By Myles BurkeFeatures correspondent Getty Images Rosa Parks (Credit: Getty Images) On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. In these exclusive BBC clips, discover how her courageous act of defiance set in motion a chain of events that ended segregation in the US, but at …
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A Mississippi city under scrutiny for allegations of racism and retaliation from police is now at the center of a federal Department of Justice investigation. “Today the Justice Department is announcing the opening of a civil rights investigation into the city of Lexington, Mississippi, and the Lexington Police Department to determine whether they engage in a pattern or practice of …
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. “I’m kind of persona non grata around here,” said Baker, who had headed the Kingsland, Texas, library system until she refused to …
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An acting lieutenant at Pinckneyville Correctional Center appeared admitted in U.S. District Court for Southern Illinois Wednesday that he failed to intervene while his subordinates beat a restrained inmate. Mark C. Maxwell, 52, of Pinckneyville, faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of deprivation of civil rights under color of law. He was …
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A Jewish legal rights advocacy group has alleged that the University of Pennsylvania and Wellesley College have violated federal civil rights law by allowing for discrimination against Jews. The Brandeis Center, a Jewish civil rights legal organization, filed civil rights complaints with the US Department of Education on Thursday, alleging both schools failed to adequately respond to harassment of Jews. …
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Civil rights law is a type of law that focuses on protecting and fighting for people’s constitutional rights. Civil rights lawyers work to ensure that everyone is treated equally under law, regardless of their age, race, sex, religion, disability, and other protected characteristics. If you’re passionate about the law and working to protect the rights of your community, civil rights …
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A trial is set to begin Monday that will determine if former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison violated the constitutional rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and neighbors when he “blindly” fired into her apartment while attempting to execute a search warrant. Hankison, 47, is facing a trial before a federal jury that could last three weeks to …
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Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies are being sued over an incident during which a police dog was unleashed on a man and latched onto his right arm, severing an artery, until a deputy struggled to pull the canine off. Then, after the suspect had been hospitalized for days and was being taken to jail, a deputy driving while using his phone …
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