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14 Nov 2019, 12:33 pm
We all want a legal system that is fair and provides equal treatment of rich and poor. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 2:00 pm
Of course, King was the ultimate disruptor, from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Poor People’s Campaign, and while he could work with politicians, his confrontational tactics never yielded to conventional politics. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 1:01 am
” She wrote editorials under the pseudonym “Iola,” condemning violence against blacks, disfranchisement, poor schools, and the failure of black people to fight for their rights. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 7:12 am
It also marks the culmination of a quarter-century long campaign by the ACLU to end HIV segregation throughout the nation. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 4:49 am
When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, he was turning his focus from civil rights to economic rights, particularly the Poor People’s Campaign. [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 6:42 am
The only campaign finance enforcement under Mississippi law involves disclosure. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 2:31 pm
Many of these states (though not all) are former slave states, such as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 10:36 am
More than a dozen states have passed measures requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls and the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a campaign to challenge them all, asserting that they’re discriminatory because many minorities are too poor or too ignorant to get a valid ID. [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 5:40 am
Despite their political popularity, sales tax holidays are based on poor tax policy and distract policymakers and taxpayers from real, permanent, and economically beneficial tax reform. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 8:08 am
The report lists management problems, such as underqualified staff, poor documentation, and inadequate data controls. [read post]
14 May 2014, 9:27 am
He was just 24 when he was beaten to death at the CCA prison where he worked in Adams County, Mississippi. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:00 am
Newly identified payments in recent FEC filings show people involved in organizing the protests on January 6 received even larger sums from Trump’s 2020 campaign than previously known. [read post]
4 Aug 2022, 8:15 am
Here, I will explain why it is wrong to think that capitalism will make people obsolete, but I will make clear that that is for even more cynical reasons than the understandably worried people to whom I am responding might imagine.I am using as my jumping off point some promising work by Professor Hilary Escajeda, who recently began her academic career at Mississippi College School of Law. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm
Recall he launched his first presidential campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, a place notorious for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, and gave a speech about states' rights: "I believe in states' rights.... [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 2:23 pm
Recall he launched his first presidential campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, a place notorious for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, and gave a speech about states' rights: "I believe in states' rights.... [read post]
15 May 2014, 9:45 am
It's been 50 years since Freedom Summer -- when civil rights activists from around the country converged on Mississippi for a massive voter registration campaign. [read post]
26 May 2021, 12:26 pm
Supreme Court announced that it would consider a case challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortion starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
Capitol that led to five deaths and injuries to hundreds of people. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
I met with many people barely surviving on Skid Row in Los Angeles, I witnessed a San Francisco police officer telling a group of homeless people to move on but having no answer when asked where they could move to, I heard how thousands of poor people get minor infraction notices which seem to be intentionally designed to quickly explode into unpayable debt, incarceration, and the replenishment of municipal coffers, I saw sewage filled yards in states where… [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:00 am
Supreme Court ruled poor people accused of serious crimes were entitled to lawyers paid for by the government. [read post]
