Civil Rights

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Civil Rights

First Reported 11 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 8 Documents

The NAACP’s relevance step

WASHINGTON — With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality. The nation’s most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again.The NAACP’s 64-member board approved a resolution ... [ Published 2 hours ago by Orangeburg Times and Democrat ]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., African-Americans, Gay, Benjamin Jealous, Civil Rights

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated 17 hours ago - 19 Documents

Remarks by NAACP National on Marriage Equality: One of the Key Civil Rights Struggles of Our Time

The race-baiting, divisive people behind the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council take note. The NAACP is not having your wedge strategy. Today the national NAACP held a press conference; here are the remarks. Remarks ... [ Published 17 hours ago by Firedoglake ]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Civil Rights, Equality

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated 18 hours ago - 3 Documents

NAACP Marriage Equality Is a Civil Right

On Saturday the board of the NAACP endorsed marriage equality in a nearunanimous vote by the 64member body only two members voted against the resolution On Monday the civil rights organizations chairman and president held a press conference to clarif ... [ Published 18 hours ago by New America Media ]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Marriage Equality USA, Civil Rights

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 2 Documents

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NAACP chief: Marriage equality is a civil right

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Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Civil Rights

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated 22 hours ago - 9 Documents

Barack Obama

NAACP enters the gay marriage fray

As I predicted, this being a presidential election cycle, things are getting more bizarre by the moment.According to the Los Angeles Times this weekend, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has come out and publicly supported ... [ Published 23 hours ago by Examiner.com ]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Gay, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 3 Documents

NAACP's Endorsement of Same-Sex Marriage Shows Its Fidelity to the Event of Black Civil Rights

LA Times :In a move that some called historic, the county’s oldest African American civil rights group voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage. The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People passed a resolution supporting gay marriage ... [ Published May 21 2012 by The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper ]

Entities: Civil Rights, National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Same-Sex Marriage

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 3 Documents

Gloria Allred

'Herstoric' win for sex-change beauty

Talackova, 23, pictured, became the first sex-change contestant in the Miss Universe Canada pageant - at least the first that organizers know of.The Miss Universe Organization had slammed the door on the Vancouver native for having been born a male and ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Hong Kong Standard ]

Entities: Sahar Biniaz, Gloria Allred, Miss Universe Canada, Miss Universe

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 4 Documents

Seeing red: why Pilger is wrong on gay marriage

The American civil rights movement was a colourful but hollow distraction from the far more important issue of America's war in Vietnam, and that is why presidents Kennedy and Johnson supported it.If you find this statement trite, offensive and wrong ... [ Published May 21 2012 by ABC Online ]

Entities: John Pilger, Gay, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 3 Documents

Gay Rights In America: Gays May Have Fastest Of All Civil Rights Movements

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites. The response was overwhelming: 94% were opposed, a sentiment that held for decades. It took nearly 40 years until a majority ... [ Published May 21 2012 by The Huffington Post | Full News Feed ]

Entities: Gay, Gay Rights, Civil Rights

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 2 Documents

2012 Conference on Law Enforcement and Civil Rights

U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon introduces the keynote speaker during the 2012 conference on Law Enforcement and Civil Rights: Civil Rights for Everyone, at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Sunday, May 20, 2012. The conference is a free event that ... [ Published May 21 2012 by al.com ]

Entities: Civil Rights, Birmingham, Jeff Roberts, District Judge, Federal Bureau of Investigation

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 16 Documents

US black civil rights group, NAACP, endorses equal marriage

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has passed a resolution yesterday endorsing equal marriage, two weeks following President Obama's move to do so. ... [ Published May 20 2012 by Pink News ]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Civil Rights, Barack Obama

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 9 Documents

President Obama contradicts self in empathy vs. rights argument

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. Thats essentially the case President Barack ... [ Published May 20 2012 by News-Press.com ]

Entities: Barack Obama, Gay, Civil Rights, Heterosexuality

Quotes

...The report called the disparity "so severe and so divergent from nationally reported data that it cannot plausibly be attributed entirely to the underlying rates at which these youth commit crimes."

Black, white arrest disparities don't reflect reality: Jarvis DeBerry [NOLA Live - 1 hour ago]

University spokesperson Erica Taylor said, "At this time, S C State University has no comment."

S.C. State professor claims he was told to redirect grant funds [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]

...lawyers Monday produced documents stating that Del Rio was a military veteran with a high security clearance who later worked as a part-time . "He guarded the council 22 years, and now nobody's guarding his rights" lawyer Mack Ray Hernandez said

Joe Del RIo is suing Austin for seizing his house because of his bunker [Examiner.com - 1 hour ago]

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Hawaii turns tables on Arizona Secretary of Sta... [ Published 1 hour ago by Raw Story ] Topics: Arizona Secretary of State ♦ President Barack Obama ♦ President ObamaHawaiian officials have apparently had enough of your requests for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and they’re not afraid to tell you where to get off, even if you ...
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Audio/Video

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Civil rights leader promotes nonviolence [ Published May 21 2012 by CNN.com - Video ]
Abused Wife Gets 20-Year Prison Sentence For Fi... [ Published May 15 2012 by The Young Turks - YouTube ]
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