/civil-rights/index.rss Read about civil rights policy and politics, human rights, reproductive freedom, immigration, privacy, gender and sexuality, race and representation en-us Copyright 2025 | casino world | All Rights Reserved Thu, 01 May 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Daniel Boguslaw Three cities have canceled federal-state Joint Terrorism Task Force partnerships for intelligence-gathering, which are being wielded to suppress dissent in the Trump era. /civil-rights/2025-05-01-policing-cities-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force/ /civil-rights/2025-05-01-policing-cities-fbi-joint-terrorism-task-force/ Thu, 01 May 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Joint Terrorism Task Force 050125.jpg Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle via AP Robert Kuttner The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government. /civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/ /civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000 APR25 Kuttner home.jpg Robert Kuttner How shall we redeem the deferred promise of civil rights and racial justice? /civil-rights/2025-03-27-conversation-with-randall-kennedy/ /civil-rights/2025-03-27-conversation-with-randall-kennedy/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 APR25 Kennedy interview.jpg Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw The lone civilian representative overseeing a sprawling partnership between the federal government and the NYPD says that officers are avoiding guidelines in place for 40 years. /civil-rights/2025-03-06-intelligence-bureau-watchdog-warns-fbi-overreach-new-york-policing/ /civil-rights/2025-03-06-intelligence-bureau-watchdog-warns-fbi-overreach-new-york-policing/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Boguslaw-NYPD counterterrorism 030625.jpg Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Robert Kuttner If he is the next president, we could see civil disobedience on an unprecedented scale. Better to keep him out of the White House in the first place. /civil-rights/2024-07-09-could-trump-dictatorship-be-resisted/ /civil-rights/2024-07-09-could-trump-dictatorship-be-resisted/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:20:00 -0000 Kuttner-Trump 070924.jpg Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Alissa Quart Journalist Linda Tirado is dying after being shot by cops while covering the George Floyd protests. Her work told the story of poverty from the inside out. /civil-rights/2024-06-21-fighter-working-class-linda-tirado/ /civil-rights/2024-06-21-fighter-working-class-linda-tirado/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0000 Quart-Linda Tirado 062124.png WCCO-TV Hassan Ali Kanu We still need federal intervention to drag some jurisdictions out of Jim Crow–era policing. /civil-rights/2024-06-17-mississippi-justice-american-shame/ /civil-rights/2024-06-17-mississippi-justice-american-shame/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0000 Kanu-MS Rankin County 061424.jpg Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo Robert Kuttner Not entirely, but name me a place where Jews are safer. /civil-rights/2024-03-12-are-jews-safe-in-america/ /civil-rights/2024-03-12-are-jews-safe-in-america/ Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:20:00 -0000 Kuttner-Antisemitism 031224.jpg Lev Radin/Sipa USA via AP Images Gabrielle Gurley The FCC bans AI-generated robocalls, but deepfakes and other tactics could still disrupt the voting season. /civil-rights/2014-02-15-q-a-election-2024-fake-out/ /civil-rights/2014-02-15-q-a-election-2024-fake-out/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:55:00 -0000 Gurley-deepfake 021524.jpg Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, File Ramenda Cyrus The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it. /civil-rights/2024-02-05-assaults-on-right-to-vote/ /civil-rights/2024-02-05-assaults-on-right-to-vote/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:15:00 -0000 FEB24 Cyrus.jpeg Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP David Dayen The caucus is recommending that members vote against the perennial defense authorization bill, in part because it could extend warrantless spying through this Congress. /civil-rights/2023-12-13-progressive-caucus-defense-bill-fisa-extension/ /civil-rights/2023-12-13-progressive-caucus-defense-bill-fisa-extension/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:00:00 -0000 Dayen-NDAA 121323.jpg Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images David Dayen Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill. /civil-rights/2023-12-12-mike-johnson-ndaa-surveillance-reform/ /civil-rights/2023-12-12-mike-johnson-ndaa-surveillance-reform/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:15:00 -0000 mike johnson 12112023.jpg Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Gabrielle Gurley Another African American dies in Mobile, as police shootings multiply in Alabama. /civil-rights/2023-12-07-police-killings-alabama-jawan-dallas/ /civil-rights/2023-12-07-police-killings-alabama-jawan-dallas/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:30:00 -0000 Gurley-Jawan Dallas 120723.png WPMI Michael Reich Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path. /civil-rights/2023-08-30-how-march-on-washington-changed-me/ /civil-rights/2023-08-30-how-march-on-washington-changed-me/ Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0000 Reich-March on Washington 083023.jpg AP Photo Ryan Cooper Only national policy can protect all vulnerable Americans from right-wing