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4 Apr 2016, 9:30 am
Second, national security crises have always provoked overreaching; we are unlikely to immunize ourselves from that problem. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 4:40 am by SHG
He was counsel to the NAACP, and certainly had a significant sensitivity to the concerns of the defense, but that’s not the same thing. [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 10:00 am by Dan Ernst
Excessive use of deadly force by police officers is under intense scrutiny from the national media, policymakers, and social activist groups across the country. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Joan Quigley, an attorney and journalist, will present Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital in the Washington History Seminar om Monday, March 14, 2016, 4:00pm - 5:30pm in the 6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom, of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC:In January 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, was refused service at a cafeteria a few blocks from the White House. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 12:15 pm
Everyone from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance to the National Women’s Law Center to Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights organization, have filed briefs raising important and diverse topics. [read post]
26 Feb 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
 Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, himself a past president of the Chicago NAACP, met with President Roosevelt to obtain his approval. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” Du Bois at Atlanta University in 1909 In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in New York by a coalition of white liberals and black leaders. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In actuality, while Parks was indeed a seamstress, she was also one of the first women in Montgomery to join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and served as its secretary. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 6:20 am by Jim Sedor
National: Report Links Violence, Tyranny and CorruptionUSA Today – Oren Dorell | Published: 1/26/2016 Transparency International published its annual survey measuring how much corruption is perceived to exist in the public sector. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 1:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
Plaintiffs did the latter, advocating for a change in the law, using the iconography of the national NORML organization. [read post]
22 Dec 2015, 2:50 pm by Eugene Volokh
” 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]
27 Nov 2015, 9:39 am by Ronald Collins
The Brown decision took place outside the context of a threat to national security. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 11:52 am by Eugene Volokh
Bearing in mind the interspersed surges of ethnic, racial, and religious conflict that from time to time mar our national history, the constitutional lessons to be learned from the circumstances of this case are both timeless and markedly seasonable. [read post]
21 Oct 2015, 6:43 am by SHG
“Too many Americans, particularly low-income communities and communities of color, are being torn apart by our overly punitive justice system,” said Cornell Brooks, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
The Wall Street Journal recently featured on its front page a widely-noted analysis showing how the costs of police misconduct claims have “soared” in recent years in the nation’s largest cities. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 7:40 am
The NAACP and Ralph Nader have joined with libertarians and others in seeking to end economic development takings. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 12:30 pm
  The U.S. incarcerates more people — in absolute numbers and per capita — than any nation in the world, including the far more populous China, which rates second, and Russia, which rates third. [read post]