic victory ...
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Election Law: Charles: Waiting for the Civil Rights Communty
By Rick Hasen
It is time for the civil rights community to step up. They have dodged a bullet with the Court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of section 5. But the constitutionality of section 5 hangs on a thin reed. ...
Election Law - http://electionlawblog.org/

Tips To Help You Pick Out A Civil Rights Lawyer | Legal Tips and ...
By admin
Civil rights are basic rights in which the government enforces a certain measure of protection. Civil rights include discrimination, physical safety, and the.
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Harry's Place » Are civil liberties only for nice people?
By Brett
On the Liberal-left, we even have campaigns to protect the civil rights of those convicted of crimes - even violent ones - but none of us seems concerned that the civil liberties of people who have not broken the law are being steadily ...
Harry's Place - http://www.hurryupharry.org/

ISS - VOICES: Voting rights protections still necessary
By Guest Blogger
Civil rights advocates and those on the side of democracy are letting out a sigh of relief today: the U.S. Supreme Court left intact the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a case involving a utility district in Austin, Texas, ...
Facing South - http://www.southernstudies.org/

Basic Rights Oregon » Blog Archive » Jeana Frazzini's Testimony in ...
By Alejandro
Chavez was also the first major civil rights leader to actively support gay and lesbian issues, speaking out on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the 1970s. The legacy of Cesar Chavez endures today. ...
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2009-06-22T19:40:00.001-07:00

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Examiner.com

Should Congress apologize for slavery on behalf of the Democratic ...
Examiner.com - USA
The 2006 documentary Emancipation Revelation Revolution, a Renaissance Women production, discusses the history of the civil rights struggle of African ...
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Portland Observer

Civil Rights Council Created
Portland Observer - Portland,OR,USA
Avakian said he's confident that the group "will be a key player in advancing civil rights in Oregon and fighting unlawful discrimination of all forms. ...
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Voice of America

US Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Voting Rights
Voice of America - USA
By Jim Malone The Voting Rights Act was passed by Congress at the height of the US civil rights movement in the 1960's and was designed to offer federal ...
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Civil Rights Commission asks why Obama Justice Dept. let thugs get ...
Examiner.com - USA
The US Commission on Civil Rights is demanding to know why the "Obama Justice Department took the unusual action last month of dismissing a default judgment ...
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Commentary: NAACP agenda still 'radical' after 100 years
CNN - USA
But we must go beyond the civil rights guaranteed in the Constitution and advocate for the human rights that will assure that America's promise is realized ...
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Supreme Court Rules Texas District Can Opt Out Of Civil Rights Act ...
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA
1 in Austin, Texas can opt out of a provision of the Civil Rights Act. Under the provision, 16 states that have been identified as having a history of ...
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Duran, Klausner Reappointed to Civil Rights Advisory Committee
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Klausner has served on the committee for more than two years, and said Friday he accepted reappointment because he has "a longtime interest in civil rights. ...
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Washington Post

Metro: People and Issues
Washington Post - United States
It took the civil rights movement (1950s and 1960s) to ensure that blacks actually were able to exercise their legal right to vote. ...
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Voting rights provision ruled unconstitutional
CNN - USA
Civil rights groups say Section 5 has proved to be an important tool to protect minority voters from local governments that could set unfair or ...
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Voting Rights For Our Time
Atlantic Online - USA
But over the years, the provision has come under fire as antiquated and cumbersome although civil-rights groups reflexively support its continued ...
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Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Supreme Court Surprises With Civil ...
By editor@truthdig.com
The near-unanimous narrow decision came as a surprise, with justices apparently retreating from earlier divisions that led some court watchers to predict the legislation's demise. - Supreme Court Surprises With Civil Rights Decision.
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Civil Rights Commission Asks Why Obama Justice Department Let Pro ...
By Hans Bader
Members of the NBPP were caught on film blocking access to the polls and physically and verbally intimidating voters. . . When the defendants did not respond and the court invited the Justice Department to file a default judgment, ...
OpenMarket.org - http://www.openmarket.org/

Spokane, Wash., officer indicted on federal civil rights charge ...
By Bureau News
The indictment contends Officer Karl Thompson deprived Otto Zehm of his civil rights and made a false statement to investigators. He was accused of repeatedly striking Zehm with a baton and Tasering him in a convenience store. ...
The Gaea News - http://blog.taragana.com/n/

Dave'sDailyDump: EXPAND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964!
By LiberalDemDave
EXPAND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964! The Power Online: sign the petition. why we fight, the suicide note: the heart wrenching response, from a brother named "steve": an educated mind is an open mind. we've been stagnant for 40 years. ...
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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG | Supreme Court Reaffirms Key Voting Rights Provision
By James Parks
Civil rights lawyers say the Texas utility district was recruited by conservative legal groups and lawmakers to file suit soon after the Voting Acts Right was renewed. Those groups then championed the suit as it wound its way to the ...
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2009-06-21T19:08:00.001-07:00

