civil rights
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Fourteen examples of systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system
The author is legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans.…
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NYC ‘Stop and Frisk’ policy targets Black, Latino youth
Basic constitutional rights that guarantee for every individual freedom from search, seizure and detention without an established probable cause of…
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Free Lynne Stewart!
On July 15, a federal judge resentenced civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart to 10 years in federal prison. The sentence…
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Militant protest denounces SB1070 in Boston
On June 10, over 600 people converged in Boston to protest bigoted Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who was attending the…
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Kagan likely to move Supreme Court further right
On May 10, President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan, the current U.S. solicitor general, to fill a vacancy on the…
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Call for support at civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart’s resentencing
On July 15, prominent civil liberties attorney Lynne Stewart will be re-sentenced. Supporters have urged action in advance of the…
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Supreme Court upholds federal law undermining civil rights
On June 21, the Supreme Court decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project delivered a blow to civil and free…
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Fighting back against California’s proposed budget cuts
This article was presented at a Party for Socialism and Liberation public forum in Los Angeles. The writer is a…
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Trial for Oscar Grant’s killer excludes Blacks from jury
The murder trial for Johannes Mehserle is set to begin in Los Angeles on June 10. Mehserle is on trial…
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Important victory in legal battle against racist hiring policies in Chicago, but fight goes on
African Americans won an important Supreme Court victory in late May. They have been continuously fighting the racist hiring policies…
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