Tag: civil rights
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign born again
Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.
Before the NFL took a knee: 4 lesser-known moments of resistance...
This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.
Trump administration quietly rolls back civil rights efforts across federal government
Previously unannounced directives will limit the Department of Justice’s use of a storied civil rights enforcement tool, and loosen the Department of Education’s requirements on investigations.
Trump’s rollback of civil rights
Trump has made clear his priorities: Benefit the most comfortable Americans and stick it to the most vulnerable.
One month to build massive actions
Let’s use our time well to organize and mobilize a protest that demonstrates our unified call for economic, racial and environmental justice.
Bernie Sanders, civil rights leaders demand workers’ rights at Nissan factory
“It is time for justice for working people,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Nissan factory workers.
NAACP vows to resist Sessions appointment as attorney general with civil...
EXCLUSIVE: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and other members of the civil rights group rally outside Senator Jeff Sessions’ office and hold a sit-in.
EPA works to remake troubled office of civil rights
A 2015 Center investigation found that the office had never made a formal finding of discrimination in 22 years.
Trump’s attack on civil rights hero John Lewis over MLK day...
The congressman does not plan on attending Trump’s inauguration, along with a handful of Democrats who are boycotting the event.
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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.