Human rights scholar Martha Minow addressed around 30,000 graduates and guests at NYU’s 191st commencement ceremony in Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, after receiving an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the university. Minow, the former dean of Harvard Law School and holder of Harvard University’s highest professorship, delivered NYU’s commencement address on behalf of this This story Human rights scholar Martha Minow on civil rights, race and gender at commencement appeared first on Washington...
Election experts worry that if even one sympathetic judge rules in favor of United Sovereign Americans, it could sow doubts about election integrity.
Election experts worry that if even one sympathetic judge rules in favor of United Sovereign Americans, it could sow doubts about election integrity.
In the last week of April, Congress passed, and President Biden signed, a law banning TikTok in the United States if its parent company, ByteDance, did not sell it to an American company within 12 months. The New York Times Senior writer David Leonhardt provides a good summary of why this bill was passed. It is a More
CBS Evening News commemorated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the historic Supreme Court opinion that reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and ended official segregation, by equating the historic struggles of black Americans to illegal immigration. I couldn’t believe it myself either the first time I watched, but see for yourselves: WATCH: CBS Evening News commemorates the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education by equating illegal immigration with the historic struggle...
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The NAACP is one of over a dozen civil rights organizations urging President Joe Biden to pardon Marilyn Mosby, the former Baltimore prosecutor awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraudulently obtaining a loan. The request to Biden states that Mosby did not receive fair treatment and that her prosecution was based on a political vendetta Continue reading NAACP, Other Civil Rights Orgs Call For Biden To Pardon Marilyn Mosby
The Department of Justice and civil rights groups filed two lawsuits on Thursday to block an Iowa immigration bill from taking effect.
The current pastor at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in the Third Ward reflected Wednesday on the life of the church's founder, who died Tuesday at age 95.
WASHINGTON >> The late U.S. civil rights leader and journalist Daisy Bates, who was instrumental in desegregating Arkansas public schools in the 1950s, was honored with a statue of her that was unveiled on Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol.
DAVENPORT, Iowa (OSV News) — Separate lawsuits filed by the U.S. Justice Department and civil rights groups claim that the state of Iowa’s new immigration law, which creates a state crime for unlawful reentry, violates federal law and the U.S. Constitution. Both lawsuits were filed May 9, eight days after prayer rallies and marches organized […] The post US Justice Department, civil rights groups file lawsuits against Iowa over immigration law first appeared on OSV News.
In a letter to readers, Jen Fawkes shares how her debut novel came together after multiple tries.