Roberts Confirmation Makes The Next Nominee Critical To Preserving Court Balance
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the following statement about the need for a balanced Supreme Court as the[…]
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Vatican Scapegoats Gays and Leaves Criminals Unaccountable
The Human Rights Campaign derided a new instruction to Catholic seminaries to look for "evidence of homosexuality" in seminarians and[…]
Read moreAmendment to Head Start Bill Allows Taxpayer-Funded Discrimination
On september 22nd, long-established civil rights protections faced another attack in the House of Representatives with the passage of an[…]
Read moreRacial Profiling: For the People Who Don’t Look Like Us
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League Many of us, still reeling physically and psychologically from the back-to-back battering[…]
Read moreHurricane Katrina’s Continuing Crisis
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League Throughout the stricken Gulf region, the flood waters are receding, civil order[…]
Read moreWhat Has become Visible: A Matter of Fairness
By: Marc H. Morial President National Urban League "Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster," Jim[…]
Read moreStatement of Environmental Defense on House Passage of "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act"
Following the passage of Rep. Richard Pombo's (R-CA) endangered species bill in the House, Environmental Defense urged the Senate to[…]
Read moreAdministration Announces Plan to Double Dedicated Access Privilege Programs for Commercial Fishing
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez took an important step forward today in modernizing how the government governs fishing by proposing[…]
Read moreNC Task Force Says Addressing Global Warming Offers State Major Economic Opportunities
North Carolina can take advantage of major economic opportunities if it starts planning now to address global warming, according to[…]
Read moreNAACP Unites Health Partners for Long-Term Katrina Relief
On September 20th, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced that it has partnered with top[…]
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