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Equal Justice Society Percy Sutton, attorney for Malcolm X, dies at 89 - washingtonpost.com http://bit.ly/7t42Ae
Equal Justice Society UC Hastings Names Frank H. Wu New Chancellor and Dean http://bit.ly/83RrsI
Equal Justice Society Friend of Ward Connerly appointed by President Obama to help run the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the nation's largest provider of civil legal aid for the poor. Sharon Browne is an attorney from a far-right legal organization that has a history of ideological opposition to legal-aid work.
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TPMMuckraker Sharon Browne: December 2009
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In a video posted to YouTube this week, two co-workers - one white and one black - tried out the webcam face-tracking software on an HP MediaSmart computer. It is supposed to follow users as they move, but it fails to recognize Desi, a black man.
Equal Justice Society Oren Sellstrom of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area is quoted in New America Media report on data from the Small Business Association indicating that businesses of color are being shutout of stimulus loans.
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New America Media is a nationwide association of over 700 ethnic media organizations representing the development of a more inclusive journalism. Founded in 1996 by Pacific News Service, New America Media ...
Equal Justice Society San Jose Mercury News reports that Facebook released the first ever study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14012942
The Asian Law Caucus yesterday announced that it has selected former TIME reporter and filmmaker Ling Woo Liu as the Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education (http://fredkorematsu.org)...
EJS has throughout the fall joined many other organizations in supporting ACORN against attacks from the Right and also supported the lawsuit challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the organization. The court agreed. ...
Equal Justice Society House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional - NYTimes.com "The federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community organizing group Acorn, a federal court ruled Friday, saying that the House violated the Constitution when it passed a resolution barring the group from receiving federal dollars." http://bit.ly/5nMeaE
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The federal government must continue to provide grant money to the national community organizing group, a federal judge ruled Friday in Brooklyn.
The Equal Justice Society is working to deepen awareness of unconscious bias through the use of storytelling in television and movies (read more about our related activities)...
The Equal Justice Society has extended the deadline to accept applications for its 2010-2011 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship, named after the first African American woman to serve on the federal bench...
Equal Justice Society We extended the applications deadline for our 2010-2011 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship. Now due Jan. 11.
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The Equal Justice Society has extended the deadline to accept applications for its 2010-2011 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship, named after
