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Coalition Members Providing Relief for Haiti Earthquake Victims
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Has a New Name
We are now The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference). Likewise, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund is now The Leadership Conference Education Fund (The Education Fund).
Senate Goes to Work on Judicial Nominations
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 4:30 PM
Posted by Christian Motley
The Senate moved key judicial nominations yesterday, the first of the new year.
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Categories: Judiciary
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Celebrate Rosa Parks’ 97th Birth Anniversary Today
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 5:04 PM
Posted by Beth Sadler
Ninety-seven years ago today, civil rights icon Rosa Parks was born in rural Tuskegee, Alabama.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley, this remarkable woman is remembered as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement." Most famously, she gained national attention in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a White male on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. With little more than a high-school education, Rosa Parks inspired a generation of activists to fight legal segregation in the United States.
Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005. Today, we celebrate her legacy as a courageous leader and inspiring civil and human rights activist.
Categories: Civil Rights History
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy to Change by 2011
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 2:27 PM
Posted by Alexander Davis
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Graves and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, announced yesterday the creation of a working group within the Department of Defense that will evaluate how to implement a full repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the law that requires LGBT servicemen and women to keep their sexual orientation a secret or face discharge.
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Categories: LGBT Rights
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Obama Administration to Push for NCLB Reauthorization This Year
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 10:18 AM
Posted by Tyler Lewis
The Obama administration signaled this week that it is making reauthorization and strengthening of the main federal education law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), a priority for 2010. The ESEA was last reauthorized in 2002 as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
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SCOTUSblog Launches Series on 'Race and the Supreme Court' for Black History Month
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 6:04 PM
Posted by Christian Motley
In honor of Black History Month, SCOTUSblog, a blog that covers the U.S. Supreme Court, will run a series of articles throughout February focusing on the impact that the Supreme Court has had on race, in the law and in American society.
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Categories: Judiciary
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New Census Mapping Tool Helps Identify Hard-To-Count Populations
Friday, January 29, 2010 - 12:32 PM
Posted by Jamal Chevis
A new web-based mapping site will enable nonprofit organizations and state and local governments to use interactive tools designed to help increase the count among historically hard-to-count populations in the 2010 census. The Census 2010 Hard-To-Count Interactive Map [www.CensusHardToCountMaps.org] — which utilizes Google Maps© technology — was developed as part of a collaboration between academia, business, nonprofits, and the philanthropic community. The project was led by the Center for Urban Research (CUR) Mapping Service (www.urbanresearch.org) at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY).
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Categories: Census 2010
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Report Finds Record Support for Pro-LGBT Legislation in 2009
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 6:17 PM
Posted by Beth Sadler
A report released this week by The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) found that there were as many pro-LGBT bills passed nationwide in 2009 as there were in 2007 and 2008 combined.
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