Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating Walter Scott’s civil rights by shooting the fleeing black man five times — a sudden shift after insisting for two years he had gunned down Scott in self-defense.
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This statement demonstrates his thoughts, or lack thereof, on so many issues connected to race, discrimination, and governance.
How Fear of Deportation Puts Stress on Families – The Atlantic
This is what democracy looks like. “The turnout in the Dutch elections was astonishing: about 82 percent, among the highest in decades.”
The Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, where black civil rights leaders once defiantly sat at a segregated lunch counter that wouldn’t serve them, soon will celebrate the culture it once shunned by housing a soul food restaurant with live music.
Restaurant entrepreneur Tom Morales announced the project Wednesday inside the unfinished building at an unveiling. Soulful songs and powerful remarks about the building’s history echoed through the largely emptied structure lined with caution tape.
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Standford Law Review examined sample of notable cases in civil rights arena, in an attempt to illuminate Justice Gorsurch judicial philosophy, namely proclivity for restraint.
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Calling it a reflection of the “larger American experience,” a home that has been witness to slavery, the Civil War and the civil rights era has been opened to the public in Tallahassee.State officials on Saturday swung open the doors to The Grove, a state-owned mansion that was once the residence to Gov. LeRoy Collins. Secretary of State Ken Detzner was joined at a ribbon-cutting by members of the extended Collins family.State officials on Saturday swung open the doors to The Grove, a state-owned mansion that was once the residence to Gov. LeRoy Collins. Secretary of State Ken Detzner was joined at a ribbon-cutting by members of the extended Collins family.
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A rebellious civil rights lawyer who was sentenced to a decade behind bars for helping a notorious Egyptian terrorist communicate with followers from his U.S. jail cell has died of cancer, three years after her release from prison.
Lynne F. Stewart, who had an unorthodox career representing small-time criminals and radicals alike before losing her law license over her dealings with the terrorist, Omar Abdel-Rahman, died Tuesday at her Brooklyn home, said her husband, Ralph Poynter. She was 77 and had recently suffered strokes.
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Ben Carson, the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on Monday referred to slaves brought to the United States against their will as “immigrants,” drawing quick condemnation from civil rights groups who cast his remarks as offensive.It was Carson’s first address to the staff at HUD. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate last week. Follow the link below for more details:
A new civil rights case has been filed against Apple Inc. in Maryland’s District Court, Montgomery. The two Plaintiffs in this case are Deandre Simmons and Darius Green from the State of Maryland. The two are identified in the lawsuit as being “African American/Black citizens.” They’re suing Apple for being subjected to racial profiling at an Apple Store in Maryland.
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Gavin Grimm, the transgender high school student who is suing his local school board for not allowing him to use the male bathroom, has had his case kicked back to a lower court by the Supreme Court.In canceling the arguments, scheduled for March 28, the Supreme Court also threw out an earlier appeals court ruling that stated the Gloucester County school board likely violated civil rights law by denying Grimm access to its male bathroom, according to Bloomberg. As a result, the lower court will now need to decide whether Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in schools, applies to Grimm’s case.
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The first black female Lord-Lieutenant said her civil rights activist father would be “very proud” of her.American-born Peaches Golding OBE, 63, has been chosen to become the Queen’s new representative in Bristol.She was born in North Carolina and is the daughter of Dr Charles Brady Hauser, a teacher who in 1947 mounted a civil rights protest by refusing to sit at the back of a bus in North Carolina.
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These leaders — Black, Latina, Asian, Arab, Native American — in varied fields, broke both gender and racial barriers as they made history. From Maya Angelou to Monifa Bandele, click the link below to see 34 most celebrated Women of Color in the history of modern day America:
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