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Commentary: Rickey's part in civil rights shouldn't be overlooked
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA
By Marc Katz Branch Rickey was as much a part of Major League Baseball's Civil Rights Game in Cincinnati as Jackie Robinson. Rickey was the guy who hastened ...
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EU security plans threaten freedom, says rights expert
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
... EU plans on harmonising security measures, including the collection and storage of personal data, go ahead, according to a leading civil rights expert. ...
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Civil Rights Game festivities stir personal memories
Chicago Tribune - United States
As Major League Baseball celebrated its third annual Civil Rights Game in Cincinnati, a flood of memories returned as I recalled hearing the heartfelt ...
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TOWN OF BELMAR, NJ VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS FOR DISABLED.
Godseer - Prescott,AZ,USA
WITHIN THE TOWN OF BELMAR, NJ THERE ARE AT LEAST A DOZEN POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS THAT GRANT THE DISABLED EQUAL ACCESS TO PUBLIC RIGHTS OF ...
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'No Single LGBT Rights Leader' a Feature, Not a Bug
The Moderate Voice - USA
…why is nobody asking where the leadership for the gay community is? …why is it that the lack of leadership for one of the most important Civil Rights issue ...
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Former State Street Bridge renamed in honor of civil rights leader
Zanesville Times Recorder - Zanesville,OH,USA
By KATHY THOMPSON • Staff Writer • June 21, 2009 The bridge was dedicated to the famed civil rights leader Saturday morning just prior to the start of the ...
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Clinton praises Civil Rights Game honorees
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
By Dustin Dow • ddow@enquirer.com • June 20, 2009 Baseball helped usher an era of civil rights in the United States, former president Bill Clinton said ...
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Bosox's Dice-K to skip turn in the rotation
Detroit Free Press - United States
Civil rights game: The push for racial equality is far from over, in sports and in everyday life, former President Bill Clinton told a crowd at Major League ...
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Iran Civil Rights Demonstrators Rally in SLC
Fox 13 Now - Salt Lake City - Salt Lake City,Utah,USA
SALT LAKE CITY - Events in Tehran are reverberating around the globe, including Salt Lake City. Utahns gathered Saturday as part of a worldwide movement ...
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Sox ride homers to Civil Rights Game win
MLB.com - USA
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com CINCINNATI -- Years from now, the White Sox 10-8 victory over the Reds during Major League Baseball's third annual Civil Rights ...
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White Sox Cards: Harold At The Civil Rights Game
By White Sox Cards
Confessions of a Sports Junkie has a great post about yesterday's Civil Rights game between the White Sox and the Reds, complete with pictures of the awesome 1964 uniforms! Posted by White Sox Cards at 3:38 PM. Labels: Harold Baines ...
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Mo. measure would rename highway adopted by neo-Nazis after rabbi ...
By Maria Sudekum Fisher
June 18th, 2009 Miss. civil rights slayings to get historic markerPHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. ...
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Civil Rights For Injured Workers: to all the idiots that post ...
By drywallrocker
Civil Rights For Injured Workers. The injured worker news media. Sunday, June 21, 2009. to all the idiots that post nasty remarks on injured sites. To all those good union members that have yet to screwed by your unions just wait and ...
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Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas: STATEMENT BY CO ...
By Dr. Angela Valenzuela
STATEMENT BY CO-DIRECTORS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT ON THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE'S PROPOSAL TO END THE STATE EXIT EXAMINATION We congratulate the Joint Budget Committee on its proposal to end the state high school exit examination ...
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Canonical licences 'satanists' selling Ubuntu-esque t-shirts
By James Hall
Don't think a theme or lack of would count as an "erosion of our civil rights" as you're free to download them. Still think getting involved in something like religion when there's no need is asking for trouble. ...
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Civil Rights Game continues discussion | MLBcom News
The Gillette Civil Rights Game provided the final exclamation mark on a weekend that has officially arrived as the latest jewel event on the Major League ...

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2009-06-20T19:12:00.001-07:00

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Selig 'very proud' of Civil Rights Game
MLB.com - USA
By Mike Bauman / MLB.com CINCINNATI -- Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig indicated on Saturday that the Civil Rights Game has become a staple of the ...
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Civil rights group to hold rally in wake of Rock Hill police shooting
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Rock Hill,SC,USA
A civil rights group plans to hold a community "justice rally" in Rock Hill next week to address the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old robbery suspect by Rock ...
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Ozzie Guillen appreciates symbolism of Civil Rights Game
Chicago Tribune - United States
... throwback light blue uniforms he and his White Sox players and coaches wore Saturday night as part of the Civil Rights Game against the Cincinnati Reds. ...
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Gonzalez to DL, will have elbow surgery
MLB.com - USA
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com CINCINNATI -- As the Reds took batting practice before Saturday's Civil Rights Game against the White Sox, all shortstop Alex ...
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Mr. rights
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Fill in the blank with your favorite milestone of recent racial history in this country -- when Rosa Parks sat down on the bus, when the Civil Rights Act ...
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LGBT civil rights groups score another victory
People's Weekly World - USA
The change in this decision came this year under the Obama administration after LGBT civil rights groups began to build public pressure for having these ...
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Monterey County attorney reappointed to California civil rights panel
The Salinas Californian - Salinas,CA,USA
The US Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee, including Monterey County attorney Luis Alejo. ...
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Bill Clinton says civil rights struggle continues
SI.com - USA
Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aaron, boxing's Muhammad Ali and entertainer Bill Cosby were honored for their contributions to civil rights and ...
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Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader
New York Times - United States
A century later, Martin Luther King Jr. played that role in the civil rights movement. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem became the spokeswomen for the ...
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Cincinnati backdrop for Civil Rights fest
Anaheim Angels - USA
The Civil Rights Game will be played between the Reds and White Sox at Great American Ball Park. Not only will it provide a showcase for Cincinnati, ...
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Bill Clinton says civil rights struggle continues | InvestmentWatch
By Daniel
Yeah, Bill's right the civil rights fight goes on and thanks partly to him and mostly his political party it is now white Christians that need their civil.
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Grant Lawrence--Bodhi Thunder: Update--Chairperson of Miwok Tribe ...
By Grant Lawrence
We are the "legitimate" federally recognized California Valley Miwok Tribe and we are not being treated fairly, our civil rights are being trampled on by the Bureau, we want equal protection. We are a FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBE that ...
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The Centre Cannot Hold » 1964 – Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and ...
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner became martyrs to the Civil Rights Movement when they were lynched in Philedelphia, Mississippi. The three had travelled to the town to investigate the burning of a church which had ...
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NYT: Why The Gay Rights Movement Has No Leader | AKA William
By AKAWilliam
"The gay movement has always had a problem of achieving a dignity or a moral imperative that the black civil rights movement had, or the women's rights movement claimed," said Dudley Clendinen, who co-wrote the book "Out for Good: The ...
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Very, very enlightening article on guns and the Civil Rights movement
By Eugene V. Debs
From the pages of the left-liberal magazine The Nation -- shedding light on the little-discussed topic of the role of armed self-defense during the &qu.
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2009-06-19T19:19:00.001-07:00

