civil rights

October 11, 2007 - A U.S.-based legal team today filed a civil lawsuit [PDF] against Blackwater USA, the North Carolina-based private security contractor whose employees were involved in a Sept.

May 24, 2007 - Last week, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the "Rosa Parks Act", which "expunges public records of persons charged with a misdemeanor or felony while challenging a law designed to maintain racial segregation or discrimination."

May 16, 2006 - The Voting Rights Act extension sailed through the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee 33-1 last week and was on its way to the floor for a vote.

May 4, 2005 - Via Political Wire, we find this nugget from CNN's Inside Politics:

December 1, 1999 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 27 No. 4, "Standing Out." Find more from that issue here.

December 1, 1999 - Despite recent gains, gay and lesbian people have few legal protections

November 1, 1995 - The Dallas Office of Civil Rights knows about discrimination and harassment — all too well.