January 2009New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80 percent of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday... Click Here for full...
February 6, 2019A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Steven Salaita, the American Studies Association—or ASA—and other defendants who were sued after endorsing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions—or BDS—...
July 2009New York City used tests that discriminated against Black and Latino applicants to the Fire Department and had little relation to firefighting, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled, dealing a blow to...
A coalition led by the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) and other organizations joined in a letter to Chief Judge DiFiore to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers (ICE) from the...
Updated: December 21, 2017
April 11, 2016President Barack Obama's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, has been characterized as a moderate who, if confirmed, would nudge his divided colleagues slightly to the left because...
October 17, 2016North Dakota State's Attorney Ladd Erickson has dropped criminal trespassing charges against Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman -- and is instead seeking to charge her with participating in a riot,...
June 19, 2017WASHINGTON (CN) – By a rare 4-2 vote Monday, the Supreme Court sidelined damages claims against high executive officers at the Justice Department over the inhumane treatment suffered by Muslim, South...
June 28, 2017Gabriel Guzman has dark brown eyes, but it’s difficult to discern when you talk to him. That’s because Guzman, a former Illinois prison inmate, has a hard time maintaining eye contact, one of the...
November 21, 2019Léopold met with Nadia Ben Youssef during the second Black and Palestinian Solidarity conference in Naarm (Melbourne) on Indigenous Wurundjeri land, organized by Gary Foley and Suzannah Henty in...
December 6, 2019...The special prison units have become known as “Guantanamo North” for their historically high rates of Muslim prisoners — 70% when they opened, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a...
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