Civil Rights

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July 20, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Predatory lending in the African-American community is the main civil rights issue of this era, witnesses…
June 28, 2010
OPINION - Byrd renounced his racist past, demonstrating that people have the power to change and move beyond hate...
June 16, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - One of three white men charged with burning down a predominantly black church hours after Obama…
June 11, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The city's police chief called Thursday for the firing of a white officer who he said repeatedly…
June 2, 2010
BOSTON (AP) - "Their struggle then is ours now," said Deivid Ribeiro, 21, an illegal immigrant from Brazil and an…
June 1, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded…
June 1, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda…
May 28, 2010
Cypress Hill, Juanes, Massive Attack, Jack Black, filmmaker Michael Moore and De La Rocha's bandmates have also joined the campaign...
May 26, 2010
OPINION - At no time in history has a single liberation movement advanced or been sustained by the interest of…
May 24, 2010
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (AP) - "It's fundamentally un-American to oppose the Civil Rights Act," said University of Louisville student Perry Green...
May 21, 2010
This is not the first time the Kentucky Republican's campaign has hit a bump in racially sensitive territory.
May 21, 2010
OPINION - Until now, the politics of race have remained subtle in the Tea Party climate...
May 20, 2010
THE GRIO REPORT - Malcolm X's unpublished thoughts on race, his life and his work were unveiled just a few…
May 20, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul scrambled to explain his criticism of the landmark U.S. Civil Rights Act,…
May 12, 2010
OPINION - There is a quiet but glaring disconnect between civil rights leaders backing immigration reform and the antipathy many…
April 30, 2010
OPINION - Once people begin to accept that taking away this piece of our humanity and values is ok, it…
April 20, 2010
From Huffington Post: Dr. Dorothy Height, the matriarch of the civil rights movement, died today at the age of 98.
April 15, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not…
March 31, 2010
OPINION - In virtually every decade, African-Americans have been undercounted and by no small margin...
February 26, 2010
OPINION - So what's on Jones' mind these days? Everything from the meaning of the NAACP Image award to the…