Long Island advocates and police reform activists decry Trump administration directive to stop civil rights investigations
The Trump administration, in a memo, instructed lawyers in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division not to file any new complaints, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
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Federal Workers Ordered to Report on Colleagues Over D.E.I. Crackdown
Dariely Rodriguez, the acting co-chief counsel for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ... Burns, the diversity office had provided training to intelligence officers on fostering ...
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Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey
Charles Rangel of New York introduced resolutions, highlighting alleged injustices against the former civil rights leader in ... defects of temperament and training." Jamaican born African ...
The New York Times2d
Justice Department Orders a Halt to Civil Rights Work
By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or ... the document viewed by The New York Times.
New York Post2d
Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders freeze on civil rights cases
President Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and ... agreement to overhaul the city’s police training and use-of-force policies in the ...
New York Daily News6d
Rename MLK Day to be National Civil Rights Day
National Civil Rights Day would also preserve the names of multiple unwitting catalysts for changes in police procedures. Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner ...
New York county agrees to redraw voting lines that lawsuit said disenfranchised residents of color
A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised ...
The Boston Globe3d
Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation ... overhaul the city’s police training and use-of-force policies ...
NY joins legal challenge to protect 14th Amendment birthright citizenship rights
Executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 are being legally challenged by civil rights unions, ...
The Washington Post3d
Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division
The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...
Afro1d
Ben Crump speaks at NNPA Midwinter Training Conference
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump emphasizes the importance of preserving the freedom and power of the Black press in the fight ...
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Trump inaugurated on MLK Day: How should civil rights be advanced in this new era?
Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon. These concerns are further exacerbated by fears of the new president's views ...