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Record Bee
March 24, 2018
That tendency was on display this week in the U.S. Supreme Court as California Attorney General Xavier Becerra personally defended a state law ... “As a private, nonprofit organization,” one California clinic operator told the Washington Post, “we don't want to be compelled to, in essence, advertise for theÃâà...
kplr11.com
March 24, 2018
The trip was sponsored by the Archway (MO) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated, an international African American women's service organization. Lauren Nash Ming helped coordinate the activity. “The girls learned a lot about some of the constraints we had to face as African Americans. They were able toÃâà...
Android Central
March 24, 2018
Does the CLOUD act make it easier for foreign nations to access my U.S.-based data? Yes. The CLOUD act removes many of the obstacles currently in place when another country wants your data stored on a Google server inside the United States. This is where civil rights organizations and GoogleÃâà...
Civilrights.org
March 24, 2018
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For moreÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 24, 2018
A Michigan civil rights organization says a large white cross that's been in Jackson County for nearly 70 years should be removed because it's on state-owned land. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists has received a complaint from a resident about the cross on Sackrider Hill. The associationÃâà...
Civilrights.org
March 23, 2018
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For moreÃâà...
HuffPost
March 23, 2018
Wray has received immense backlash from Asian-American civil rights organizations for his comments about “the China threat.” ... had asked the FBI director about the “counterintelligence risk posed to U.S. national security from Chinese students, particularly those in advanced programs in science andÃâà...
CALmatters
March 22, 2018
That tendency was on display this week in the U.S. Supreme Court as California Attorney General Xavier Becerra personally defended a state law ... “As a private, nonprofit organization,” one California clinic operator told the Washington Post, “we don't want to be compelled to, in essence, advertise for theÃâà...
Civilrights.org
March 22, 2018
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For moreÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 5, 2018
Lewis and Giovanni both became well-known civil rights activists. Lewis is a ... "They were determined given the circumstances of segregation at the time, to give us a first-class education. I remember that. ... In reality it was a civil rights institute, a place to learn about initiatives of the movement. "We were onÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 5, 2018
Civil rights organizations and Young's political opponents were outraged. "It is mind-bending to suggest that personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany's Jews could have stopped the totalitarian onslaught of Nazi Germany when the armies of Poland, France, Belgium and numerousÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 5, 2018
That was certainly the case with Eisenhower's bill to advance the civil rights of African-American citizens. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 expanded voting rights protections for blacks, formed a civil rights law enforcement division in the Justice Department and created the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Appleton Post Crescent
March 5, 2018
U.S. courts have not yet reached a final conclusion on whether GPS monitoring violates the civil rights of offenders, who find the devices socially ... The Council of Europe, an international human rights organization, warns that electronic monitoring “is an intrusive measure which can violate basic humanÃâà...
Civilrights.org
March 2, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with several organizations that serve on its Employment Task Force, today wrote Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, noting their deep concerns in light of reports suggesting that the department had prepared, but withheld,Ãâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
February 25, 2018
“She was standing for what was right,” he said, adding that King helped save the U.S. so it “would not come apart at the seams.” He also praised the work of the NAACP, the country's oldest civil-rights organization that was founded Feb. 12, 1909, mainly by several white liberals after a deadly race riot a yearÃâà...
The Boston Globe
February 22, 2018
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice sued the Trump administration Thursday, alleging the federal government is discriminating ... In the lawsuit filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, the civil rights organization argues that ending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and ElÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
February 19, 2018
Later that year, the first nationwide civil rights organization in the U.S., the National Afro-American Council, was formed. Feb. 22, 1960: About 200 students, led by Frank George Pinkston and Charles Melvin Sherrod, marched from the Virginia Union University campus to downtown Richmond, shutting downÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
A civil rights group says the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Massachusetts increased dramatically in 2017 when compared to the previous year. Feb. 27, 2018, at 2:18 ... An 86 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents at the state's schools is particularly troubling, the organization said. There were 93Ãâà...
