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Saturday, November 7 at 9:30am - Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Right...
Hilton Washington Towers
Wednesday, May 14 at 5:30pm
As part of the 2010 population count, the Census Bureau is planning to hire more than one million temporary workers nationwide. The initiative is intended to ensure that the hardest-to-count populations – including communities of color, children, persons with disabilities, and people who speak a ...
FBI Report Finds Hate Crime at Highest Level since 2001 Following a slight drop in 2007, the number of reported hate crimes in United States rose in 2008, according to latest figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
"Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx" is an honest, heartfelt, and deeply moving story that follows the lives of an extended family. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc conducted extensive research and interviews with Lourdes, her daughter Jessica, daughter-in-law Coco, and ...
Each year, tens of thousands of people enter the United States seeking refuge from poverty, war, political or religious persecution, or human rights abuses. Among the most vulnerable of these immigrants are children who enter the country without a parent...
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has become harmfully politicized and has strayed from its mission to protect the civil rights of Americans...
Yesterday, a federal judge ruled in favor of Hurricane Katrina victims who claimed much of the worst flood damage was a result of negligence by the Army Corps of Engineers, an important victory for many of those impacted by the storm. The case was the first to find the government responsible for ...
Civil rights and progressive organizations, including the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the AFL-CIO, and the Center for Community Change, have joined the Economic Policy Institute in calling attention to the urgent need to address the...
Here are a few interesting civil rights related items: Civil rights groups are pushing the Obama administration to address the job crisis - The New York Times Editorial: Congress should fully fund the Legal Services Corp, which provides legal services to low-income people - The Washington P...
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the confirmation of President Obama's first nominee to the federal courts, Judge David Hamilton, who was nominated eight months ago for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
"The Revolt of the Cockroach People" is a fictionalized semi-autobiographical account of Oscar Zeta Acosta's involvement in the Chicano anti-war protest of the Vietnam War in 1970. The novel also covers a variety of conflicts between the protagonist, Buffalo Zeta Brown, an attorney with his o...
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Confirm Judge David Hamilton Without Delay
Source: www.civilrights.org
Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to confirm U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit nominee David Hamilton without further delay.
A new William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) study finds that the foreclosure crisis has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities – and that the recession has made it worse. ...
Enacting legislation that would prevent employers from discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a top priority for the Obama administration, according to Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights...
The popular image of a typical union member in the United States has been of a middle-age White man working in a factory. While that may have been true a quarter century ago, it is far from accurate today, as a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two separate cases to determine whether sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole for non-homicide crimes violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Sullivan v...
