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28 Nov 2016, 1:01 pm
First, consider setting up recurring donations to organizations that fight for social justice, including: NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trevor Project for LGBT Youth, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and National Immigration Law Center. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 12:28 pm
His 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship was quashed by the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee following allegations that Sessions referred to the NAACP and other civil rights groups as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 9:38 am
In light of the current state of our nation, please consider donating to the following organizations by clicking on the links below: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Association of Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Thank you for doing your part to keep this country a safe place for all. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 2:33 pm
The issue arose when the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency tasked with addressing unfair labor practices by private employers, initiated a proceeding against SW General, which operates an ambulance service in Arizona. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 12:17 pm
For example, read the amicus brief filed by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. in the AT&T Mobility LLC v. [read post]
2 Nov 2016, 5:37 am
[JURIST] The North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [official website] filed a federal lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Monday challenging North Carolina's sudden cancellation of voter registrations across three counties. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 4:40 am
Fuente: National Public Radio [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 3:53 am
The nation owes all of those officers, as well as those who are still on patrol today, an enormous debt of gratitude. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 4:36 am
In a New York Times obituary, Richard Severo and William McDonald detail the career of pioneering civil rights attorney Jack Greenberg, “a lawyer who became one of the nation’s most effective champions of the civil rights struggle, leading the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. for 23 years and using the law as a weapon in its fight for racial justice before the United States Supreme Court,” who died on October 12 at the age of 91. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 3:48 am
" See their analysis.The academics discovered these undisclosed police shootings by using the media-analysis methodology pioneered by the Guardian and Washington Post in their national compilations of police shootings. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 4:37 am
” Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that Duane Buck’s counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund litigation director Christina Swarns, is the one of “fewer than half a dozen black women who’ve argued cases” before the Supreme Court “since 1999. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 8:30 am
” Among other things, that provision covers marks that a “substantial composite of the referenced group” perceives as disparaging a religion, nation, ethnic group, belief system and the like. [read post]
24 Sep 2016, 6:08 am
William Barber II, President of the North Carolina NAACP, is certainly positioned well to address what is happening in Charlotte following the killing of Keith Lamont Scott. [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 10:22 am
This movement is supported by a wide variety of national groups, including EFF, the ACLU, Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, Demand Progress, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, NAACP, National Network of Arab American Communities, Restore the Fourth, South Asian Americans Leading Together, and the Tenth Amendment Center. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 2:28 pm
The Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [tcomplaint] Wednesday against the state of Alabama, alleging that the at-large election format for state appellate judges and justices is racially discriminatory [AL.com report]. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 11:38 am
”National Association of Consumer Advocates “The widespread suppression of consumer finance claims not only denies remedies for millions of American consumers and encourages ongoing risky conduct, it also stunts the necessary development of consumer protection laws. [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 1:01 am
As a corporate director, he broke the color barrier in the Nation’s executive suites. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 11:07 am
Ifill is the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of respondents in Fisher v. [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 6:18 am
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [official website] challenged the practice as being a restriction upon the First Amendment guarantee of free speech. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 5:09 am
The national opposition to charters from the NAACP and Black Lives Matter is strengthening the position of those at the local levels who might otherwise fold under pressures to expand charters. [read post]
