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Racial justice

ACLU Seeks Public Records To Determine Constitutionality Of Foreclosure Proceedings In Florida

Judge Slams City for FDNY Refusal to Hire New Firefighters

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 10/19/2010
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Civil Rights Groups Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

  • By: Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 10/07/2010
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ACLU Asks Kentucky Zoning Board To Reverse Improper Permit Denial For Muslim Prayer Space

Former Detainees Join Federal Court Challenge to Post-9/11 Racial Profiling and Abuse of Muslim, Arab and South Asian Men

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 09/13/2010
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For Katrina’s Fifth Anniversary, NCJW Calls for Restoration of Gulf Coast

  • By: National Council of Jewish Women
  • 08/27/2010
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Unequal Access to Citizenship for Muslims

Canadian RCMP Conducting Criminal Investigation of U.S. and Syrian Officials for Maher Arar's Rendition to Torture

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 06/14/2010
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Del Monte Settlement Benefits Migrant Workers

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 06/11/2010
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NAACP LDF Releases Report on Prison-Based Gerrymandering

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • 06/01/2010
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South Dakota Agrees To Reinstate American Indian Voters Unlawfully Removed From Rolls

Canada Asserts Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar’s Case Not a Threat to Diplomatic Relations As U.S. Government Has Claimed

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 05/24/2010
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Statement of Wade Henderson on Gov. Jan Brewer’s Signing of Arizona Anti-Immigration Bill

  • By: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • 04/23/2010
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U.S. Census Bureau Sued for Hiring Discrimination, According to Outten & Golden LLP and Co-Counsel

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/13/2010
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New Bureau of Prisons Rule Discloses Policies and Conditions in Experimental Segregation Units

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 04/06/2010
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Fifth Circuit Remands English Language Learner Case to Determine Cause of "Alarming" Failure Rate of Students

MALDEF Enters Statewide Lawsuit to Address Inadequate Funding for English Learners and At-Risk Students

SPLC Seeks Justice in Police Shooting of Elderly Louisiana Man

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 02/14/2010
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MALDEF, ACLU/SC and NDLON File Lawsuit Challenging City of Costa Mesa's Anti-Solicitation Ordinance

Civil Rights Coalition Launches Second Run of Census Transit System PSAs Targeted at Hard-to-Count Communities

  • By: The Leadership Conference Education Fund
  • 02/01/2010
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Historic Victory: Court Rules FDNY Hiring Practices Intentionally Discriminated on the Basis of Race for Decades

  • By: Center for Constitutional Rights
  • 01/13/2010
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No Joke: Nassau County Town Outlaws "Waving While Latino"

NAACP CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF VAN JONES AND WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS INITIATIVE

  • By: NAACP Legal Defense Fund
  • 09/04/2009
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Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.

  • By: Southern Poverty Law Center
  • 09/02/2009
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Don't Leave Young Latinas Behind in the Classroom or on the Field

  • By: National Women's Law Center
  • 08/31/2009
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Landmark Housing Desegregation Victory

  • By: Anti-Discrimination Center
  • 08/17/2009
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President Obama Nominates Edward M. Chen for Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern California

  • By: Equal Justice Society
  • 08/07/2009
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Brief in Challenge to Use of Race in University Enrollment

Supreme Court Will Not Hear Mumia Abu-Jamal's Claim of Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

FORMER CHICAGO POLICE COMMANDER JON BURGE ARRESTED ON CHARGES RELATING TO TORTURE OF OVER 100 AFRICAN AMERICANS

  • By: People's Law Office
  • 10/21/2008
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Justice Dept. Numbers Show Prison Trends

  • By: The New York Times
  • 12/06/2007
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Alabama senator proposes English only driver test

Paperwork logjam threatens 2008 voting for immigrants

Police Shoot Unarmed 18-Year-Old Black Man in Brooklyn Twenty Times

Lawmakers Criticize FEMA's Handling of Hazards Posed by Trailers

  • By: The Washington Post
  • 11/09/2007
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Landmark Katrina Lawsuit Against State Farm Begins

Lawsuit: State discriminated against blacks with insurance choice

  • By: The Lincoln Journal-Star
  • 11/05/2007
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Court Gives Nehemiah Ray of Hope: Feds Move to End Down Payment 'Gifts' Delayed

US top court takes up case of Muslim who alleges harassment in prisons, jails over faith

  • By: International Herald Tribune
  • 10/29/2007
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Fake CNN Website Tries to Frame Hispanic Group for Wildfires

Lawmakers seek US action in Jena 6 case

  • By: The Associated Press
  • 10/16/2007
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Verdict triggers strong reactions

  • By: St. Petersburg Times
  • 10/14/2007
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Noose on Door at Columbia Prompts Campus Protest

  • By: The New York Times
  • 10/11/2007
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Massive sweep deports hundreds

Katrina trailers could be gone in 2 years, official says

Legacy of School Segregation Endures, Separate but Legal

  • By: The New York Times
  • 09/30/2007
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Small Louisiana town braces for one of biggest protests since '60s

  • By: The Edmonton Journal
  • 09/20/2007
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Civil rights' ONLINE movement

Feud Brews Over Katrina Housing Funds

Inequities for Poor, Minorities in Medicare’s Private Health Plans, Report Says

  • By: www.seniorjournal.com
  • 09/10/2007
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Law firm wants school district to pay $1.8M

An Overlooked Problem with Title VII's Protections Against Discrimination: Procedural Obstacles to Invoking the Law

Op-Ed - An Unjust Judge

  • By: washingtonpost.com
  • 08/21/2007
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Ex-Justice Official Accused of Aiding Scheme to Scratch Minority Voters

  • By: McClatchy Newspapers
  • 06/24/2007
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Restaurants: The New Sweatshops

New Orleans Deaths up 47%

In South, Pardons for Segregation Era Offenses

Boston Residents Face to Face with Bio-War

  • By: Inter Press Service
  • 05/16/2007
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FEMA Provides Toxic Trailers for Hurricane Refugees

Link Between Race, Hazardous-Waste Sites Still Strong

  • By: The Arizona Republic
  • 05/09/2007
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A Decade of Race-blind Admissions at Cal

  • By: Yahoo! News/Associated Press
  • 05/07/2007
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Texas Residents Rebel over Toxic Waste

Race Gap Cited in Traffic Searches

U.S. Canal Project Raises Tensions with Mexico

  • By: Environmental News Network
  • 04/25/2007
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Healing 27-Year Rift, Yonkers Settles a Fight Over Housing Segregation

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/19/2007
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California has most minorities near toxic facilities

Ga. Senior Class To Try Integrated Prom

Wealthy Connecticut School District Starts to Grapple With Racial Imbalance

  • By: The New York Times
  • 04/05/2007
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Most Pediatricians Do Not Hire Professional Interpreters for Bilingual Patients, Study Finds

  • By: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • 04/03/2007
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Feinstein: Indian health clinics need federal funds

U.S. Accuses Walgreen of Racial Bias

  • By: The New York Times
  • 03/08/2007
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