One of the things I do for my job at the LCCR is help "clip" articles from around the country relating to civil rights and related areas each morning. The articles are saved into del.icio.us and come up in a feed on our website. So I figure: so long as I've got all this stuff in front of me, why not share it with you?
All this is to announce what I hope to be a daily feature (at least through this summer): Civil Rights Roundup -- a collection of news stories related to civil and minority rights, all in one easy location. I hope to have it up each morning by 11:00 AM, but it might be earlier or later depending on my schedule.
So, without further ado....
The Boston Globe has an op-ed urging the creation of more English language classes to assist immigrants attempting to assimilate. They report 14,000 names on the waiting list for state-sponsored English programs.
L.A. Judge OKs Cops' not Asking Crime Victims, Witnesses About Immigration Status
Researchers are looking into reports that subprime mortgages were targeted at minority communities.
In "Flag City, USA", it's tough for Obama to break through the swamp of rumors surrounding him.
Thomas Atkins, a key civil rights leader in Boston who became the cities first black at-large city councilor, has died at age 69.
From the AP: "A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested by the FBI on Friday and charged with violating her civil rights."
Affirmative Action: Not a quota system, not judicial activism, not anti-meritocratic.
This is an interesting case: Authorities are investigating whether San Francisco is giving illegal immigrants taxpayer financed trips home -- without formally deporting them.
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