Since 1983, the Equal Rights Center (ERC) has fought to advance civil rights and end discrimination.
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We bring all of today’s civil rights issues to you!
www.equalrightscenter.org
United Way #: 9397
Combined Federal Campaign #: 59434
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Tuesday, April 28 at 9:00am
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Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has agreed to pay $2.73 million, the largest monetary payment ever obtained for this sort of case, to settle a federal case alleging he targeted and discriminated against blacks, Latinos, and families with children in the rental of apartments he owns.
What has been most startli...ng however, has been the lack of reaction from the NBA. "If there was ever an issue that should strike a chord of protest, this is it," says sportswriter Dan Wetzel.Read More
What has been most startli...ng however, has been the lack of reaction from the NBA. "If there was ever an issue that should strike a chord of protest, this is it," says sportswriter Dan Wetzel.Read More
Source: sports.yahoo.com
Why is no one complaining about Donald Sterling's latest embarrassment? For the NBA, ignorance is always bliss. - National Basketball Association news
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"No matter how much education you get and how much success you achieve, if you grew up in the barrio, if you grew up in the 'hood, you will always have a little ghetto in you," joked comedian Ernie G. His message however is not meant to discourage, but to show that college and the ghetto can coexist.
With one in five La...tino teens dropping out of high school, Ernie was asked to be the spokesperson for the Hispanic College Fund. He currently tours offering laughs and encouragement to high school students considering college.Read More
With one in five La...tino teens dropping out of high school, Ernie was asked to be the spokesperson for the Hispanic College Fund. He currently tours offering laughs and encouragement to high school students considering college.Read More
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Los Angeles comedian Ernie G has a message for first-generation college-bound students in Washington.
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“If we want to be a global leader in combating H.I.V./AIDS, we need to act like it,” President Obama said. “We talk about reducing the stigma of this disease, yet we’ve treated a visitor living with it as a threat.” Obama made these statements last Friday after announcing the end of a 22-year ban on travel to the Unit...ed States by both visiting tourists and immigrants who had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.Read More
Source: www.nytimes.com
Fulfilling a campaign promise, the president moved to end a 22-year-long restriction he said was “rooted in fear rather than fact.”
The Equal Rights Center Watch the ERC's Senior Project Coordinator Sharon Moore testify in support of Washington D.C.'s “Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009.” Scroll forward to 03:03:40 to hear her three minute testimony.
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This past Wednesday, Rody Alvarado Peña was granted political asylum in the U.S., after fleeing her abusive husband in Guatemala. With this decision, the Obama administration has taken a major step toward clarifying a murky area of asylum law and defining the legal grounds on which battered and sexually abused women i...n foreign countries can seek protection here.
Peña, whose case has been open for 14 years, since 1995, says she hopes the outcome means that other abused women will receive quicker decisions from the courts.Read More
Peña, whose case has been open for 14 years, since 1995, says she hopes the outcome means that other abused women will receive quicker decisions from the courts.Read More
Source: www.nytimes.com
In a closely watched case, the Obama administration has endorsed asylum for a Guatemalan woman fleeing abuse.
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"The civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is open for business," declared newly confirmed Thomas Perez, the U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights. A report earlier this year had documented the replacement of career civil rights lawyers in the DoJ with conservative Republicans during... the Bush administration, but Perez has promised to end that.
In line with Perez' affirmation, DoJ filed two complaints and reached two positive resolutions this past month in regards to housing discrimination. The cases addressed discrimination based on disability, familial status, and race.Read More
In line with Perez' affirmation, DoJ filed two complaints and reached two positive resolutions this past month in regards to housing discrimination. The cases addressed discrimination based on disability, familial status, and race.Read More
Source: www.latimes.com
Assistant Atty. Gen. Thomas Perez, center, with Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, left, and Andre Martin, with the IRS, spoke Friday at an Asian Pacific American civil rights conference in Los Angeles. (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press / June 12, 2008)
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This Monday, November 2nd, Sharon Moore, the ERC’s Senior Project Coordinator, will be testifying as a public witness before the D.C. City Council’s Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary in a hearing on Bill 18-482, the “Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009.”
The hearing continues... at 9:30am in the 5th Floor Council Chambers of the John A. Wilson Building located at 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Make sure to support Sharon and the ERC by tuning in to watch the hearing at http://www.dccouncil.us/watchhearinglive!Read More
The hearing continues... at 9:30am in the 5th Floor Council Chambers of the John A. Wilson Building located at 1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW. Make sure to support Sharon and the ERC by tuning in to watch the hearing at http://www.dccouncil.us/watchhearinglive!Read More
Source: www.dccouncil.us
Viewers can watch legislative hearings in which the Council addresses day-to-day issues affecting District residents and visitors. OCT TV-13 also airs committee review hearings that focus on human services, such as health care, safety, and trash and snow removal.
