Two weeks ago the United Methodist General Conference reaffirmed 40 years of anti-gay prejudice, voting to continue to bar lesbian and gay people from ministry and marriage while faithful gay United...
On April 20, unnoticed by any media outlet whatsoever, a Libyan prisoner at Guantánamo, Omar Mohammed Khalifh (also identified as Omar Abu Bakr) lost his habeas corpus petition.
Our political leaders should not begin to offer solutions for a problem if they won’t even name it: systemic, institutional racism exists in police forces throughout our country. http://www...
The federal government is paying $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants who sued over their detention and treatment in a Brooklyn jail after 9/11, when hundreds of noncitizens...
Men Continue to Be Held Alone in Cells 23 Hours a Day May 12, 2020, San Francisco – Today, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging...
This piece is part of a debate package written for In These Times ' September issue . The print version went to press before the recent white-supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., but here...
Bertha Social Justice Institute Director Purvi Shah will moderate a panel at the Queer Dreams national conference on Saturday, October 5th. What: Restructuring Leadership Beyond Diversity &...
An analysis of police department data found blacks and Latinos were nine time as likely as whites to get stopped and frisked by New York City police last year, but they were no more likely to get...
