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Source: PBS News Hour Alabama Republicans asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to let them use a map that favors their party in this year's elections, despite a lower court's ruling that the map intentionally discriminates against Black people. Republican leaders filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after the lower court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that…

Source: United Press International - Health News Federal prosecutors are suing the University of California, alleging civil rights violations were committed in connection with pro-Palestinian campus protests—the latest lawsuit by the Trump administration, which has targeted universities over issues from anti-Semitism to their hiring practices. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, focuses on an encampment …

Attorney, speechwriter and confidante of King was involved in some of US civil rights movement’s key moments Clarence B Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of Martin Luther King who helped pen his famous “I have a dream” speech, has died. He was 95. Jones died on Friday at a senior living community in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Cupertino, according to a statement released by fam…

Recommended Citation Eric Miller, Violent White Exclusionary Destruction of Black Property is a Public Nuisance: The Tulsa Race Massacre and Beyond, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1007 () Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol94/iss4/3 Included in Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Courts Commons, Environmental Law Commons, Law and Race Commons, Legal Remedies Commons, Property Law and R…

Recommended Citation Chris Cox, The Shadow Corroboration Doctrine in Sexual Violence Cases, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 942 () Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol94/iss4/2 Included in Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Courts Commons, Judges Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Legal Remedies Commons, Litigation Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, Other La…

People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders Thousands of people from across the country descended on Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, on Saturday. They arrived by bus, by car and by plane to gather for the All Roads Lead to the South rally, following the supreme court’s Louisiana v Callais decision last month, which essentially …

Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections After the US supreme court essentially struck down another major provision of the Voting Rights Act, advocates and Democratic lawmakers have renewed a push in the states to enact their own versions of the landmark civil rights bill …

Latest ruling is culmination of Justices Roberts and Alito’s campaign to slowly but surely strangle efforts to protect democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation by two titans of the court’s …

Recommended Citation Dominic Roschival, Broadcasting Bigotry: A Proposal to Revive Group Defamation and Hold Modern Media Accountable for the Disparagement of Asian Americans, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 827 (2026) Available at: https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol94/iss3/7 Included in Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Constitutional Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, Law and Politics Commons…

On Wednesday, May 15, 2024, a bipartisan US Senate working group led by Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released a report titled "Driving U.S. Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States Senate." Just hours after the report was released, Justin Hendrix spoke to two civil rights advocates who are working on AI policy about the …

Michael Waterstone, a nationally recognized expert in disability and civil rights law, has been named dean of UCLA School of Law. The appointment brings Waterstone back to his alma mater: […] Source

February is Black History Month. Visit our website for information on related resources and virtual events. Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson, an archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO. Civil rights encompasses a broad range of activities that engage citizens of all backgrounds—the right to vote, to lawfully assemble, … Continue reading The Fight for…

Civil Rights attorney CHAI (pronounced "HI") FELDBLUM ("BLUM" pronounced like "plum"), visitin... Civil Rights attorney CHAI (pronounced "HI") FELDBLUM ("BLUM" pronounced like "plum"), visitin... Civil Rights attorney CHAI (pronounced "HI") FELDBLUM ("BLUM" pronounced like "plum"), visiting professor, Georgetown University law Center. She was also former legislative counsel, AIDS and Lesbian and …