Justice

October 17, 2008 - The Associated Press is reporting that the NAACP will have lawyers targeting 750 precincts around the country where there has been a history of voter discrimination on Nov. 4, with plans to address complaints about possible voter disenfranchisement wherever they are made.

October 10, 2008 - Public Policy Polling has an interesting new study out that bucks the media storyline about why Barack Obama is making gains in Southern states like Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.

September 23, 2008 - Activists and lawyers are scrambling to get an 11th-hour stay of execution for a Georgia man due to be put to death tonight, despite strong doubts over his conviction, reports the AFP.

September 16, 2008 - Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas yesterday ordered city employees not to talk to reporters, the Galveston County Daily News reports.

September 11, 2008 - This week a federal appeals court overturned the conviction of reputed Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale, who was serving three life sentences for his role in the 1964 abduction and killing of Charles E. Moore and Henry H. Dee, two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi. Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, was convicted in June 2007 on kidnapping and conspiracy charges but the 5th U.S.

September 4, 2008 - Five farm bosses have pleaded guilty to charges of enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan nationals as agricultural workers in southwest Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.

August 28, 2008 - Today marks the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, spoken at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King gave his landmark speech during the March on Washington for jobs, justice and civil rights before a crowd of more than 250,000 people.