The Criminal Injustice System: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Hugh B. Price President National Urban League Convicted as a teenager in 1982 of rape, Marvin Lamont Anderson spent fifteen[…]
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Rethinking Welfare Reform
By Maya Rockeymoore Senior Resident Scholar for Health And Income Security National Urban League Institute for Equality and Opportunity (Guest[…]
Read moreA Post-9/11 Study in Character
Hugh B. Price President National Urban League The news story in the December 28 edition of the New York Times[…]
Read moreWild Horse And Burro Round-Ups Are Reined In
Responding to a request for an immediate court injunction from The Fund for Animals and the Animal Legal Defense Fund,[…]
Read moreNo Government Handouts For Recreational Fur Trappers
The fur trappers have asked Senator Murkowski (R-AK) to submit an amendment to S. 1731, the Agriculture, Conservation, and Rural[…]
Read moreSame-Sex Families Can File Claims For Federal Victim Compensation Fund; But Success Remains Unclear
On December 20th, The Human Rights Campaign expressed satisfaction that same-sex families can file claims with the federal Victim Compensation[…]
Read moreHRC Expresses ‘Deep Concerns’ About The Vega Murder Investigation To The Milwaukee District Attorney
Human Rights Campaign Executive Director Elizabeth Birch recently sent a letter on behalf of the group's 460,000 members to the[…]
Read moreNAACP Resolves Lawsuit With The Adam’s Mark Hotel Chain Announces End Of Its Economic Boycotts
On December 3rd, Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), announced the resolution[…]
Read moreAdministration To Undermine Critical Local Air Quality Protections
In one of the most damaging regulatory rollbacks in Clean Air Act history, the administration is expected soon to release[…]
Read moreNew Report Details Those At Greatest Risk From Antibiotic Resistance
A new report, "When Wonder Drugs Don't Work: How Antibiotic Resistance Threatens Children, Seniors, and the Medically Vulnerable," recently released[…]
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