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2 Jul 2014, 11:48 am
This landmark law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, and gender. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:13 am
Letter to Attorney General Holder Signatories: American Civil Liberties Union Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) Brennan Center for Justice Center for Digital Democracy Center for Democracy & Technology Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights Center for National Security Studies The Constitution Project Constitutional Alliance Consumer Action Consumer Federation of America Consumer Watchdog Council on American-Islamic Relations Council for Responsible Genetics Cyber Privacy… [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 7:41 am
Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared at the American Constitution Society’s national convention with her former high school classmate, Columbia law professor (and former director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund) Theodore M. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 11:37 am
Jersey City ranks 32nd in the nation according to the report “Underwater America” completed by a team of urban planners and sociologists from numerous academic institutions. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 4:00 am
Amicus briefs in support of HUD’s motion have been filed jointly by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Consumer Law Center, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and jointly by the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Poverty & Race Research Action… [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 7:42 am
It would give, he proclaimed, Congress “the power to muzzle” such diverse groups and individuals as the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Michael Moore and Dinesh D’Souza (a well-known conservative who recently pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws), the Anti-Defamation League, and the NAACP. [read post]
28 May 2014, 3:56 pm
Oliver Brown fue un personaje secundario, un nombre más entre un grupo de casi doscientos reclamantes que habían sido seleccionados para litigar por la NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), una organización creada en 1909 para promover los derechos de los negros. [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:08 am
To the contrary, the NAACP and other progressive groups opposed it in Congress – and for a very good reason. [read post]
18 May 2014, 12:30 am
Irwin Miller of the National Council of Churches, who prodded, pressured, and persuaded members of Congress and the administration to support the bill. [read post]
12 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Over the course of 2006, Joyner and McSurely repeatedly took pro-Nifong stances that contradicted longstanding positions of the national NAACP; their (and Barber’s) silence about the rigged photo array was particularly outrageous given past NAACP work on the question.Barber himself traveled to Duke Chapel as Nifong’s case imploded, and delivered a sermon widely interpreted as attacking the character of the lacrosse players. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:05 pm
“First Amendment protects Internet search results: N.Y. judge” [Alison Frankel, Reuters] Wisconsin + other states too: “Last week, the enlightened citizens of Shorewood, Whitefish Bay and several other communities voted to repeal the freedom of the press and of the free speech rights of organizations ranging from the NAACP to the National Rifle Association. [read post]
1 May 2014, 10:48 am
Players include the NAACP, Planned Parenthood and Service Employees International Union. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 6:31 pm
” An important First Circuit decision, NAACP, Boston Chapter v. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:27 am
" Speakers were Gary Bledsoe of the Texas NAACP, Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Norman Reimer of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 11:36 am
In Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 (Oxford University Press), Carle has written a paradigm-shifting study of the struggle for civil rights in the United States by moving the lens to focus on organizations that flourished during the period 1880-1915, before the heyday of the NAACP and the National Urban League. [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 7:48 am
[Many thanks to Lael Weinberger, University of Chicago, for culling the following legal history sessions from the program of this week’s annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.]Crossing Professional Borders in America, 1890-2000Friday, April 11, 20149:00am - 10:30amAfter immigrants to America cross the physical border, they encounter a series of other borders that need to be crossed as they make their way in U.S. society. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 9:30 am
Congress authorized a national initiative by passing The Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-19). [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 2:13 pm
In the United States, the Supreme Court recognized the relationship between anonymity and freedom of speech and association in NAACP v. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 10:06 am
Senate as well as the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and has argued two civil rights cases on voting rights before the Supreme Court." [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 11:32 am
The ACLU, representing the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the NAACP of Maricopa County, is currently challenging Arizona's version of this ban in court. [read post]
