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Boston celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK as advocates urge continued fight against injustice

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event

The Independent UK

Legendary civil rights attorney Fred Gray honored with statute in Alabama

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association

The Independent UK

Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted

Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department’s broad mission

The Independent UK

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Head of NAACP disinvited from speaking to Texas state bar over suit against Trump administration

The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department

The Independent UK

A White School Officer Pepper-Sprayed and Kneed a Black Beaumont Student, Complaint Says. Will Feds Act?

Trump's gutting of the Education Department could stymie justice for 17-year-old Ja’Liyah Celestine.

Texas Observer

Brickbat: Locked in Here With Me

A federal jury has found Ivory Cousins guilty of three counts of depriving an inmate of his civil rights under… The post Brickbat: Locked in Here With Me appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Here Is Why Harvard Argues That Trump's Funding Freeze Violates the First Amendment

The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."

Reason

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Habeas corpus: A thousand-year-old legal principle for defending rights that’s getting a workout under the Trump administration

In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been lawful in the United States from its very inception, or in many other countries where the rule…

The Conversation

Don’t believe the doubters: protest still has power

Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistance

The Guardian - US

Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

Internal mission statements from Harmeet Dhillon pivots division’s priorities away from marginalized groups’ rights

The Guardian - US

Is Target Bringing Back All DEI Initiatives? CEO Brian Cornell Meets With Rev. Al Sharpton

Target's chief executive officer has met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

International Business Times UK

Target CEO to meet with civil rights leader Al Sharpton amid DEI cuts

Target’s chief executive officer is planning to meet this week with the Rev. Al Sharpton

The Independent UK

Jessica Alba defends Blue Origins space flight passengers

Jessica Alba has defended the star-studded Blue Origin space flight amid a furious backlash to Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, singer Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen for taking part.

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Texas law students warn that bill to quash “terrorist activity” in universities could trample free speech rights

The bill would require universities to report any visa-holding students who support terrorism, but its vague language could be dangerous, civil rights groups say.

The Texas Tribune

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Why Harvard Just Said No to Trump — And What It Means for Other American Universities

Harvard's resistance towards Trump's attempt to control the education system is already influencing how other elite universities respond to his administration's demands.

Radio France Internationale

Family of Martin Luther King hits back at Le Pen for comparing struggles

The family of Dr Martin Luther King have criticised far-right leader Marine Le Pen for comparing her ban from running in the 2027 presidential election to the US civil rights movement, describing the comparison as an "inappropriate distortion of history".

The Guardian - US

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

The Independent UK

PepsiCo agrees to meet with Al Sharpton over DEI cuts, potential boycott

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has agreed to meet this week with civil rights advocates from the National Action Network to discuss the company’s recent decision to roll back some of its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

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The Guardian - US

Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes

Meta ending DEI programs, getting rid of factcheckers and changing content moderation policies led to LDF’s decision

The Independent UK

Education Department withdraws from plan to address discipline disparities for Native students

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at a South Dakota school system, saying it was wrongly rooted in efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion

The Independent UK

Lawsuit alleging environmental racism in Louisiana parish allowed to proceed, federal court says

A federal appellate court says a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward

The Texas Tribune

Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. That could hurt students with disabilities in Texas.

In a state with a checkered history with federal special education law, advocates say Texas students will see an erosion of their disability rights protections.

The Guardian - UK

Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights

Book highlights performer’s wartime contribution and how she used her fame to provide cover and promote equal rights

The Independent UK

IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say

The IRS plans to cut as many as 20,000 staffers as part of layoffs that began Friday

The Independent UK

Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week

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