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Tag Archives: racial profiling
What Is Sikhism and Who Are Sikhs
The shooting at a community Sikh place of worship in Wisconsin yesterday is a real tragedy. Continue reading
Posted in Civil and Human Rights News
Tagged discrimination, hate crime, racial profiling, religious profiling, Sikh
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Civil Rights News: Medicaid Expansion May Lower Death Rates; One Million in PA Lack Voter ID; NYC’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Affects Achievement Gap
Compiled by David Seidman, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern Medicaid Expansion May Lower Death Rates, Study Says The New York Times A recent study by Harvard researchers found that when states expanded Medicaid coverage – government subsidized … Continue reading
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Tagged health care, medicaid, racial profiling, stop and frisk, voter id, voting rights
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Civil Rights News: AZ Sheriff Arpaio in Court; ACA Ruling May Leave 3 Million Without Coverage; Advocates Seeking to Block PA Voter ID Law
Compiled by Jaimie Woo, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern. Confronted in Court With This Own Words, Sheriff Denies Profiling Fernanda Santos The New York Times Arizona sheriff, Joseph M. Arpaio, who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” is … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination, health care, poverty, racial profiling, voting rights
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Civil Rights News: Experts Say Racial Profiling Difficult to Prove; ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Michigan School; Fixing a Regulation to Curb Excessive Lending at For-Profit Schools
Compiled by Jaimie Woo, a Summer 2012 Leadership Conference Education Fund Intern Racial Profiling Difficult to Prove, Experts Say Alan Gomez USA Today The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a key provision of Arizona’s immigration law has faced criticism … Continue reading
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Tagged education, immigration, predatory lending, racial profiling, sb
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Civil Rights News: NJ Muslim Organizations File Federal Suit Over NYPD Surveillance Programs; Fear Prevents Migrant Workers From Seeking Health Care; Obama Administration Pushes for Transparency on College Loans
Compiled by David Seidman, a Summer 2012 intern at The Leadership Conference Education Fund NJ Muslims file federal suit to stop NYPD spying Eileen Sullivan Associated Press On Wednesday, a group of eight Muslims represented by Muslim Advocates, a California-based … Continue reading
Ending ‘Stop and Frisk” in New York City
Two advocates with the NAACP have an op-ed in Huffington Post today encouraging people to support the organization’s efforts alongside the National Action Network to end New York City’s policy of “stop and frisk”, which disproportionately affects Black and Latino men. Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice
Tagged criminal justice, discrimination, racial profiling, stop and frisk
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From Bad to Worse, Alabama’s H.B. 658
Just when you didn’t think it was possible for life to get any harderfor immigrants and Latinos in Alabama. Last week, after Gov. Robert Bentley signaled that he had serious concerns with H.B. 658 and wanted the legislature to correct it’s mistakes during a special legislative session. He reversed his decision by pandering to the worst elements of the legislature and made the worst anti-immigrant law in America even worse by signing the bill into law. Continue reading
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Tagged ethnic profiling, immigration, racial profiling
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