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Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.
An exhibit organized by Memorialize the Movement displays 2020 protest art from Minneapolis. Leesa Kelly/Memorialize the Movement Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon ...
That was the premise behind the Capitol Crawl, a now-iconic protest to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA was a landmark civil rights bill aimed at providing basic ...
WASHINGTON — In a crucial win for the First Amendment right to protest, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana ruled in favor of DeRay Mckesson, a prominent civil rights activist ...
Ilana Trachtman excavates a powerful shard of D.C. social history in “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” an illuminating chronicle of a germinal moment in civil rights history. In 1960 ...
That’s according to research compiled by Ian Mance, a civil rights attorney with Emancipate ... gathered at a local restaurant for a sit-in to protest segregation, according to Mance’s research.
Amid the protest of hundreds of Iowans gathered in the state Capitol building, Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill that would eliminate civil rights protections for transgender people. The legislation, ...