Civil Liberties

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January 2, 2012
OPINION - There are certainly ways to disagree with Obama administration policies without ad hominem attacks on Barack Obama the…
October 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
October 18, 2011
OPINION - Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible…
October 12, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - One investigation looks at claims that deputies discriminated against blacks and Latinos in two high-desert communities.…
September 21, 2011
VIDEO - Dallas resident Isis Brantley said she was stopped on Monday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after she…
August 31, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - The focus was on a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," were…
August 31, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan is letting proceed a lawsuit that challenges the city's policies as…
August 25, 2011
OPINION - This is racial, ethnic and religious profiling dressed up as counter-terrorism surveillance...
August 24, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD has become one of the country's…
August 16, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - BART and Oakland, in particular, have experienced several large-scale protests that turned into riots after a…
May 10, 2011
OPINION - Not surprisingly, the anti-sagging laws come at a time when young people -- particularly poor children and children…
April 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The Michigan State Police has bought the 'Universal Forensic Extraction Device', a handheld gadget which can copy…
April 13, 2011
OPINION - State, local and federal authorities are finding increasingly novel and stealthy ways to inconvenience people in an effort…
November 4, 2010
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania alleges that the policy is violating the rights of blacks…
June 7, 2010
OPINION - The collective outrage expressed over the civil liberties issues in the Arizona immigration law has been hardly present…
April 30, 2010
OPINION - Once people begin to accept that taking away this piece of our humanity and values is ok, it…