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Justice Department Sues Arizona Sheriff in Civil Rights Probe The Justice Department sued Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, on Thursday, saying his office has repeatedly declined to hand over documents to federal investigators examining whether his aggressive tactics against illegal immigrants have violated their civil rights, the Washington Post reports. Arpaio, who ...

Reclaim the Dream Rally Will Counter Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally Forty-seven-years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washing for Jobs and Freedom reminding America of the "fierce urgency of now." This year, members of the Congressional Black Caucus as well as numerous black leaders plan to hold another rally called "Reclaiming the Dream" in order to remind Americans that there is still much left to do. ...

Mississippi student council segregated by race - whites rule, blacks serve Black kids are banned from the presidency and 2010 looks a lot like 1960. ...

Homophobia isn't just a black thing The notion that all African Americans are homophobes is just another stereotype about blacks ...

Sen. Jim Webb is preaching Civil Rights that don’t sound right He's a Democrat pushing the GOP's false narrative of the government helping minorities more than they help whites. ...

Historian Stages Sleep-Ins to Save SC Slave Cabins The Associated Press reports that when Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery. "If I were a firm believer in ghosts and spirits and things of that nature, I don't think I could do this," said McGill, a pr ...

Civil rights laws do not protect whites? According to Black Voices a former lawyer for the Justice Department claims that the rights of white voters are often ignored and only minorities are protected by our nation’s civil rights laws. Apparently charges of voter discrimination against two Black Party members were dropped because civil rights laws are applied unequally to whites. ...

Ex-Justice Dept Lawyer Claims 'Whites' Rights Are Ignored by DOJ The Associated Press reports that witnesses described an ugly scene: Two members of the New Black Panther Party threatening white voters the day Barack Obama was elected president, flinging insults like "white devil" and "you're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker." The fallout from the case has become even uglier. Most charges against the men were dropped for lack of evidence, the U.S. Justice Department says. Now a former Justice Department lawyer is ...

Art Exhibition In New York Displays Images Of The Struggle For Civil Rights An exhibition called “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights” at the International Center of Photography is in New York to give some answers, backed up by a second show, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The New York Times reports there are plenty of photographs, though few framed prints. Instead they are in newspapers, magazines and brochures and o ...

Texas Conservatives Try to Whitewash Slavery From Textbooks The Associated Press reports that public school students in Texas would be required to evaluate efforts by global organizations to undermine U.S. sovereignty in one of a series of changes that conservatives on the State Board of Education made Thursday to new social studies guidelines. ...