Sen. Jim Webb is preaching Civil Rights that don’t sound right
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 00:00
He's a Democrat pushing the GOP's false narrative of the government helping minorities more than they help whites. ...
Historian Stages Sleep-Ins to Save SC Slave Cabins
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 12:38
The Associated Press reports that when Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery.
"If I were a firm believer in ghosts and spirits and things of that nature, I don't think I could do this," said McGill, a pr ...
Civil rights laws do not protect whites?
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 09:05
According to Black Voices a former lawyer for the Justice Department claims that the rights of white voters are often ignored and only minorities are protected by our nation’s civil rights laws. Apparently charges of voter discrimination against two Black Party members were dropped because civil rights laws are applied unequally to whites.
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Ex-Justice Dept Lawyer Claims 'Whites' Rights Are Ignored by DOJ
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 06:39
The Associated Press reports that witnesses described an ugly scene: Two members of the New Black Panther Party threatening white voters the day Barack Obama was elected president, flinging insults like "white devil" and "you're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."
The fallout from the case has become even uglier. Most charges against the men were dropped for lack of evidence, the U.S. Justice Department says. Now a former Justice Department lawyer is accus ...
Art Exhibition In New York Displays Images Of The Struggle For Civil Rights
Tue, 05/25/2010 - 10:09
An exhibition called “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” at the International Center of Photography is in New York to give some answers, backed up by a second show, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
The New York Times reports there are plenty of photographs, though few framed prints. Instead they are in newspapers, magazines and brochures and o ...
Texas Conservatives Try to Whitewash Slavery From Textbooks
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 08:43
The Associated Press reports that public school students in Texas would be required to evaluate efforts by global organizations to undermine U.S. sovereignty in one of a series of changes that conservatives on the State Board of Education made Thursday to new social studies guidelines.
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Black folks need to get off the fence when it comes to profiling immigrants
04/26/2010
by devona walker
There Will Be No Civil Rights Charges In Florida Boot Camp Death
Sun, 04/18/2010 - 07:03
According to CNN, more than four years after the death of 14-year old Florida boot camp inmate Martin Lee Anderson, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced that no federal criminal civil rights charges will be filed against the eight staff members. In 2007, a Florida jury found seven guard and a nurse not guilty to manslaughter and related charges in Anderson's death. Anderson was African- ...
No Civil Right Charges In Boot Camp Death
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 18:01
More than four years after the death of 14-year-old Florida boot camp inmate Martin Lee Anderson, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced no federal criminal civil rights charges will be filed against eight staff members. The announcement effectively closes the case.
"After a careful and thorough review, a team of experienced federal prosecutors and FBI agents determined that the evidence was insufficient to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges. Accordingly, the inves ...
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