Civil Rights & Social Justice - Page 55
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Madison, Wisconsin, has been the site of several protests in recent weeks after a Madison police officer fatally shot Corey Ruiz in late July.
The one-drop rule's legacy shapes modern racial identity, highlighting how ancestry doesn't simply determine race.
The march is being held to both mark the 63rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech and advocate for voting rights.
Flock cameras expand surveillance, raising privacy concerns over tracking drivers' movements without oversight or consent.
The parents of Nolan Wells have been subjected to racist attacks over the last month simply for wanting to know what led to their son’s death.
Anna King, a retired U.S. Army captain who earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, was tossed to the ground and zip-tied in her own home by Idaho National Guard members in Washington, D.C..
LAPD officer Daniel Flores was charged with 16 felony counts of eavesdropping on or recording confidential communications.
Born on the unforgiving grounds of California’s San Quentin Prison, Black August is a child of the regularly erased, the often unnamed and widely unclaimed people most of us were never meant to know.
This move has little to do with monitoring immigrants and more to do with criminalizing and villainizing a marginalized group of people.
Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino is being urged to resign after he spewed racist stereotypes about Black people in an interview where he was asked about racial profiling.
In 2015, Davis, who worked as a county clerk in Eastern Kentucky at the time, made national headlines for ignoring the SCOTUS decision and refusing to issue licenses to gay couples.
Under the Trump administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has abandoned investigating discrimination and workplace sexual harassment.