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Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The Conversation

‘He never hid himself’: the incredible life of gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin

Netflix’s Oscar-tipped biopic tells the story of an activist whose significant work was often discounted because of his sexuality

The Guardian - US

Rustin review – Colman Domingo lifts dutiful civil rights biopic

Despite a captivating central performance, Bayard Rustin’s story doesn’t quite leap off the screen in George C Wolfe’s stolid follow-up to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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New Orleans civil rights activist's family home listed on National Register of Historic Places

The New Orleans home where civil rights activist Oretha Castle Haley grew up and that served as a hub for Louisiana’s 1960s civil rights movement has been added to the National Register of Historic Places

The Independent UK

Netflix Film Shines Light on Unsung Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin

Critics, stars praise Colman Domingo’s portrayal of historic March on Washington organizer in ‘Rustin’

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Columbia, Cornell and other colleges face US inquiries over alleged antisemitism and Islamophobia

The federal government has opened civil rights investigations at seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war

The Independent UK

Mississippi man had ID in his pocket when he was buried without his family's knowledge

A prominent civil rights lawyer says Mississippi authorities buried a Black man in a paupers cemetery without notifying his family after he was killed by a police SUV, even though he had ID in his pocket

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Discrimination charge filed against Michigan salon after owner's comments on gender identity

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights filed a charge of discrimination against Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City

The Independent UK

Lexington is once again rated high nationally on LGBTQ equality

A national civil rights organization is placing Lexington in the top two percent nationally when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality.

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Chicago city lawyers want a federal judge to recuse himself from hearing a police torture suit linked to Jon Burge

Former civil rights lawyer Jeffrey Cummings, appointed a federal judge this year, once signed off on reports condemning an investigation into accusations of torture by Burge and his so-called “midnight crew.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-officer Derek Chauvin makes another bid to overturn federal conviction in murder of George Floyd

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death

The Independent UK

Fear and free speech collide on America's campuses as Israel-Hamas war rages

As war rages on between Israel and Gaza, tensions have been heightened at schools across the US, students and academics tell Josh Marcus

The Independent UK

Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?

The civil rights movement improved the lives of African Americans as well as African Canadians. Conditions in Africa, meanwhile, have become increasingly dire—and are increasingly ignored

The Walrus

Jury in Breonna Taylor federal civil rights trial opens deliberations in case of ex-officer

A jury has begun deliberating at the federal trial of a former Louisville police officer accused of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights

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Riot breaks out at scandal-hit South Carolina jail accused of violating inmates’ civil rights

It is the latest in a long string of violent incidents at the troubled Alvin S Glenn Detention Center in Columbia

The Independent UK

Incidents targeting Jews and Muslims on the rise, new figures show

Muslim civil rights group says numbers directly connected to ongoing war in Gaza

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Chicago cop pleads guilty in kidnapping, sex abuse case

James B. Sajdak, 65, faces up to a year in federal prison under a misdemeanor civil rights count. Federal prosecutors accused him of forcing a woman into his squad car to perform a sex act on him.

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6 Reasons Why Rustin Has Become My Favorite Movie About The Civil Rights Movement

Netflix's new movie Rustin tells a powerful story of a long-earased civil rights activist. He finally gets a chance to shine.

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The Guardian - US

Islamophobia and antisemitism on rise in US amid Israel-Hamas war

Research shows increase in prejudice and hate as civil rights group condemns ‘unprecedented surge in bigotry’

The Independent UK

Decapitated baby doll is left under Free Palestine flag in Ohio

A Muslim civil rights group has called on police to investigate the incident as hate crime

The Independent UK

Department of Justice, civil rights group to appeal federal judge's ruling declaring DACA illegal

The U.S. Department of Justice and a civil rights group say they plan to appeal a federal judge’s recent ruling declaring illegal a revised version of a federal policy preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children

The Hindu

In Rajasthan, a manifesto from the people and for the people

A “people’s manifesto” released by civil rights groups ahead of the upcoming Assembly election in Rajasthan has called upon political parties to give the highest priority to citizens’ democratic rights.

The Independent UK

Justice Department opens probe of police in small Mississippi city over alleged civil rights abuses

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into alleged civil rights violations by police in a majority Black Mississippi city

The Independent UK

Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings

Some librarians who've been fired as they take a stand against discrimination and banning books are turning to a federal civil-rights enforcement agency for help

The Guardian - US

‘It’s a civil rights story’: how the New York City Marathon became a bastion of diversity

At the New York Historical Society, a new exhibition looks back at two Black men who changed the face of the city’s marathon

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