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Black Mental Health Canada and GreenShield Introduce Transformative Women's Counseling Initiative: QUEENS
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Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Awards $250,000 to Support Clinical Research Network for Duchenne Babies Identified by Newborn
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Immigrant Detainee Rights Are Routinely, Systematically Violated, New Report Finds
August 03, 2009
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NY, NJ immigration raids violated rights
July 22, 2009
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Sotomayor rules prison policy violated inmates constitutional rights
June 22, 2009
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EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules
March 31, 2009
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Civil Rights Museum Presents 20th Anniversary Freedom Awards
August 11, 2011
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Civil Rights Museum, the 2011 Freedom Awards will be given to select individuals for their contributions to civil and human rights, education, the arts, sports community, justice and for their dedication to creating opportunity for the disenfranchised. Honorees this year include Danny Glover, Cicely Tyson, Bill Russell, Alonzo Mourning, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, among others. The Freedom Awards is a global civil rights event, part of the mission ...
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Convictions In Post-Katrina Bridge Shootings
August 08, 2011
A federal jury issued across-the-board guilty verdicts against five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on 25 counts in connection with the federal prosecution of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina and an extensive cover-up of those shootings The incident resulted ...
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Ethics Panel Probes Black NY Lawmaker In Gift Scandal
August 08, 2011
A House ethics probe of black Queens congressman Gregory Meeks is focusing on possible criminal charges for his failure to report a $40,000 payment from a businessman that appears to have been an illegal gift. Meeks originally claimed that he received the money as a loan. The bipartisan Ethics Committee announced it would investigate Meeks over the $40,000 he was given by businessman Ed Ahmad in 2007. ...
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US Sues Illinois City For Housing Discrimination
August 05, 2011
The federal government has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against the city of Joliet in Illinois. The lawsuit filed in Chicago claims Joliet hasn't offered an affordable housing plan to accommodate the mostly black residents who'd be displaced by the planned condemnation of the Evergreen Terrace housing complex. The Department of Justice lawsuit alleges that the city violated the Fair Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act by taking a series of actions, culminating in the taking through eminent domain ...
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Manufacturing Giant Settles Bias Suit
August 03, 2011
A business unit of aluminum maker Alcoa has settled a discrimination case with the U.S. Department of Labor for $540,000, the government said. Alcoa Mill Products Inc. will pay $484,656.19 in back wages to 37 Hispanics and African-Americans as well as $35,516.88 to two women who all were rejected for job positions ...
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Discrimination Suits Found To Be Common Across US
July 18, 2011
Discrimination comes in many forms, but recent years have seen substantial discussion over public service provisions for, and environmental discrimination against, historically low-income, minority communities. Residents of Orange County, NC, are familiar with continued debates over landfill, water, ...
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Natives Want Feds To Look Into Sacred Land Dispute
July 11, 2011
In the latest twist to the saga involving the increasingly likely desecration of sites held sacred by some American Indians, a coalition of Indian citizens has filed a last-ditch legal appeal against the U.S. Forest Service, hoping to change a tide that has long seemed unchangeable. ...
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Decision Day For CA Affirmative Action Ban
July 08, 2011
The deadline for Governor Jerry Brown to file his brief in the Ninth Circuit in the case challenging Proposition 209’s ban on affirmative action at the University of California is Friday. In 2009, as Attorney General, Governor Brown told the California Supreme Court that Proposition 209 violated ...
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Watchdog Group Continues Scrutiny Of Clarence Thomas' Travels
July 07, 2011
Nonpartisan government watchdog group, Common Cause, moved on two new fronts today to address ethics questions surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court:In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Marshals Service, the non partisan government watchdog group formally asked for copies of government records relating ...
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Crack Offenders Eligible For Early Release
June 30, 2011
Thousands of federal prisoners locked up for offenses involving crack cocaine will be eligible for early release following today's vote by the United States Sentencing Commission to apply the Fair Sentencing Act guidelines retroactively ...
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WARNING: CUT DEFICIT PROTECT POOR
June 27, 2011
Civil rights leaders are today calling on Executive and Congressional leadership to honor the precedent set by previous deficit reduction negotiations that have reduced the deficit without increasing poverty. In a letter to policymakers involved in deficit ...
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Audit Finds That Tucson's Ethnic Studies Program Is Legal
June 23, 2011
In the battle over Tucson’s ethnic studies program, which has been effectively outlawed when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed HB 2281 into law last year, opponents of the program have been able to more or less hide their political agenda behind vague worries about the district’s Mexican American studies program. Not so now, say supporters of the ethnic studies program after an independent audit found that the programs are perfectly legal. ...
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Bank Settles With Feds Over Allegations Of Discrimination
June 20, 2011
Justice Department reaches settlement in alleged lending discrimination in St. Louis. Settlement provides $1.45M to ensure equal lending services to African-American community ...
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Pharmaceutical Giant Settle Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
June 08, 2011
The action resolves a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor in May 2010 alleging that the company discriminated against female sales specialists. ...
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Fed's Flip-Flop Over Black Police Department Test Scores
June 01, 2011
"We are appalled to learn that the DOJ has branded our tests as "invalid," despite having been appraised openly in advance of our validation steps." ...
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FEDS TO ASIANS: SORRY
May 31, 2011
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Watchdog Group Sues Justice Dept. Over DOMA docs.
May 17, 2011
The Office of Information Policy and the Referral Unit both acknowledged receipt of Judicial Watch’s FOIA requests but have failed to respond to these requests. ...
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BLACK FIREFIGHTER VICTORY
May 13, 2011
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SPLC Sues School District Over Suspensions
May 13, 2011
"The principal just called and said he was out for the rest of the year, but he wouldn't tell me what for," she said. "That's just not fair." ...
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Corruption Probes Beleaguer Arizona's "Toughest" Sheriff
May 06, 2011
Auditors find improper spending on immigrant roundups and investigations of the Maricopa County sheriff's political foes. ...
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Justice Dept. Settles Detroit Lending Discrimination Case
May 05, 2011
"This type of discrimination is part of the web of intolerable practices that stripped vast amounts of wealth from communities of color in the last decade." ...
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Lawsuit: Racist Letters Spurred AZ Sheriff To Step Up Immigration Raids
May 03, 2011
Racially charged letters sent to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio by his constituents—were submitted as evidence in a three-year-old racial-profiling lawsuit. ...
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Justice Department Moves Against Miss. School District In Desegregation Case
May 03, 2011
The DOJ says the federal court overseeing a desegregation case dating to the late '60s has not done the job of enforcing the district's compliance. Justice Dept. Issues Warning ...
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West Point Refuses To Readmit Lesbian Cadet
April 28, 2011
West Point issued a statement explaining that it could not accept Miller because of the still-existing ban, but hinting that reentry would not be a problem in the future. ...
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Indian Nation Can't Sue In 2 Courts
April 28, 2011
The Tohono O'odham nation, which controls a 3-million acre reservation along the Arizona-Mexico border, sued over assets the US holds in trust for the tribe's benefit. ...
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US Sues Over Katrina Worker Abuse
April 21, 2011
The agency charged Signal with disparate, discriminatory treatment concerning the workers’ terms and conditions of employment, as well as segregating them. ...
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