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Luminaries discuss civil rights, baseball
MLB.com - USA
CINCINNATI -- Baseball's Civil Rights Game is one part celebration and one part reminder: There is reason to celebrate the game's role in the struggle for ...
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Distinguished panel discusses civil rights
MLB.com - USA
The Civil Rights Game itself is elevated in magnitude in this, its third year, featuring for the first time a regular-season game -- White Sox at Reds on ...
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Dye glad Civil Rights Game counts now
Chicago Tribune - United States
CINCINNATI -- Right fielder Jermaine Dye is glad the Civil Rights Game was switched to the regular season after playing in the event at the end of spring ...
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Full house hears panel discuss sports, civil rights
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
A packed house at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center listened to an all-star lineup of panelists discuss the civil rights movement, ...
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Probe: Yonkers Police Not Guilty of Civil Rights Violations
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV - New York City,New York,USA
City officials issued a statement Thursday afternoon which stated that no systemic civil rights violations or wrongdoings have been found by investigators. ...
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Civil Rights Wild Card — 6.19.09
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the Senate, 73-27. Actress Kathleen Turner is 55. In the news this morning: The jobless rate for the ...
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AL CALLOWAY SAYS: Environmental Justice should dominate civil ...
The South Florida Times - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
These groups are all aware that environmental justice (EJ) is the dominant civil rights issue of the 21st century. In South Florida, many spokespersons have ...
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Civil rights group blasts AG for lack of progress
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
Representatives from the Texas Civil Rights Project criticized Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday for his slow action against the scandal-ridden Texas ...
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Civil Rights Group Issues New Report On Hate Crimes
Tips-Q GLBT News - New York,NY,USA
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights has recently issued a 48-page report titled Confronting the New Faces of Hate: Hate Crimes in America 2009. ...
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Riverside resident named to civil rights panel
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
Karen Jo Lugo, 53, of Riverside, is among 18 people recently appointed by the US Commission on Civil Rights to its California Advisory Committee. ...
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Truth Wins Out - Civil Rights Commissioners Dissent from GOP's ...
By Michael Airhart
On June 16, six of eight commissioners for the Republican-controlled U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a letter (PDF) opposing Senate Bill 909, the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. ...
Truth Wins Out » Blog - http://www.truthwinsout.org/

Vital Signs: Civil Rights Commission to Obama Administration: Not ...
By Denny Hartford
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has now taken up the issue and sent a letter to Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, demanding an explanation. By a vote of 4-0 (with one member abstaining for ...
Vital Signs - http://vitalsignsblog.blogspot.com/

Miss. civil rights slayings to get historic marker | Black ...
Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. The marker.
Black Politics on the Web - http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/

Gay Rights Lawyers: Obama Administration Rebuffed Our Requests For ...
By Greg Sargent
You're obvious hatred of **** , especially gay men, which is demonstrated by your ongoing demonization of us, is exactly why we can not delay our demands for full civil rights. We need them right now. Your scapegoating of one group to ...
The Plum Line - http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/

dcat: Thoughts on Iran
By dcat
I have been spending a fair amount of my newspaper/internet time reading about the protests in Iran and what strikes me is the way that the press and photo/video journalism have been used in previous protests (civil rights movement as ...
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2009-06-18T19:16:00.001-07:00

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Editorial: Time for Obama to fulfill promises on gay rights
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
However, the president made it clear during his presidential campaign that he would be a strong advocate for gay and lesbian civil rights. ...
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Baseball linked with Freedom Center
MLB.com - USA
"Last summer when officials from Major League Baseball visited Cincinnati to evaluate us to be the host city for the Civil Rights Game, the Freedom Center ...
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US Civil Rights Commissioners Oppose Hate-Crimes Bill
CitizenLink - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
The Hate Crimes Prevention Act has gotten a thumbs-down from members of the US Commission on Civil Rights, in the form of a letter to Senate leaders saying ...
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Federal Civil Rights Commission Warns Hate Crimes Bill Poses ...
Lifesite - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, DC, June 18, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The US Commission on Civil Rights has now weighed in the hate crimes debate, ...
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Harmon: Cincinnati fitting for CRG
MLB.com - USA
Harmon was at the Reds' Hall of Fame on Wednesday morning as part of the celebration of the Civil Rights Game held Saturday at Great American Ball Park. ...
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Juror misconduct alleged in civil rights trial stemming from ...
Seattle Times - United States
A man who lost a civil-rights case against a Kent police officer who shot him in 2005 has asked for a new trial, claiming a juror — the wife of a King ...
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Star-filled lineup set for civil rights tribute
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) — Major League Baseball is fielding a star-filled lineup to spotlight the first regular-season Civil Rights Game. ...
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Miss. civil rights slayings to get historic marker
The Associated Press
(AP) — Mississippi officials say a historical marker can be placed on a state highway near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. ...
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Private Meeting Clears Path for Civil Rights Nominee
The BLT - Washington,DC,USA
Republican Senators are warming to the nomination of Thomas Perez to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, increasing the likelihood that the ...
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Sykes keeps pushing on civil rights era crimes
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Alvin Sykes' continuing quest on behalf of unsolved murders from the civil rights era will reach another milestone soon when he meets with Attorney General ...
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » MORE SCANDAL: U.S. Commission on ...
By Glenn Reynolds
MORE SCANDAL: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Demands Answers on Voter Intimidation Case Dismissal. "As was commented upon here at CONTENTIONS, and widely reported and remarked upon elsewhere, the Obama Justice Department took the ...
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Coast Guard launches Civil Rights Regional Detachments | Coast ...
By cgnews
WASHINGTON — The US Coast Guard's Office of Civil Rights announced Wednesday the launch of a centrally-managed, professional and full-time equal.
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U.S. Civil Rights Commission Opposes Federal Hate Crimes Bill on ...
By Hans Bader
The US Commission on Civil Rights has decided to oppose the federal hate-crimes bill. The Commission calls the bill a menace to civil liberties because.
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Black Americans being USED by the LEFT…Obama is the CHIEF OFFENDER ...
By Lee S. Gliddon, Jr.
To advance civil rights for blacks, Republicans started the NAACP on February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The first black head of the NAACP was black Republican James Weldon Johnson who became ...
Desert Conservative - http://www.desertconservative.com/

