New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure ‘We have come too far to turn around now,’ the monument on Alabama’s Montgomery Square reads The Guardian - US · Jun 19
DOJ Wants To Block Illinois City's Program That Gives $25,000 Payments to Black Residents Only The US Department of Justice challenges Evanston, Illinois' reparations programme, arguing it violates civil rights protections. International Business Times UK · Jun 19
Amazon Workers Face Internal Probe After Pushing Seattle to Crack Down on Data Centers Three Amazon engineers face an internal investigation after advocating for stricter data centre regulations, alleging retaliation under Seattle's civil rights protections. International Business Times UK · Jun 19
ICE Says It's Moved Detainees Out of 'Alligator Alcatraz' For Hurricane Season Civil rights and environmentalists vowed to keep fighting in court until the detention camp is torn down and returned to its original state. Reason · Jun 18
Trump officials removed more than 50 park exhibits because they ‘disparaged Americans’ by talking about slavery DOJ says restoring the installations is ‘herculean and unmanageable’ after parks strip mentions of slavery, civil rights and climate change The Independent UK · Jun 18
Families of kids with disabilities warn Education Department changes could break a flawed system Parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited months for the Education Department to address complaints of bullying or discrimination The Independent UK · Jun 18
Trump Is Gutting the Department of Education, and Critics Warn the Fallout Will Hit the Country’s Most Vulnerable Students First The administration is shifting oversight of special education and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies. The Mary Sue · Jun 17
Who was Kohen Wiley? Questions grow after Mississippi police shooting leaves 1-year-old dead outside Walmart Kohen Wiley Mississippi: A tragic incident in Mississippi has led to the death of a one-year-old boy, Kohen Wiley. Police opened fire on a vehicle outside a Walmart after responding to a shoplifting call. The child was pronounced dead at a hospital. The family has retained civil rights attorney Ben… The Economic Times · Jun 17
Toddler shot dead in Walmart parking lot as cops responded to shoplifting call Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he intends to ‘seek justice’ for one year-old Kohen Wiley after the officer-involved shooting in Mississippi The Independent UK · Jun 17
Trump is shifting special ed, civil rights out of Education Department. Here's what we know The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies The Independent UK · Jun 16
Trump admin fights to make reparations program illegal because it doesn’t help people who aren’t Black A Chicago-area suburb made headlines for its first-in-the-nation reparations payments. The Justice Department says it’s racially discriminatory The Independent UK · Jun 16
In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi AAP · Jun 16
Trump and Linda McMahon push ahead with plan to gut federal education oversight These transfers mean that the bulk of the Education Department's functions have now been distributed across various other agencies The Independent UK · Jun 16
FBI raids voter registration nonprofit Critics said the FBI raid smacked of desperation by the Trump administration just ahead of the midterms Salon · Jun 16
AAP · Jun 15 Judge tosses lawsuit challenging civil rights agency's pullback on transgender workplace protections A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission unlawfully refuses to enforce protections for transgender workers
International Business Times UK · Jun 14 Federal Judge Condemns and Orders Restoration of Trump's Removal of Slavery and Climate Exhibits From National Parks A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore historical exhibits on slavery, climate change, and civil rights in national parks, criticising their removal as an attempt to rewrite history.
The Independent UK · Jun 12 Home where King planned Selma voting rights marches opens at Michigan museum A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South now has been rebuilt at a Michigan museum after being dismantled and hauled from Alabama
The Conversation · Jun 11 Conspiracy theories that emerged from a civil rights shooting 60 years ago resonate today On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran.
International Business Times UK · Jun 10 Trump Compares Himself to Martin Luther King Jr., Insists His July 4 Speech Was Bigger Donald Trump claims his July 4th speech drew a larger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech, sparking criticism and scrutiny over crowd-size comparisons.
The Independent UK · Jun 10 ‘Indiscriminate surveillance’ lawsuit claims 1.6 billion car scans tracking millions of drivers Civil rights groups have sued on behalf of New York residents to stop Westchester County, New York, from using nearly the nearly 600 license plate readers they have installed around the county
AAP · Jun 9 Motorists sue Westchester County over 1.6 billion license plate scans Civil rights groups have sued on behalf of New York residents to stop Westchester County, New York, from using nearly the nearly 600 license plate readers they have installed around the county
The Texas Tribune · Jun 9 Government watchdog says Texas detention center wasted up to $11.5 million before detainees arrived A U.S. General Accounting Office report found a host of problems at El Paso’s Camp East Montana, including a contractor losing a loaded gun on the property after it opened.
The Economic Times · Jun 8 Quote of the day by Malcolm X: 'The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the...' - inspiring lessons on media influence, public perception, bias and importance of thinking beyond headlines by African American civil rights leader Quote of the day by Malcolm X: Malcolm X's powerful words highlight media's immense sway over public perception, capable of shaping views on innocence and guilt. His message, resonating today amidst instant global information, urges critical thinking. Understanding how narratives are framed is crucial for forming independent judgments in our…
The Independent UK · Jun 5 Southern Poverty Law Center floats sanctions against DOJ after unsigned indictment shared with media before being filed in court The civil rights group claims the DOJ shared a draft version of a new indictment this week before the document was officially filed in court, ‘putting media strategy before the sacrosanct rules on grand jury secrecy’
The Guardian - US · Jun 4 DoJ investigates 15 medical schools over alleged discrimination in admissions Announcement follows DoJ’s recent findings that medical schools at UCLA and Yale illegally used race in admissions