Campaign for High School Equity Calls for Strong Accountability in Federal ...
MarketWatch (press release)February 29, 2012
The bill strips away important civil rights protections in the federal law designed to close achievement gaps and to graduate more students ready for college and careers. The Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE), a coalition of leading civil rights...more »
Bayard Rustin: the architect of the March on Washington you may have never ...
Newsworks.orgFebruary 29, 2012
Now, the Chester County Historical Society is celebrating that native son, Bayard Rustin. As you walk down the picturesque streets of West Chester today, it's hard to believe the town once was the site of its own civil rights lunch counter protest.more »
Letter: The Contraceptive Controversy
Virginia Connection NewspapersFebruary 29, 2012
Contraceptives play an important role in women's health and religious liberty does not extend that far. Religious liberty does not allow religious groups the freedom not to follow rules or laws that have compelling benefits to society.more »
SPEAK ENGLISH
CNN (blog)February 29, 2012
It isn't just speaking American English (not the King's version)... It is also the fact that we do not consider ourselves all Americans... We are segragated more than we were before the civil rights act... Now we are Hispanic American's, ...more »
Gay rights takes center stage at LC City Council
KPLC-TVFebruary 29, 2012
"This will ensure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have full federally equality and civil rights protections at the federal level," said Noble. Noble said he's received support all along the way and believes it's time for change.more »
State Indian tribes may regain autonomy if legislature acts
Chinook ObserverFebruary 29, 2012
Despite various initiatives throughout the years to give sovereignty back, this legislation would bridge the gap between the shortfalls of current law, advocates say. In 1953 Congress passed Public Law 280, a federal act, which presented some states ...more »
Oppose City of San Francisco's Cooperation with FBI and ICE Racial or ...
Fight Back! NewspaperFebruary 29, 2012
Portrayed in the press as heroic “gangbusters,” the FBI relentlessly pursued the objective of destabilizing the labor and civil rights movements. Many hundreds of FBI informants and agents were deployed to sabotage labor organizing and the mass ...more »
Civil Rights challenges current generation to be a movement for change
WRBLFebruary 28, 2012
The keynote speaker was civil rights attorney Fred Gray who says when he started practicing law in the 1950s he had one goal in mind. "When I decided that I was going to become a lawyer, return to Alabama, and destroy everything segregated that I could ...more »
Can foreigners sue international corporations in US courts?
Christian Science MonitorFebruary 28, 2012
A 223-year-old law says foreigners can file lawsuits in American courts for alleged violations of international law. But whether they can sue corporations remains a question for the Supreme Court. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 28, ...more »
State Indian tribes may regain autonomy if Legislature acts
Port Townsend LeaderFebruary 28, 2012
By Raechel Dawson WNPA Olympia News Bureau You don't have to watch Disney's version of a glorified Pocahontas to know the long history of turbulence between Native Americans and the American government. But steps to give back tribal leaders control of ...more »
MLK legacy
Washington PostFebruary 28, 2012
Juanita Abernathy, civil rights activist, widow of Rev. Ralph David Abernathy: "We were testing the economic system in the United States of America that had never been tested before. We were bringing to Washington, poor whites, poor blacks, Native...more »
NYPD's Covert Monitoring Of Muslim Students Sparks Sweeping Indignation At NYU
NYU LocalFebruary 28, 2012
Iqbal, a Texas native of Pakistani descent, expressed dismay at how his faith could potentially threaten his civil rights as an American citizen. “I'm an American before I'ma Pakistani. I felt that I had to prove [my identity as an American] just ...more »
Human Rights Victims Seek Remedy At High Court
NPRFebruary 28, 2012
Human rights are front and center at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday in two cases testing how American law intersects with international law. At issue in both cases is whether foreign nationals in the United States can sue corporations or other ...more »
The Knight Times Online : The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Hypocrites
my.hsj.orgFebruary 28, 2012
Everybody, unless they're of Native American descent, has an ancestor that migrated here from some other country. It isn't our place to decide who can come live here when most of us wouldn't even be considered “native-born” if our family hadn't done ...more »
Building on a dream
Culpeper Star ExponentFebruary 28, 2012
“The memorial had to provide the opportunity to share Dr. King's passion, his conviction and his commitment to America and the American dream,” said Jackson about the slain Civil Rights activist and married father of four.more »