Pam's House Blend:: The Words The President (& Others) Won't Speak ...
By Autumn Sandeen
However, on the 30th of June we'll really know how serious the President is about transgender civil rights; the 30th of June is the last day that the Department of Justice can file an appeal to the Diane Schroer case. ...
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2009-06-17T19:17:00.001-07:00

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Casa Grande PD: No civil rights violation, and it won't happen again
Examiner.com - USA
We were there to stand up for the civil rights of our LGBT friends, just like the others. We cannot fly the Gay Pride flag "anywhere in the City of Casa ...
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Sheriff to meet with civil rights leader
KSWT-TV - Yuma,AZ,USA
AP - June 17, 2009 8:14 PM ET PHOENIX (AP) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office has announced the Sheriff will meet Friday with civil rights leader ...
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Supreme Court to wrap up term with key cases
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The last few decisions -- on issues including civil rights, student strip-searches and the role of race in the law -- will probably be closely watched. ...
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Commentary: Rigged or not, vote fractures Iran
CNN International - USA
Even beyond these sporadic or symbolic events, we have a far more sustained record of inborn and grassroots movements in Iran for human rights, civil rights ...
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Ex-MPD officer charged with civil rights violations
The Montgomery Herald - Montgomery,WV,USA
According to published reports, a former Montgomery police officer has been charged with two federal civil rights violations for his part in an alleged ...
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Civil Rights leaders say hate crimes are up; they claim media is ...
Free Speech Radio News - Berkeley,CA,USA
In the wake of three fatal shootings fueled by racial and religious hate, US Civil Rights leaders have issued a report that details what they call a ...
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UNC civil rights center director receives award
Daily Tar Heel - Chapel Hill,NC,USA
Technically, Julius Chambers is a retired lawyer, civil rights leader and educator. Even so, he still has a full case load at his law firm and at the UNC ...
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Hank Aaron, Muhammad Ali and Bill Cosby to be on-field together ...
MLB.com - USA
The game between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox is the first regular season Civil Rights Game after two pre-season exhibitions. ...
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Three to be honored with Beacon awards
MLB.com - USA
The third annual Civil Rights Game, which will be played by the Reds and White Sox on Saturday at Great American Ball Park, honors the efforts and struggles ...
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'Wanna Play?' offers fun for young fans
MLB.com - USA
By Tom Singer / MLB.com The annual Civil Rights Game -- the 2009 edition will be played Saturday night in Cincinnati -- observes and celebrates individuals ...
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phxsoul.com: Unite for Civil Rights Prayer Service and Breakfast ...
By phoenixblack
The Unite for Civil Rights Prayer Service and Breakfast featuring Rev. Al Sharpton will be held on June 19 at the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church gymnasium in Phoenix. You know breakfast is going to have that extra KICK if Rev....
phxsoul.com - http://www.phxsoul.com/blackweblogs/

Obama's Regifting of Gay Rights | The New Civil Rights Movement
By David Badash
Who has time to put together a plan for gay civil rights at the drop of a hat? Just like the White House threw us a bone by throwing The Advocate an interview with John Berry. (You remember: I can imagine the conversation in the West ...
The New Civil Rights Movement - http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/

Pasadena Man Appointed To Civil Rights Commission Advisory ...
By Administrator
Daily Newsmagazine and City Guide to Pasadena, California featuring News, Events, Restaurants, Real Estate, Shopping and Lifestyles.
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Black Scholars in America: Civil Rights Groups Seem to Like ...
By Staff
For years, the civil rights community has denounced the discriminatory business practices of financial industry players that have forced underserved borrowers to pay more for financial services while receiving less value and assuming ...
Black Scholars in America - http://blackscholarsinamerica.blogspot.com/

Citing Withheld Evidence, Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal Call for ...
By HansBennett
Citing the Supreme Court denial and several instances of withheld evidence, Abu-Jamal's international support network is now calling for a federal civil rights investigation into Abu-Jamal's case. The facts of the Abu-Jamal/Faulkner ...
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2009-06-16T19:25:00.001-07:00

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Man files civil rights lawsuit against MPD
KSTP.com - Saint Paul,MN,USA
A man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and its police department for allegedly violating his civil rights. Malcom Labon says he witnessed ...
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Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill
Examiner.com - USA
In the past, the possibility of reprosecutions was viewed as a vice, not a virtue, and civil-rights advocates and lawmakers alike have sometimes cited this ...
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AG Holder urges new hate crimes law
The Associated Press
The attorney general's call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has been a surge in white supremacist activity since the ...
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California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON , June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. ...
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Civil Rights Groups Applaud Financial Reform Effort
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
For years, the civil rights community has denounced the discriminatory business practices of financial industry players that have forced underserved ...
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Two Medford men sentenced in civil rights case
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
by Stephen Beaven, The Oregonian Two men have been sentenced to federal prison after burning the image of a cross and the letters KKK into the front lawn of ...
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The Associated Press

