Featured Blog Posts – March 2011 Archive (25)

Mississippi was not exactly the graveyard of the human rights struggle between the successful implementation of the

By Earnest McBride

 “Mississippi Plan” in 1885 and Brown versus Board of Education in 1954, but it had become the world-wide symbol of racial segregation at its worst.Then came the Tougaloo Nine on March 27, 1961, followed two months later by the first…

Any act of violence, especially one against civilians, marks a profound failure of human imagination and causes a deep

 and abiding trauma for all involved. In mourning the nine lives lost in Gaza and the one life lost in Jerusalem this week, we reject the pattern of condemning the deaths of Israelis while ignoring the deaths of Palestinians. We do not discriminate. One life lost is one life too many--whether Palestinian or…

Unless Orange County officials can show it was a security risk, a Muslim woman had the right to wear a headscarf when

 By SALVADOR HERNANDEZ

 she was taken into custody by deputies in court, an 11-judge panel ruled Tuesday.

In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also reinstated a lawsuit filed by Souhair Khatib, who sued the county after deputies forced her to remove her hijab when she was…

DUBAI - Dubai police have foiled a bid to smuggle 16,000 guns from Turkey to Yemen's northern province of Saada, a

Six Arabs residing in the UAE have been arrested

Criminal justice has always held a prominent place in the work of civil rights. From the trials of the Scottsboro boys; to

In a rare decision that supports the rights of the convicted, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed prisoners to sue for DNA-evidence testing.

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TRIPOLI - Libyan strongman Moamer Gathafi said Tuesday he was determined to crush the month-old uprising against

Fleeing to Benghazi

China, Russia are leading opposition to no-fly zone to ground Libyan leader’s warplanes, US is very cautious.

 him, while at the…

SAN DIEGO, CA, 3/15/11) –- On Wednesday, March 16, the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-

Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) will hold a news conference with a Muslim passenger removed without explanation from a Southwest Airlines flight on Sunday.



At the news conference, CAIR-San Diego will call for an investigation of the incident and an apology to the…

Halle Berry (Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture), Denzel Washington (Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture),

Contact: Rob Phillips, (614) 247-6520

 Vanessa Williams (Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series), and John Legend (Outstanding Album) were among the big winners at the prestigious 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards on Friday, March 4, in Los Angeles’s Shrine Auditorium.

Joining the…

A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is

Arab societies have risen with a unified call for freedom. (Aljazeera)…