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07/19/11 As the Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial nears its dedication in Washington, a nation remembers a pioneer of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. King's devotion to nonviolent protest in the face of vitriol and murder earned him a Nobel Peace Prize but it also took his life when King was assassinated.
07/17/11 ATLANTA --- As if 25 years in Congress isn't enough to make a person unbeatable for re-election, John Lewis also has the distinction of being an historic leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
07/13/11 COEUR d'ALENE - Complaints recently received by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights allege that seven Kootenai County high schools are among 100 Idaho schools that are failing to comply with Title IX, a federal law designed to ensure equal athletic opportunities exist for female students.
07/13/11 MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Civil Rights Museum has five new members joining the Board of Directors effective July 1, 2011.
07/13/11 BOISE, Idaho -- The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights in Seattle is looking into allegations of Title IX violations at 100 high schools across Idaho. According to 600 pages of complaints dated June 23, schools in 78 out of the state's 115 school districts have been accused of not providing female athletes equal opportunities to play sports. read more
07/07/11 New data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights is designed to look for patterns of inequity in access to rigorous college-prep courses. It finds that fewer than 1 percent of Oregon's black high school students took calculus during 2009-10 -- in some cases because the school didn't offer it.
07/02/11 If you follow education at all you don't need a database to tell you that there are huge gaps in access to AP classes and resources between students attending schools in rich neighborhoods and those in poor neighborhoods. But sometimes we need a kick in the pants to remind us exactly how deep and wide the disparities really are. Indeed, that's exactly what the Civil Rights Data Collection , a ...
06/28/11 UALR's Department of History and the university's new Institute on Race and Ethnicity will host the symposium, "Sit-Ins, Freedom Rides, and Beyond: Direct Action and Civil Rights in 1960s Arkansas" from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 West 9th St. in downtown Little Rock to explore the state's struggle for civil rights beyond the 1957 crisis at ...
06/21/11 Citing alack of living witnesses and suspects, the Jackson County Prosecutor's office finally cleared the Civil Rights-era Leon Jordan murder case.
06/19/11 Recent federal actions have served as warnings to hospitals, insurance plans and any companies that traffic in private health data. In February, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights fined Maryland insurer Cignet Health $4.3 million for failing to give medical records to patients who wanted them.
06/17/11 The Delta offers a rich history and much can be learned from the its part in the Civil Rights movement.
06/15/11 Students from Solano Community College in Fairfield, Calif. stopped in Clarksdale on their tour of parts of Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee during their summer Civil Rights Travel Course.
06/05/11 Wendell Smith is not a well-known name in the Civil Rights Movement. He did not possess the oratory of Martin Luther King Jr. or the legal acumen of Thurgood Marshall. He was not among the front-and-center leaders laying the foundation for change in a society that was rampant with racism. Wendell Smith's contribution was his journalistic skill.
05/29/11 Stuart Jackson Nunnally, a Methodist minister who fought to end segregation during the Civil Rights movement, died this morning. Nunnally, who battled kidney failure, was 77.
05/25/11 (NNPA) New York, NY - Speaking at a screening of the PBS documentary ''Freedom Riders'' in midtown Manhattan, George Holmes, Executive Director of the Congress of Racial Equality - CORE called the Freedom Rides ''one of the most significant events of the Civil Rights Movement in America and an important part of our country's history.''
05/19/11 Wed, 06/08/2011 - 5:30pm On Wednesday, June 8, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., the Boston Branch NAACP will hosting a Racial Discrimination Training at the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, located at 650 Dudley Street,Dorchester. The training is co-sponsored with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts' Young Professional's Network (YPN) and the Fair ...
05/16/11 Carlos Santana on Sunday used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws.
05/16/11 ATLANTA (AP) - Carlos Santana on Sunday used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws.
05/16/11 It was supposed to be an acceptance speech for an honor awarded to iconic guitarist Carlos Santana by Major League Baseball, at the league's fifth annual Civil Rights Game on Sunday. Given the nature of the medal -- the 'Beacon of Change Award' -- it should come as little surprise that Santana would use the speech to get a little political. But he still caught most baseball fans at the game off ...
05/15/11 ATLANTA - Carlos Santana on Sunday used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws.
05/15/11 Sunday's MLB news briefs: Grammy-winning musician Carlos Santana used baseball's annual Civil Rights Game as a platform to admonish Georgia and Arizona for their new immigration laws. | 
