Recent weeks have seen courts around the country rejecting and raising concerns about voting laws that seek to keep people of color (especially Black people), low-income people, and other...
August 4, 2016, Cincinnati – Today, civil rights attorneys urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reinstate claims that Michigan’s emergency manager law violates the Voting Rights...
August 4, 2016 New York – In response to reports that some members of the New York State Assembly plan to introduce a “Blue Lives Matter” bill today to add police to the groups covered under existing...
A board reviewing the status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has decided against releasing a Saudi who U.S. authorities believe narrowly avoided becoming one of the hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001,...
Green Party presumptive Presidential nominee Jill Stein has offered her vice-presidential bid to international human rights scholar and activist Ajamu Baraka. “I am honored and excited to announce...
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee , has chosen human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Baraka was founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights...
Joining presidential nominee Jill Stein’s at the top of the Green Party's ticket, the revolutionary activist, organizer and writer Ajamu Baraka has far larger ambitions that merely winning the White...
Outgoing NYPD Commissioner William Bratton got high marks Tuesday from his law enforcement colleagues, but mixed reviews from civil liberties and civil rights activists. “Commissioner Bratton leaves...
... Other critics blasted the departing commissioner on a variety of fronts, while his defenders joined the mayor in thanking Bratton for a job well done. “Commissioner Bratton leaves behind a...
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will retire in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. He will be replaced by NYPD’s Chief of Department James O’Neill. Bratton, who was...