AG Holder urges new hate crimes law
The Associated Press
... committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable," Holder told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. ...
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Hate Crimes Rise as Immigration Debate Heats Up
Washington Post - United States
By Spencer S. Hsu US civil rights leaders today said an increase in hate crimes committed against Hispanics and people perceived to be immigrants in recent ...
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On Civil Liberties
Oregon Commentator - Eugene,OR,USA
Yet the 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about the right of people to bear arms and suppress the civil rights of others. Those committing crimes with the ...
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Report: white supremacist activity rising
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading civil rights coalition says there has been an increase in white supremacist activity since the election of the first ...
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The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : Holder Recommits DOJ to Civil ...
By Jeff Jeffrey
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said in a speech today that the "crown jewel" of the Justice Department -- the Civil Rights Division -- is on its way to regaining its luster. Speaking at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times - http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/

My History Is America's History at Publishing the Long Civil ...
By Sylvia Miller
As these commonalities of purpose come into focus, the connections among our LCRM project partners–the Center for Civil Rights (community organizers), the Southern Oral History Program (historians), the UNC Special Collections Library ...
Publishing the Long Civil Rights... - http://lcrm.unc.edu/

Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes ...
By Hans Bader
By contrast, four members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission opposed the federal hate-crimes bill in an April 29 letter, calling it a "menace to civil liberties," since its "most important effect" will be to circumvent double-jeopardy ...
OpenMarket.org - http://www.openmarket.org/

Canadian Human Rights Commission wants more censorship - Ezra Levant
Pesky civil rights -- like the right to speak the truth -- are a big reason why police don't have a 100% hate speech conviction rate like the CHRC does. So in its new report, the CHRC suggests that the defence of truth be removed from ...
Ezra Levant - http://ezralevant.com/

Feminist Majority Foundation - Choices Campus Blog: Prioritizing ...
By Bonnie
After the past ten days of celebrating pride in the nation's capital, it appears that the LGBTQ community is back to reality: living under an administration that has been silent and stagnant on our civil rights. ...
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2009-06-05T19:08:00.001-07:00

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Just when I was forgetting Jeff Sessions' record as a prosecutor....
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
His nomination to be a US District Court judge was troubled from the start because of controversy surrounding his prosecution of civil rights activists for ...
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Parker: The civil rights challenge of our time
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
But he and I have very different ideas about what that "core civil rights challenge" is. For Sullivan it's "gay rights." For me it's school choice. ...
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Coalition files federal civil rights complaint over Central ...
Finance and Commerce - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The PBHRC sent a letter to Dwight Sinks, the FTA's Regional Civil Rights Officer in Chicago, on May 20 initiating its complaint. ...
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CAIR Welcomes AG Holder's Statement on Muslim Civil Rights
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental ...
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MY TURN | Economic Hardship Breeds Human Rights Issues
Kitsap Sun - WA, United States
What probably is not as obvious is the fact that human and civil rights generally experience equally hard times in depressed economic conditions. ...
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Civil Rights photo exhibit opens
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
June 5, 2009 (WLS) -- An exhibit of photos of the Civil Rights movement is now open in Chicago. One hundred fifty black and white photos make up the "Road ...
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Group files civil rights complaint in regard to light-rail development
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
A group representing residents and businesses along University Avenue in St. Paul has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Metropolitan ...
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Birmingham Plans Civil Rights Trail
Leisure Group Travel - Willowbrook,IL,USA
Birmingham, Ala., known for some major civil rights landmarks, has plans to spend $1 million to create a Civil Rights Trail to include lesser known but ...
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Civil rights belong to every citizen, gays included
Buffalo News - NY, United States
By Sylvia Rhue I am an African-American who participated in the civil rights movement. I learned the basics directly from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I ...
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Opponents file civil rights complaint against Central Corridor
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
by Laura Yuen, Minnesota Public Radio, The Federal Transportation Administration's office of civil rights is being asked to look into claims that the ...
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Snowflakes in Hell » Blog Archive » Stepping Up: Civil Rights ...
By Sebastian
In light of this week's ruling from the Seventh Circuit, and the scramble to get the Chicago gun ban case to the Supreme Court, I've decided to step up and make a donation to the NRA Civil Rights Defend Fund. ...
Snowflakes in Hell - http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/08/01/quote-of-the-day-69/trackback/

Glass City Jungle » Blog Archive » Brunner wants support of ...
By LisaRenee
"It's time to for the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act to be part of our civil rights framework for all U.S. citizens,'' Brunner said. "Congress has the power to break down one of the last vestiges of discrimination left in ...
Glass City Jungle - http://glasscityjungle.com/wordpress/

Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Help to initiate a civil rights ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Friends of Leonard Peltier)
Write to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he immediately initiate a civil rights investigation addressing a 27-year history of prosecutorial and judicial violations of Mumia Abu-Jamal's constitutional and international rights ...
Blogspot: Friends of Peltier - http://freepeltiernow.blogspot.com/

Educational Equality: The New Civil Rights Challenge « Black is ...
By eshowoman
Educational Equality: The New Civil Rights Challenge. June 5, 2009 – 5:51 pm; Posted in African American, America, Barack Obama, Black American, Black News, Black People, Children, Identity politics, Race Realtions, Racism, education, ...
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Guns, Gays and Abortion. | The New Civil Rights Movement
in Asides, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Healthcare, Legal Issues, Marriage. Guns, Gays and Abortion. "Americans increasingly see gay relationships as just another part of the fabric of connections that make up their communities. ...
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National Ledger Upcoming Supreme Court Cases and Civil Rights
An eclectic mix of original analysis and coverage of news, pop culture, politics, the crime beat, the DC Journal, sports, entertainment, breaking weather ...

