The Leadership Conference is working diligently to see that Tom Perez is confirmed as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Perez is an eminently qualified public servant and consensus builder who has dedicated his career to ensuring that all individuals are treated fairly and have the opportunity to succeed. He has served with integrity and distinction at the local, state and national level, compiling an outstanding record of achievement. Civilrights.org Posts Archive
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Remembering the Legacy of LGBT Leader Frank Kameny
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Franklin E. Kameny, one of the nation’s most prominent gay rights leaders, died in his sleep yesterday, on National Coming Out Day. He was 86.
Categories: LGBT Rights, Civil Rights History
Senate Introduces Legislation to Ban Racial Profiling
Friday, October 7, 2011
Yesterday, the Senate introduced a bill that would ban the use of racial profiling by law enforcement.
Categories: Racial Profiling
Children Suffer in Alabama Immigration Fight
Friday, October 7, 2011
Civil rights leaders in Alabama and across the nation are expressing concern that the severe lack of stability created in Latino families by the state’s new anti-immigrant law, H.B. 56, has led to a humanitarian crisis in Alabama.
Categories: Immigration
Richard Cordray’s Nomination to Head CFPB Advances
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 today to send Richard Cordray's nomination to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to the full Senate for consideration.
Categories: Housing & Lending
Remembering the Legacy of Civil Rights Icon Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, one of our nation's most revered civil rights heroes, died this week at 89 in Birmingham, Ala. Shuttlesworth was a leading activist in the fight against segregation and racism in the South during the Jim Crow era. Together with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Shuttlesworth also helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Categories: Civil Rights History
Study: Restrictive Voting Laws Could Affect Five Million Americans
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
A new study from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law finds that as many as five million voters will be adversely affected in the 2012 election by new restrictive state voting laws.
Categories: Voting Rights
Federal Court Upholds Most of Alabama’s Draconian Anti-Immigrant Law
Thursday, September 29, 2011
U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled yesterday that the state of Alabama can implement most of its anti-immigrant H.B. 56 law, which is considered by many civil and human rights and immigration advocates to be the most draconian law of its kind in the nation.
Categories: Immigration
Oversight Hearing Assesses Progress of the Civil Rights Division
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held an oversight hearing last week to review the progress of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division since the confirmation of Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez to lead the division almost two years ago.
Categories: Civil Rights Enforcement Agencies
Federal Court Upholds Constitutionality of Key Provision of the Voting Rights Act
Friday, September 23, 2011
Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge John Bates upheld the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in a case brought by Shelby County, Alabama.
Categories: Judiciary, Voting Rights
Website Maps 2010 Poverty Rates by Congressional District
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Halfin Ten campaign has released its latest interactive poverty map to help advocates, elected officials, and policymakers get a clearer picture of how increasing poverty rates are affecting constituents.
Categories: Poverty & Welfare
