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Who Was the Real Jackie Robinson?
by Jamilah King on April 12 2013, 6:00AM
“42,” the Hollywood film about Jackie Robinson’s first year in the racially segregated major leagues, comes out today. Inside the racial politics and legacy of the baseball trailblazer.
Topics: Arts & Culture, History, Jackie Robinson
Report: Government Abandoned Integration of Housing For Decades
by Seth Freed Wessler on October 29 2012, 11:22AM
The Fair Housing Act has been largely ignored for 40 years, according to a new investigation.
Topics: /NOW Blog
East Haven Police Reach Agreement With Feds On Racial Discrimination
by Seth Freed Wessler on October 23 2012, 5:18PM
The agreement comes more than three years after the federal government began an investigation of practices of systemic discrimination and brutality against Latinos by East Haven police.
Topics: /NOW Blog
Feds: Bias Against Transgender Employees Is Sex Discrimination
by Shani O. Hilton on April 24 2012, 5:04PM
The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission says Mia Macy, a transgender federal employee, can in fact file a bias claim under Title VII after being denied a job her gender identity.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, /NOW Blog
Do We Need Government to Fight Discrimination?
by Rinku Sen on March 26 2012, 9:16AM
Rinku Sen answers the question in an essay for The Nation magazine. There is nothing inherently corrupt about government, Sen writes, and the best way to shape it for collective good is to treat it as the critical site of struggle and change that it is.
Topics: Rinku Sen
FBI File of NAACP’s Benjamin Hooks Reveals Death Threats
by Jamilah King on January 25 2011, 11:50AM
Hooks was both spied on and protected by the FBI.
Topics: Politics
Civil Rights Complaints Against Schools Spike to Record High
by Julianne Hing on October 14 2010, 10:17AM
Education Department says more people are speaking up because they believe feds will help now.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Tea Partiers Hijack Malcolm X Speech
by Jamilah King on September 13 2010, 2:27PM
It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Topics: Politics
Little Rock Nine’s Jefferson Thomas Passes Away
by Julianne Hing on September 7 2010, 4:37PM
Over fifty years later, the battle to desegregate schools continues.
Topics: Schools & Youth
Hate-Crime Sentence and Ruling on Marriage Cross a Spectrum of Justice
by Michelle Chen on August 7 2010, 9:32AM
A hate-crime killing and Judge Walker’s ruling speak to a spectrum of inequality from the county courthouse to a Brooklyn street.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Weed Arrests A ‘Civil Rights Issue,’ Says NAACP
by Jamilah King on June 30 2010, 3:39PM
In what drug policy reform advocates are calling a “landmark moment”, the California NAACP announced its support yesterday for Proposition 19, a controversial ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in the state. The group stood with leaders from the California…
Topics: Criminal Justice
Civil Rights Groups Not as Hot for Kagan as She Is for Marshall
by Naima Ramos-Chapman on June 29 2010, 4:33PM
Endorsements come with qualifications, if at all.
Topics: Elena Kagan
SB 1070’s Impact on Kids: Broken Families and America’s Soul
by Michelle Chen on May 3 2010, 9:01AM
Children are the hidden casualties of America’s war on immigrants, and the passage of Arizona’s new racial profiling legislation could open up countless opportunities for local law enforcement to break up families by putting undocumented parents on the fast-track to…
Topics: Immigration
Untying the Knot of Seperate and Unequal Marriage
by Jorge Rivas on September 21 2009, 8:38AM
While more states move to legalize same-sex marriage, California has instead eliminated this right with the passage of Proposition 8. Legal scholar Tobias Barrington Wolff and civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson join the Hammer Museum to discuss the…
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by Donna Hernandez on June 19 2009, 2:09PM
Last night Nas’ song If I Ruled the World kept playing back in my head after a long discussion with a friend of mine about Medgar Evers. Today marks the anniversary of the day that civil rights leader Medgar…
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by Michelle Chen on June 12 2009, 11:07PM
After about three decades behind bars, a Puerto Rican revolutionary might soon be free at last. A generation ago, Carlos Alberto Torres was part of a major movement for human rights and self-determination for Puerto Rico. Driven by the…
Topics: Global Affairs
Looking Beyond the Supreme Court on Voting Rights
by Dom Apollon on April 29 2009, 10:56AM
As you may have heard, lawyers on opposing sides of a slew of critical civil rights cases have been arguing before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court lately. Last week our nation’s closely-split high court heard what they call…
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Attacking Families Outside the Box
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 24 2009, 2:46PM
Marriage equality is hot these days. This week the fire—and the brimstone—was in Maine, where the legislative judiciary committee held a hearing on a proposed marriage bill. Thousands of Mainers proudly came out to support the bill, filling the Augusta,…
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Check Out Our Q&A with Andrea Shorter
by Julianne Hing on April 9 2009, 12:53PM
It’s been a big week for gay marriage. The good news started with Iowa last week, then Vermont followed a few days later. Today we have our fingers crossed for D.C and are very excited for New York. California better…
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Writing the Next Chapter on Race
by Guest Columnist on March 31 2009, 1:50PM
By Judith Browne-Dianis, Co-Director Advancement Project For several months, the media has been pushing the fairy tale that the United States moved beyond racism with the election of President Obama. As untrue as that is, there are people who started…
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