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2009-06-04T19:09:00.001-07:00

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Andrew Strane claimed police violated his civil rights during a ...
Petoskey News-Review - Petoskey,MI,USA
By Steve Zucker News-Review Staff Writer The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit an Emmet County man ...
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Gay rights, Bigfoot, and The Lochness Monster
Daily Kos - Berkeley,CA,USA
by satchel robinson Yesterday was a big day in the fight for the equal protection of human and civil rights for all persons in the United States. ...
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Groups file complaint saying Central Corridor would violate civil ...
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
By Dave Orrick A coalition of neighborhood and minority-rights groups has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the planned Central Corridor light ...
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Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
Scott Saul: Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history. Scott Saul: Several new books on Martin Luther ...
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Four Darien girls' sports violate Title IX rules
Darien Times - Darien,CT,USA
In its findings regarding competitions, the Office of Civil Rights said that out of 32 varsity teams, 28 used "facilities that were equivalent in quality. ...
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Civil Rights and Corporate Leaders Join Commission on Climate Change
Washington Informer - Washington DC,USA
Participate in activities to educate and engage Black youth and students, the media, voters, civil rights groups, Black churches, and Black elected ...
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No agreement on Sonia Sotomayor timeline
Politico - Washington,DC,USA
He has been to the WH more times than other civil rights leaders. As a Republican, I have supported President Obama since he announced. ...
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LULAC's state convention opens today in Dallas
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
LULAC is the country's largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization. One issue to be discussed is Irving's Criminal Alien Program. ...
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Margaret A. Bengs: Emotions, false analogies fuel anti-Prop. 8 fire
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
By Margaret A. Bengs A troubling aspect of the same-sex marriage debate is the rampant misuse of terminology traditionally associated with the civil rights ...
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Hot Topic: The Price Of Diplomacy
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
The president's decision to not make human rights abuses a central theme of his visit has prompted criticism from civil rights advocates, who talk, ...
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Groups file complaint saying Central Corridor would violate civil ...
By By Dave Orrick dorrick@pioneerpress.com
A coalition of neighborhood and minority-rights groups has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the planned Central Corridor light rail line linking St. Paul and Minneapolis. Backers of the project — including different ...
News - http://www.twincities.com/news/

New energy saving light bulbs at Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights ...
WTOC.com, the Southeast News Leader, news, weather and sports for Savannah, Georgia, the Coastal Empire and South Carolina Low Country.
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties ...
By Caroline Cincotta, Immigrants' Rights Project
Civil rights and immigration groups, including the ACLU, had urged Holder to vacate and reconsider Mukasey's decision that dramatically limited the right of immigrants to obtain a fair hearing on whether they are legally eligible to ...
Blog of Rights: Official Blog... - http://blog.aclu.org/?/archives/36-A-Day-of-Firsts.html

HRC | Human Rights Campaign Lauds Introduction of Reuniting ...
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today lauded the introduction of the Reuniting Families Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. ...
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Jihad Watch: Attorney General issues statement on protecting ...
By Robert
"The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. ...
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2009-06-03T19:07:00.001-07:00

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Civil rights office investigates complaints by special needs advocates
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
"When children with disabilities are denied their educational, legal and civil rights in public schools, it translates into denying equal opportunity to ...
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New Hampshire legalizes gay marriage
Reuters - USA
Supporters often compare it to the path blazed by the civil rights movement. New Hampshire's bill says religious organizations, associations or societies ...
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Same-sex marriage becomes law in NH
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
Same sex marriage is a civil rights issue and should NOT be left for the voters to decide. Look what happened in California where Mormons from all over the ...
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US Civil Rights Commission to Hold Public Briefing on Health Care ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The US Commission on Civil Rights will examine the reasons for persistent gaps between the health status of minorities and non-minorities in the United ...
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Conservative justice and the Ricci firefighter's case
Chicago Defender - IL, United States
The 1964 Civil Rights Act (Title VII, section 7h) prohibited the use of tests that would be used intentionally to discriminate, or tests that would be used ...
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Federal jury rules Kent officer did not violate civil rights of ...
Seattle Times - United States
A federal jury today has ruled a Kent police officer did not violate the civil rights of a man he shot and wounded during the investigation into a stolen ...
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Human and Civil Rights Exhibition Opens June 16 at National ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Documented Rights presents records that give voice to the national struggle for human and civil rights. It features more than 80 documents, facsimiles, ...
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Town Topics

"The Struggle Is Still With Us": Civil Rights Focus of HSP Panel
Town Topics - Princeton,NJ,USA
Reflecting on Princeton's civil rights history during a panel discussion organized by the Historical Society of Princeton (HSP), four longtime residents who ...
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Christian Science Monitor

Tianamen's legacy of boldness
Christian Science Monitor - USA
"This looks like another democracy movement, a civil rights movement," says Mr. Li. "This rights-protection democracy is growing stronger and stronger. ...
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When help is trumped by civil rights
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
He said, "It is a conundrum – there is the potential that a service can be made available, but we can't break a person's civil rights. ...
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D-Day: Six States For Civil Rights
By dday
Six States For Civil Rights. This hit a snag a couple weeks back, but New Hampshire passed the bill extending marriage equality to same-sex couples, and the Governor will sign it. Good news. Iowa, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, ...
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Why We Need a Human Rights Commission
By erin.evans
The US Commission on Civil Rights has been on the wrong side of every major human rights issue in recent years. We should scrap it and start over.
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Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties ...
By Jennifer Carnig, NYCLU
Marriage is a basic civil rights issue. Family is a basic civil rights issue. The right to take care of our children is a basic civil rights issue. That's why the New York State Assembly – Democrats and Republicans alike – voted to ...
Blog of Rights: Official Blog... - http://blog.aclu.org/

