Protesters at city hall defend migrant rights | News

Police escorts accompanied around 80 to 100 protesters, marched peacefully to Flagstaff City Hall, chanting criticism of President Donald Trump’s border policies, immigrant raids and individual targets for Native Americans. Ta. Protesters marched north on San Francisco Avenue from the university union, then turned west of Birch Avenue and headed south on Humphreys Avenue to […]

The Tennessee politicians, civil rights leaders lost in 2024 • Tennessee Lookout

James Lawson Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the civil rights movement who trained many activists during his time in Nashville, died in June at the age of 95 after cardiac arrest. Lawson, a native of Ohio, worked as an Indian Methodist missionary, studied non-violent resistance techniques defended by Indian lawyer and anti-colonial activist Mahatma […]

Fayette Co. diluted Black voting power, violated Voting Rights Act in 2021 redistricting • Tennessee Lookout

NASHVILLE – Fayette County commissioners violated the Voting Rights Act with the adoption of a 2021 rezoning plan that stripped black voters of equal opportunity, the U.S. Department of Justice The lawsuit was filed Wednesday. “The county board intentionally rejected multiple district plans that would have combined the district’s black communities that allowed black voters […]

MARC WHEAT: Will Supreme Court Defend Rights Of Parents?

Just a century ago this year, the Supreme Court in its decision Piercev. Societyof Sisters, Recognizing the parents’ right to direct their child’s education, he writes “.[t]His fundamental theory of freedom excludes the general power of the state to standardize its children by all governments of this union. . . Children are more than just […]

Trump names California GOP’s Harmeet Dhillon for civil rights post

Harmeet Dhillon, one of California’s most prominent Republican operatives, a cultural activist who opposes “woke” politics and an ardent defender of President-elect Donald Trump, said on Monday: He was nominated by Trump to the top post in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed, Dillon would be the second woman […]

Trump names California GOP’s Harmeet Dhillon for civil rights post

Harmeet Dhillon, one of California’s most prominent Republican operatives, a cultural activist who opposes “woke” politics and an ardent defender of President-elect Donald Trump, said on Monday: He was nominated by Trump to the top post in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice. If confirmed, Dillon would be the second woman […]