Civil Rights Law 
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Draws Attention of Justice Deparment – YAHOO!
Because the law requires voters to show valid photo identification at the polls, civil rights groups fear the new law will disproportionately affect minorities, students, and the poor. Those concerns led to the ACLU filing a lawsuit seeking to …
Civil-rights activists with state ties honored – Arkansas Online
LITTLE ROCK — The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives honored civil-rights activists with Arkansas ties Tuesday morning during its awards breakfast. Former Little Rock Mayor Lottie Shackelford; former U.S. Surgeon General …
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Under Investigation; Justice Department To Determine If Law Discriminates Against Minorities – Huffington Post
Passed in 1965 during the peak of the civil rights era, the Voting Rights Act bans rules that make it more difficult for minorities to vote. The Justice Department will analyze the Pennsylvania data to determine if voters who lack … Continue reading
Feds seeking data on voted ID law – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
… of Justice is reviewing the new Pennsylvania voter ID law for compliance with the Voting Rights Act, according to a letter from the department’s Civil Rights Division to the secretary of the commonwealth. The law requires most voters to … Continue reading
Justice Dept. opens probe of Pa.’s voter-ID law – Philadelphia Daily News
The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of Pennsylvania’s new voter-ID law, asking the Corbett administration to document its repeated claims that 99 percent of the state’s voters have the photo …
Discuss: Unequal treatment of minority students remains 48 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. – Seattle Times
If you know your American history, particularly the Civil Rights era, then you know about the long, ugly struggle to end legalized discrimination in this country. Title VI states, ”No person in the United States shall, on the basis of … Continue reading
Poland’s Parliament Blocks Civil Unions Debate – Wall Street Journal
The proposed law would also give opposite-sex couples an alternative to marriage. In a somewhat schizophrenic display, about a half out of the 1,700 Poles polled by the government supported each of the above rights for same-sex couples when …
The 15 Greatest Americans Of The 20th Century (PHOTOS) – Huffington Post
… Nineteenth Amendment (which granted women suffrage in 1920), the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (which created the minimum wage), the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which outlawed many forms of racial discrimination), and the Clean Air Act of … Continue reading
Blacks must not cede vital role in elections – Kansas City Star
The report cites “the long journey in the expansion of the right and the ability to vote in the United States” from the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution after the Civil War to the Voting Rights Act … Continue reading
Justice Department investigating Pennsylvania voter ID law – CNN
Pennsylvania is the first state outside of the areas covered by Section 5 of the Civil Rights Act designed to protect minorities in states with historic racial discrimination in voting, to be investigated. To date the Justice Department has …