HRC | New Hampshire Becomes Sixth State to Recognize Marriage for ...
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today applauded the state legislature and Gov. John Lynch for passing legislation to recognize ...
HRC Latest News - http://www.hrc.org/

Why Dick Cheney may be Obama's best ally on gay marriage - John ...
By John Parisella
While Cheney speaks of equality, Olsen and Boies speak of civil rights. The discourse is starting to transcend party lines and even the ideological divide so typical of the American culture wars of years past. The vernacular is starting ...
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Google Alert - "civil rights"

2009-06-02T19:13:00.001-07:00

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Advancing civil rights by overturning old laws
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
Local whites threatened violence to any black who tried to vote, and in Mississippi three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. ...
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President Obama rumored to appear at Civil Rights Game in Cincinnati
Examiner.com - USA
AP Photo/Nick Ut It is rumored that President Obama may be throwing out the first pitch at the Civil Rights Game, being played between the Cincinnati Reds ...
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Giving Judge Sotomayor a fair hearing
Examiner.com - USA
Neither should we allow Judge Sotomayor to be criticized for her membership in an organization that supports Hispanic civil rights issues. ...
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Reader Response | The gay marriage debate continues
Examiner.com - USA
Blacks and Hispanics fought for their civil rights. It's offensive to me as a hispanic man that a gay person would think that their behavior is equal to my ...
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'Gospel Hill' opens up Hollywood Black Film Festival
Baltimore Sun - United States
The movie is set during the Civil Rights era, where the church, choir and negro spirituals are part of the empowerment movement. "Woke Up This Morning With ...
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Rights forum focuses on Wilhelm case
Charlevoix Courier - Charlevoix,MI,USA
By Benjamin Gohs Courier Editor A public forum billed as a discussion on local law enforcement and civil rights focused mainly on the Austin Wilhelm ...
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Appeals court upholds dismissal of civil rights lawsuit
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY An appellate court on Monday upheld a federal judge's dismissal of a civil-rights lawsuit filed after an Ontario boy fatally shot ...
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Seeking Justice in Civil Rights Cold Cases - Black Voices Blogs
By Paul Shepard
VEntertainment, News, and Sports Blogs from Black Voices.
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Lake County Civil Rights Violations Lawyer - Care2 News Network
By Civil C.
Lake County Civil Rights Violations Lawyer. ... Lake County Civil Rights Violations Lawyer. Business (tags: criminal, defense, attorney, lawyer ) Civil - 20 minutes ago - albertwysocki.com. Lake County Civil Rights Violations Lawyer ...
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Obama Justice Department Protects Racist, Anti-Semitic Hate Group ...
By Hans Bader
(The New Black Panther Party, which attacks what it refers to as "bloodsucking Jews," is recognized as a racist, antisemitic hate group even by liberal civil-rights groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center). ...
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Rhymes With Right - Gay Groups Announce Intent To Violate First ...
By Greg
When you publish names and addresses of individuals who do so and encourage "uncomfortable talks" (read that harassment), then you are engaged in a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of those petitioners. ...
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We Don't Need "Gay" Rights - We Need "American" Rights! : Gay News ...
This is a civil rights issue! We are Americans and need the rest of the world to know that we will not rest until we have equal rights. We need red, white and blue! We don't want gay rights, they are equal rights - American rights! ...
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Google Alert - "civil rights"

2009-06-01T20:56:00.001-07:00

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Police officer won't testify in Jude's civil rights suit
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
A Milwaukee police officer has refused to answer questions under oath for Frank Jude's civil rights lawsuit against the city, triggering questions by police ...
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Suit alleges civil rights violations by Metro Police
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
By Steve Green (contact) Family members of a man shot and killed in 2007 by a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer have filed a civil rights ...
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Civil Rights Museum Golf Tournament
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
That worked out quite well for the organizers of the Civil Rights Museum Golf Tournament. This afternoon, more than 100 people hit the links at the 6th ...
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Handel defiant after feds reject voter screening
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement that spawned the Voting Rights Act, said the system of citizenship checks was "an attempt to take us back to another ...
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Progress slow since '99 civil rights hearing
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Elsie Meeks of Interior became the first Native American to serve on the US Commission on Civil Rights at a time area race relations stewed. ...
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Sotomayor's Law Clerks Praise Her in Letter
Washington Post - United States
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act makes it illegal for an employer to hire, fire, or promote workers based on race or skin color. ...
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Cheney vs. Obama, but...
Politico - Washington,DC,USA
(Aug 2007) --Gay rights movement is somewhat like civil rights movement. (Aug 2007) --Let each denominations decide on recognizing gay marriage. ...
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Community members debate the future civil rights dept
Minnesota Spokesman Recorder - Minneapolis,MN,USA
On top of that, another $180000 would need to be trimmed from the civil rights department's 2009 budget. Rybak characterized the CIU as a "duplication of ...
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NY exhibit on gay rights hits amid marriage debate
Reuters - USA
... was a shocking development at the time: homosexual men and women coming out of the closet to demonstrate for their civil rights, often at great risk. ...
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Civil rights violations in US
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Aradhna I draw your attention to a miscarriage of justice and ongoing civil rights abuses in the US, as described by the international human rights ...
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Fox News During The Civil Rights Movement | Prose Before Hos
By Political Ironing
A trip through time as Fox News evaluates the Civil Rights Movement.
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California Ripple Effect: Student Civil Rights are Safe!
By George Simpson
Student Civil Rights are Safe! It's a story that got lost in the onslaught of news last year about Prop 8, but it was really indicative of how low the anti-LGBT industry will stoop. They went after schoolchildren. ...
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Bus trip to civil rights landmarks encourages Cleveland teens ...
By TD Staff
It was seeing the seemingly endless line of young men, in their caps and neatly pressed gowns, marching toward the Morehouse College campus for graduation.
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DownWithTyranny!: Dick Cheney-- The New Champion Of Gay Rights?
By DownWithTyranny
Now, if Cheney wants to get serious about lending a hand to gay civil rights, he couldn't do better than starting with a book edited by Mitchell Gold called Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and ...
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The race-based GOP - THE WEEK
The strategy was born in 1964, when GOP standard bearer Barry Goldwater campaigned against the Civil Rights Act. In his landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson, Goldwater carried five states in the Deep South. Richard Nixon took note, ...
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Google Alert - "civil rights"

