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Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.
The Obama administration's point man on civil rights said Wednesday he will seek to fight discrimination against gays, an area in which the Justice Department has had only a small role in the past.
The Senate voted 72-22 Tuesday to confirm Thomas Perez as the Justice Department's top civil rights official.
The Dalai Lama said his visit Wednesday to the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated was sad but inspirational.
Attorney General Eric Holder has decided not to bring any criminal charges against a former Bush administration official who lawmakers said lied to them in sworn testimony.
The Justice Department is moving forward with plans to expand its civil rights division, pursuing cases of discrimination in the workplace, housing and voting rights.
In the early hours before President Barack Obama's historic inauguration, U.S. Rep. John Lewis' phone rang. It was Edward Kennedy.
Federal authorities will continue to investigate the 1964 Mississippi killings of three civil rights workers — a case that helped pass landmark legislation — despite the death of a key suspect, the Justice Department says.
The son of a late civil rights leader said Friday that he plans to seek pardons on behalf of his father, who was arrested many times while helping organize the Montgomery bus boycott and protests against segregation in Birmingham.
The National Civil Rights Museum has chosen the Dalai Lama as the recipient of the International Freedom Award.
Cesar Perales has fought his share of critics over the years, in legal battles for minorities denied jobs, bilingual classes in schools and more Latino police officers.
President Barack Obama says the Civil Rights Act opened doors for freedom but inequities remain on the legislation's 45th anniversary.
The push for racial equality is far from over, in sports and in everyday life, former President Bill Clinton told a crowd at Major League Baseball's Beacon Awards on Saturday, part of its Civil Rights Game.
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may not prevent people from filing civil rights claims against government workers in state courts.
The men and women who gather around a table at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights on Friday mornings have ample experience fighting Supreme Court confirmation battles. Now they're hoping to win one.
As editor and publisher of a small-town newspaper in the Mississippi Delta, Hazel Brannon Smith was boycotted by fellow whites and condemned in the state Senate because she advocated equal treatment of blacks during the volatile 1950s and '60s.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he is committed to a civil rights division in the tradition of the Department of Justice during the civil rights movement.
A dozen civil rights pioneers take their places of honor on U.S. postage stamps Saturday.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer wants the Justice Department to enlist a new prosecutor to investigate whether a former Justice Department official lied to him in sworn testimony.
President George W. Bush has signed legislation to mint a commemorative silver dollar marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Federal prosecutors have identified 22 current investigations into civil rights-era crimes that could be impacted by a federal appeals court's decision to overturn a conviction in a 1964 kidnapping case.
Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination.
A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion in 1965.
If Johnny can't read and Sally can't add, it's often because of the color of their skin and their ZIP code, educators and activists said Wednesday.
The High Museum of Art is focusing on the civil rights era in two new exhibits timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
It appears that the censorship police are alive and well in the newspaper, the Delaware County Times.
Glenolden officer suspended, facing assault rap - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)#blogcommentsAnother crooked cop committing crimes drunkenly peeing on someone's lawn and assaulting the homwowner. Of course, he wasn't charged with everything he should have been charged with.
In Trying to Prevent Gay Marriage, Texas May Have Accidently Abolished it for Everyone A Texas lawyer and candidate for attorney general, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, has found a little screw-up in the legal wording of some 2005 anti-equality legislation that passed overwhelmingly in the state.
Administration Guts Its Own Case for 9/11 TrialsAs he continues to follow the case of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheihk Mohammed, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald writes that by embracing military tribunals and indefinite detention for some terror suspects, the Obama administration is undercutting its own case for putting Mohamme …
Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriagesBarbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.
10 yr old Arkansas Girl Tasered with Mother's Permission10 yr old Girl Tasered for not Going to Bed & Being Unruly
Judge Rules Travel Company's "Women-Only" Trips Breaches Australia's Equal Opportunity ActA SINGLE-sex travel company for women who want to avoid boozy, bed-hopping mixed tour groups has been grounded. A judge ruled that former tour guide Erin Maitland cannot advertise women-only holidays because it could breach the human rights of men.
