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The National Park Service expands its African-American history sites

The National Park Service is trying to include more Black history into the story of America. Some of the proposed sites are painful, others are controversial.

WEKU

The 10 Weirdest Milestones In LGBTQ History

June is Pride Month for the LGBTQ community, and this observance encompasses both a poignant look back at the very long and often tumultuous struggle for full civil rights and a jubilant consideration of current victories and future goals in the fight for equality.

Benzinga

A federal law requires translated voting ballots, but not in Arabic or Haitian Creole

The Voting Rights Act requires some states and local areas to offer election materials in more than just English. But the support for voters is limited to Spanish, Asian and Native American languages.

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At Pride, celebrations amid a darker national environment

Pride commemorations that sometimes have felt like victory parties for civil rights advances are grappling with a darker atmosphere this year

The Independent UK

Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk to Nebraska tribe

Harvard has returned a tomahawk once owned by a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to his tribe

The Independent UK

2 boys allegedly killed by adoptive parents were illegally taken from mother, suit alleges

The biological family of two boys who authorities say were killed by their adoptive parents have filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations and wrongful death.

Los Angeles Times

From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is approaching a reckoning

Happy the elephant’s story is a sad one. She is currently a resident of the Bronx Zoo in the US, where the Nonhuman Rights Project (a civil rights organisation) claims she is subject to unlawful detention. The campaigners sought a writ of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf to request that…

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In honor of Juneteenth, New York enacts John Lewis Voting Rights Act to combat suppression and discrimination

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York celebrated Juneteenth and paid tribute to the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis on Monday by enacting sweeping new voter protections.

Tribune News Service

As she prepares to leave Congress, Eddie Bernice Johnson fears a rollback in the civil rights she fought decades to advance

Johnson’s barrier-breaking political career started in the heart of deeply segregated Texas. She is nearing the end of her 15th — and last — term representing Dallas. In January, she will retire.

The Texas Tribune

John Legend says Black people need to own ‘narrative’ of their stories as he condemns battle over books

John Legend spoke on stage alongside civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton and New York film director Spiek Lee at the Tribeca Film Festival on the eve of Juneteenth

The Independent UK

Rev Al Sharpton speaks about progress in civil rights on Juneteenth: ‘We’re not out of the woods yet’

‘I’ve lived long enough to see some things... I’ve seen enough victories to know that we can win,’ he said

The Independent UK

Vincent Chin was killed 40 years ago. Here's why his case continues to resonate

Forty years have passed since Vincent Chin was killed. But today's wave of hate incidents against Asian Americans make what happened in 1982 even more relevant in the fight for civil rights.

WEKU

Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously

The Independent UK

Commentary: The collisions between sports and politics underscore our need for tolerance of dissent

The intersection of sports and politics has occasionally been fraught with controversy. Amid the civil rights movement, Muhammad Ali was briefly banned from boxing for his stance on the Vietnam War. Tommie Smith and John Carlos were subject to significant criticism for raising their fists in a salute to Black…

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Biden officials may change how the U.S. defines racial and ethnic groups by 2024

The Biden administration is starting a process that could change how the U.S. census and federal surveys produce racial and ethnic data that is used for redistricting and civil rights enforcement.

The Independent UK

Spy agencies' focus on China could snare Chinese Americans

China is the foremost challenge for U.S. national security agencies, a so-called “hard target” that is America’s chief rival for global dominance

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris warns overturning Roe could lead to ‘challenges’ to same-sex marriage and birth control

Legal scholars and civil rights groups have warned that data privacy protections, marriage equality and LGBT+ rights could be at risk with Supreme Court decision

Reason

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?

His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.

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The Independent UK

Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.

It has been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law by President Nixon

The Independent UK

Lawsuit: Death of Black teen at juvenile center foreshadowed

A federal civil rights lawsuit says the death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed by a 2016 state inspection of the facility that noted systemic deficiencies in its handling of children with mental health issues

The Guardian - US

‘None of this was a given’: 50 years of Title IX and fighting for equality in US education

In 1972, a civil rights law was introduced to prohibit sex discrimination in US schools and colleges but a new exhibition shows that the work continues

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Title IX explained: Here’s what to know about the landmark law that has impacted sports for 50 years

PHILADELPHIA — When Title IX was signed into law 50 years ago, sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs officially became illegal.

Al Jazeera

Biden administration opens civil rights probe of Louisiana police

US investigation will focus on whether state police regularly use excessive force, discriminate against Black people.

The Guardian - US

US justice department to investigate Louisiana State Police following 2019 death of Ronald Greene

Justice department launches civil rights investigation after beatings and death of a Black man placed in a chokehold

Sports Illustrated

50 Years of Title IX: The Defining Moments of Women’s Sports

From the bill’s inception to the U.S. women’s national team’s equal pay settlement, a timeline of the growth (and the hurdles) within women’s sports so far.

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