2009-05-31T22:09:00.001-07:00

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Sotomayor's decision on firefighters may be overruled by Supreme Court
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
The high court is thought to be divided on the case, which pits two provisions of the Civil Rights Act against each other. On the one hand, the act says no ...
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How Left-Wing Zealots Are Violating Our Civil Rights
FOXNews - USA
Of course, the left will tell you that banning gay marriage is a civil rights issue, but that will be decided by the courts. However, those who oppose gay ...
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a Passionate but Civil Activist
Washington Post - United States
She advocated -- publicly, aggressively -- for inclusion and expanded civil rights, yet always worked within the framework of traditional levers and ...
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China silences human rights lawyers as Tiananmen date looms
Times Online - UK
Chinese authorities effectively disbarred some of the country's leading civil rights lawyers yesterday, dealing a blow to a group than has done more to hold ...
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Gary NAACP chapter lauds strides in media, civil rights
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
By Lisa deneal, Post-Tribune correspondent GARY -- Calling the NAACP an organization that keeps going in the fight for civil rights and equal justice, ...
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Kamala Harris: On civil rights heroes
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
And it must have been in law school when I made the obvious connection between civil rights and public safety. I noticed when we file a criminal complaint, ...
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Shout First, Ask Questions Later: School Choice - The New Civil ...
By Kris
Today this black Democrat says the new civil-rights struggle is about the quality of instruction in public schools, and that to receive a decent education African-Americans need school choice. He wants the president's help. ...
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Citizen Rider: Cycling is a Civil Right
By cafiend
Obviously our civil rights position is not as dire as that of African Americans in the 1950s and '60s. But the motorist bigots do injure and kill cyclists and engage in hate speech against us. We are viewed monolithically as bike riders ...
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China News: China Human Rights Lawyers Effectively Disbarred ahead ...
Jane Macartney reports for the Times Online: Chinese authorities effectively disbarred some of the country's leading civil rights lawyers yesterday, dealing.
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Ex-Republican touted by state Dems for Nassau seat (Spin Cycle ...
By Dan Janison
NOS Description: Other Civil Rights Litigants Attorneys Teresa Butler Plaintiff Louis D Stober , Jr [COR LD NTC] Law Offices of Louis D Stober, Jr, LLC 350 Old Country Road, Suite 205. Garden City , NY 11530. USA 516-742-6546 ...
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Pearl Cleage Leaves Her Mark on West Philadelphi: Handprints in ...
Her father's role as a prominent minister and Civil Rights activist coupled with her mother's academic pursuits opened Pearl to a world of possibilities. Like the characters in her books, she is not one to shy away from a challenge or ...
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Pam Spaulding Black Gay and ReclaimingCivil Rights
Whites don't want to have the difficult conversation and chance being labeled racist for bringing it up, blacks who oppose equality for LGBTs toss out the ...

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Google Alert - "civil rights"

2009-05-30T22:56:00.001-07:00

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A reflection on Judge Sotomayor and the Civil Rights movement
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
For me, as someone who has done civil rights work with the Hispanic community nearly forty years, and for many civil rights veterans, her ascendancy capped ...
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Thousands rally in California's heartland in support of gay marriage
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Also, they wanted to pay "symbolic respect" to 1960s civil rights marches in places like Selma, Ala. She said the point of the rally, marked by lively ...
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Loveland artist donates time to sculpt '60s civil rights icon
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
In September, the students took a six-day trip to Alabama and Tennessee to study the civil rights movement. Thorpe said they came away from the trip with ...
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Dallas' first black judge reviews quest for justice
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The behind-the-scenes look at the civil rights movement in Texas is a story familiar to many in the city's black community. ...
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Sheriff Questions Motives of Probes
Washington Post - United States
Robert N. Driscoll, a District-based lawyer for Maricopa County who served as a civil rights official at the Justice Department early in the George W. Bush ...
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Parrallels: Civil Rights and Gay Rights : Gay News from Gay Agenda ...
Paying tribute to the 1965 Civil Rights marches in Selma, Alabama, hundreds of same-sex couples are marching across conservative farm towns in Central California in the latest demonstration for marriage equality calling for an end to ...
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White Civil Rights » Do the Jews Own Hollywood and the Media?
White Civil Rights : The Website for Europeans and Americans Wherever They May Live. May 31, 2009. Do the Jews Own Hollywood and the Media? Filed under: Civil Rights. — @ 3:28 am. Dees Illustration. 'Zionist Jews do own and control ...
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Let Freedom Sing DVD Review: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights ...
This documentary follows the music and events of the Civil Rights Movement with historic footage, interviews, and the songs themselves.
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Trade Jim News » Gay marriage marchers pay homage to civil rights ...
By admin
(AP) — Hundreds of same-sex couples are marching through dusty California farm towns in the state's conservative center to kick off the latest front in the battle over gay marriage. Paying homage to the 1965 civil rights marches in ...
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ReligiousLeft.us: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would support LGBT ...
By Tom
Jesse Jackson called "the teacher of the Civil Rights Movement". Dr. King called him "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world". We know him as Rev. James Lawson, the lionized and profoundly respected Civil Rights ...
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