New citizenship guide says no to 'barbaric' practicesCanada's revamped citizenship guide warns newcomers that "barbaric cultural practices" such as honour killings will not be tolerated, marking a stronger tone against importing beliefs that clash with Canadian values.
Fayetteville Police Change Taser Rules The old rule said police could tase anyone who displayed verbal non-compliance. For example, if an officer told you to put your hands up and you refused, you could have been tased. Now, the officer must percieve physical or verbal aggression before the weapon is used.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Decision: Republicans Blast It, ACLU CelebratesNews broke this morning that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo detainees will be tried in federal court in New York.
Privacy Concerns Over UK Tracking Phone Calls, Texts, Emails, Online UseEvery phone call, text message, email and website visit made by Britons is to be stored for a year and will be available for monitoring by government bodies.
Stop and search laws pass Lower HouseLegislation proposing greater search powers for police has passed the Lower House of State Parliament after a lengthy and fierce debate.
School entrance locked 'for modesty reasons' - Israel Jewish Scene, YnetnewsSchool teachers in Kiryat Gat in Israel are barred from entering the building from the front entrance. The reason? Haredi men don't want to see women dressed "immodestly"*, so once again, women have to kowtow to religious idiots.
YouTube - Don't Tase Me Bro !! Minneapolis Officer Tasers Suspect For Throwing Brick At Cop !!!Suspects Hands on Police Car. Tasered Anyway. Rolando Ruiz is tasered by a Minneapolis police officer after being arrested for throwing a brick at a police car.
(VIDEO) More Torture by Taser: Cops Zap Man Offering No Resistance Tasered while Complying Suspect had his hands on the police car. Suspect was offering no resistance. He was tasered to the ground.
The folks over at America Blog have started a boycott on contributions to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), including Organizing for America (OFA), the community organizing project of the DNC that is the successor organization to the 2008 Presidential campaign’s Obam …
Straight ex-spouses offer quiet voice for gay marriageMany of these former spouses -- from those who still feel raw resentment toward their exes to those who have reached a mutual understanding -- see the legalization of same-sex marriage as a step toward protecting not only homosexuals but also heterosexuals.
Legislation to access public's texts and emails put on holdPlans for a £2bn Home Office surveillance project to track details of everyone's email, mobile phone, text and internet use have been put on hold after a consultation raised concerns over its technical feasibility, costs and privacy safeguards.
Chester policeman facing new charges after re-arrest - The Delaware County Daily Times : Serving Delaware County, PA(DelcoTimes.com)Another scumbag cop gets nailed for abuse. He apparently pistol whipped a person while ordering chicken and 2:30 AM last year.
Greens challenge Rudd on gay marriagePrime Minister Kevin Rudd has been asked to allow Labor MPs a free parliamentary vote on gay marriage.
Massachusetts Man Says He Was Fired for Telling Colleague Her Gay Marriage Is Wrong A manager at a Massachusetts retail store claims he was unjustly fired after he told a colleague he thought her impending marriage to another woman was wrong. Peter Vidala, 24, told FoxNews.com he was terminated in August from his position as second deputy manager at a Brookston …
Once again, the voting public has spoken. Once again, what they're telling us is sad. As in California with Proposition 8, 53% of voters in Maine have voted to repeal legislation which would have extended equal rights to gay citizens:
Why should the birthright of equality for tens of millions of GLBT American citizens first depend upon getting a majority of people to stop hating them? There would be a tidal wave of blood flowing in the streets and entire cities set ablaze if any other minority' s rights were p …
Niles couple banned from Wal-Mart after dispute over BIC lightersDespite the fact that surveillance video shows that no wrong was committed, a gay couple with their two special-needs sons has been banned from any Walmart store anywhere. No apologies forthcoming from Walmart or the police. Read the story.
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