Department of Justice Office of Public AffairsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, August 1, 2011 Justice Department Settles Employment Discrimination Lawsuit Against the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) that, if approved by the […]
American Post Racial? Not Quite — how about racial forgetful?
Young Emmett Till, murdered Aug. 28, 1955 in the Mississippi Delta. “The reactions to Attorney General Eric Holder’s pronouncement in February 2009 that America is a “nation of cowards” when it comes to racial matters largely seemed to prove his point. Dismissing Holder as “needlessly provocative,” America retreated back into its corner and turned its […]
The Commission on Civil Rights approves motion asking Congress allow it to take Justice Department to court if it refuses to enforce commission’s subpoenas and other “lawful requests”
ABC News/Politics The Commission and Agency Have Clashed Over the Case of the New Black Panther PartyThe Commission on Civil Rights has approved a motion asking Congress to essentially allow it to take the Justice Department to court if it refuses to enforce the commission’s subpoenas and other “lawful requests” pertaining to a lawsuit against […]
Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Urges Mass Support for the Gray-Haired Witnesses Fast for Justice
Contact: Nancy LockhartJune 4, 2010 at 8:28amSubject: DICK GREGORY Urges Mass Support for the Gray-Haired Witnesses Fast for Justice ~ By Sis. Marpessa P r e s s R e l e a s e Contacts: B.J. Janice Peak-Graham / Marpessa Kupendua 1- 866-968-1188, Ext. 2 ghwitnesses@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/l/787a2;www.grayhairedwitnesses.blogspot.com/ WASHINGTON, June 3/Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice News […]
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act; Sykes wants to meet with U.S. AG Eric Holder to set Act in motion; needs financial support
Alvin Sykes, seeks justice for Emmett Till Mary SanchezThe Kansas City Star So you might think that Alvin Sykes is a desperate man these days. He knows that each passing day is another lost in his nearly decade-long crusade to solve civil rights era murders. He’s already done what few could fathom, helping persuade federal […]
US Attorney General-Elect Eric Holder Will Have to Hit Ground Running
Oakland, CA. January 1, first day of 2009. 22-year-old Oscar Grant III was murdered in cold blood—shot in the back by a cop as he lay on a BART train platform. Yet another Black youth killed by the police. But this time in front of dozens of people. And this time captured on cell phones […]
Eric Holder ‘Bold Choice’ for Attorney General
Attorney General ‘bold choice’ for civil rightsBy Hazel Trice EdneyNNPA Editor-in-Chief Civil rights leaders across the nation are characterizing the nomination of former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder for the spot of U.S. attorney general as a “bold choice” for prospective upgrades in civil rights and criminal justice laws that have long hindered Black progress. […]