oppression. /civil-rights/2023-03-23-federal-law-trans-rights/ /civil-rights/2023-03-23-federal-law-trans-rights/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Trans rights 032323.jpg Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo Robert Kuttner We need coalitions of conscience now more than ever. /civil-rights/2023-01-16-martin-luther-king-multiracial-justice-sculpture/ /civil-rights/2023-01-16-martin-luther-king-multiracial-justice-sculpture/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:30:00 -0000 Kuttner-MLK 011623.jpg Steven Senne/AP Photo Gabrielle Gurley Opposition to making lynching a federal offense finally dissolves as Emmett Till’s family continues to seek justice. /civil-rights/lynching-is-now-a-federal-crime/ /civil-rights/lynching-is-now-a-federal-crime/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:20:00 -0000 GURLEYLynchinglaw.jpg Alex Brandon/AP Photo Gabrielle Gurley Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin displays his Trumpist credentials. /civil-rights/red-alert-in-virginia/ /civil-rights/red-alert-in-virginia/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:15:00 -0000 Gurley-VA Youngkin-2252022.jpg Steve Helber/AP Photo Gabrielle Gurley Mitch McConnell reminded us that Americans often have trouble with the reality of fully American Black people. Expect more such flare-ups in the new Supreme Court fight. /civil-rights/on-being-american/ /civil-rights/on-being-american/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:10:00 -0000 GurleyBeingAmerican.jpg Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP Robert Kuttner That arc of the moral universe is looking especially long right now—but one can also tell a more hopeful story. /civil-rights/sobering-mlk-day/ /civil-rights/sobering-mlk-day/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:15:00 -0000 Kuttner on Tap 011722.jpg Susan Walsh/AP Photo Julia Knoerr The Voting Rights Act’s language minority provisions remain in force, but that doesn’t mean Latino voters receive the Spanish-language materials they need. /civil-rights/challenging-georgia-on-latino-voting-rights/ /civil-rights/challenging-georgia-on-latino-voting-rights/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 10:15:00 -0000 KnoerrGALatinoVoters11262021.jpg Jeff Amy/AP Photo Randall Kennedy How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights. /civil-rights/right-wing-attack-on-racial-justice-talk/ /civil-rights/right-wing-attack-on-racial-justice-talk/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:30:00 -0000 SO21 Kennedy home.jpg Illustration by Daniel Zender David Armiak New insights into its model bills on voting restrictions /civil-rights/alec-lied-about-its-work-on-election-suppression-bills/ /civil-rights/alec-lied-about-its-work-on-election-suppression-bills/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:01:00 -0000 Armiak-Alec 090221.jpg Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via AP Images Luis Feliz Leon Sixty years ago, activists boarded buses to ride through the South to demand voting rights for Blacks. Today, their successors have been compelled to do it again. /civil-rights/new-freedom-rides-black-voting-rights-suppression/ /civil-rights/new-freedom-rides-black-voting-rights-suppression/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:00:00 -0000 Leon-New freedom riders 062921.jpg Vasha Hunt/AP Photo Brittany Gibson Amid stalled voting rights legislation in Congress, mass mobilization may be needed to provoke action. /civil-rights/return-of-freedom-summer-voting-rights/ /civil-rights/return-of-freedom-summer-voting-rights/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:10:00 -0000 Gibson-Voting rights 060221.jpg Susan Walsh/AP Photo Harold Meyerson On the indispensability of smart, militant movements /civil-rights/how-we-got-to-a-just-verdict-derek-chavin-george-floyd/ /civil-rights/how-we-got-to-a-just-verdict-derek-chavin-george-floyd/ Tue, 20 Apr 2021 23:17:00 -0000 Meyerson-Chauvin verdict 042021.jpg Morry Gash/AP Photo Amelia Pollard Tear down a Confederate flag in Florida and a protester could be headed to prison. It’s all part of the same national movement to silence dissent in the wake of the George Floyd uprising. /civil-rights/florida-is-latest-hot-spot-for-anti-protest-legislation/ /civil-rights/florida-is-latest-hot-spot-for-anti-protest-legislation/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:10:00 -0000 Pollard-Anti-Protest bills 041421.jpg Martha Asencio-Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP Patrick Parr An iconic photograph captured the Washington meeting of these two titans as the Senate debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. /civil-rights/malcolm-x-and-martin-luther-king-jr-shake-hands/ /civil-rights/malcolm-x-and-martin-luther-king-jr-shake-hands/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:10:00 -0000 Parr-Malcolm-Martin 022621 feature.jpg Library of Congress Robert Kuttner What it is—and what it never was /civil-rights/on-civil-disobedience-electoral-college-protests/ /civil-rights/on-civil-disobedience-electoral-college-protests/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:15:35 -0000 Kuttner-Civil disobedience 011521.jpg Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo Angelika Albaladejo Dorian Warren explains how Black America voted strategically and made Biden-Harris a reality. /civil-rights/black-voters-say-youre-welcome-america/ /civil-rights/black-voters-say-youre-welcome-america/ Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:15:00 -0000 CapMain-Walker.jpg Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images