civil rights
Trump embraces “ridiculous” mass deportation policy
July 30, 2015Trump says we round up and deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and he will do so because he knows how to manage.
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Boy Scouts of America to allow gay adult leaders
July 30, 2015The new policy, aimed at easing a controversy that has embroiled the Boy Scouts for years, takes effect immediately.
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Sandra Bland had the right to say “no”
July 24, 2015Some day organized dissent will change the system that allows cases like that of Sandra Bland to occur; let's make that day happen sooner rather than later.
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Sandra Bland’s jailers spinning autopsy results
July 24, 2015The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
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Jews, the civil rights movement, Israel: hot topics in Open HIllel tour
July 24, 2015In each of the campuses where they refused Open Hillel's request that we vets be permitted to speak, the Open Hillel students arranged alternative campus venues.
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