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What is your responsibility when witnessing an act of discrimination, a hate crime, or any individual being victimized by another?
This is the question that has been asked after the alleged gang rape and beating of a 15 year old girl in Richmond, California this past Saturday. Investigators say there were as many as 10 ...participants in her raping, and up to 20 onlookers who watched or took pictures - none of whom reported the crime to police.Read More
This is the question that has been asked after the alleged gang rape and beating of a 15 year old girl in Richmond, California this past Saturday. Investigators say there were as many as 10 ...participants in her raping, and up to 20 onlookers who watched or took pictures - none of whom reported the crime to police.Read More
Source: www.cnn.com
For more than two hours on a dark Saturday night, as many as 20 people watched or took part as a 15-year-old California girl was allegedly gang raped and beaten outside a high school homecoming dance, authorities said.
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President Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act today, making it a federal crime to assault someone based upon their sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Equal Rights Center Executive Director Donald L. Kahl affirms, “Although this country has made great s...trides to protect civil rights, hate groups have continued to grow by 50% since 2000, and horrific hate crimes—like the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum this year—still occur. People with disabilities, women, and the GLBT community encounter many forms of discrimination daily and the protections of this Act bring a fundamental right—the right to be safe—to several vulnerable communities.”Read More
Source: www.equalrightscenter.org
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28, 2009 – Today President Obama signed The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, extending federal civil rights protections by making it a federal ...
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William J. Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, has spoken out against recent initiatives to give local law enforcement agencies the powers of federal immigration (ICE) agents. Bratton affirms, "Keeping America's neighborhoods safe requires our police forces to have the trust and help of everyone in ou...r communities... Yet every day our effectiveness is diminished because immigrants living and working in our communities are afraid to have any contact with the police. A person reporting a crime should never fear being deported."
Bratton is voicing these concerns in response to Homeland Security's announcement that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in the controversial law enforcement program.Read More
Bratton is voicing these concerns in response to Homeland Security's announcement that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in the controversial law enforcement program.Read More
Source: www.latimes.com
On March 12, Juan Garcia, a 53-year-old homeless man, was brutally murdered in an alley off 9th and Alvarado streets in the Westlake District, just west of downtown Los Angeles. At first, the police were stumped; there were no known witnesses and few clues. ...
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A historic hate crimes bill, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act , has been cleared by the Senate and is now awaiting President Obama's signature. The measure, if signed by Obama, will extend the current definition of federal hate crimes -- which covers attacks motivated by race, color, r...eligion or national origin -- to include those based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is named for Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was murdered in 1998, and Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck in Texas in 1998.Read More
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is named for Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student who was murdered in 1998, and Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death behind a pickup truck in Texas in 1998.Read More
Senate passes hate crimes bill that would extend protections to the GLBT community, women, and peopl
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
The Senate cleared a historic hate crimes bill Thursday for President Obama's signature, approving new federal penalties for attacks on gay men and lesbians.
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Under President Obama's administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has announced that HUD's core housing programs are open to all, including the GLBT community.
Secretary Shaun Donovan stated, "The evidence is clear that some are denied the opportunity to make housing choices in our natio...n based on who they are and that must end... President Obama and I are determined that a qualified individual and family will not be denied housing choice based on sexual orientation or gender identity."Read More
Secretary Shaun Donovan stated, "The evidence is clear that some are denied the opportunity to make housing choices in our natio...n based on who they are and that must end... President Obama and I are determined that a qualified individual and family will not be denied housing choice based on sexual orientation or gender identity."Read More
Source: portal.hud.gov
WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced a series of proposals to ensure that HUD's core housing programs are open to all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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In a recent civil rights victory, Judge William Alsup has ordered the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to send benefit notices to blind and partially sighted people in Braille or on CDs that can be converted to speech. His judgement will benifit about 3 million blind and partially sighted people nationwide wh...o receive Social Security benefits.
Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind, said, "Blind people across the country have been trying for years to get SSA to send notices in a format we can read, and up until this ruling, we have been resoundingly ignored."Read More
Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind, said, "Blind people across the country have been trying for years to get SSA to send notices in a format we can read, and up until this ruling, we have been resoundingly ignored."Read More
Source: cbs5.com
The judge wrote, "(The) Social Security Administration has not provided meaningful access for its ... programs to all blind and visually impaired individuals as required" by the U.S. Rehabilitation Act.
The Equal Rights Center This Wednesday and Thursday, October 21st and 22nd, watch CNN's special, "Latino in America." Witness the evolution of a country as Latinos change America, and in return, America changes Latinos. Watch the preview at the link below.
Source: www.cnn.com
Witness the evolution of a country as Latinos change America, and in return, America changes Latinos.
