The issue of police violence and police accountability is urgent. One recent study indicates that a Black person is shot by a police officer every 28 hours in this country. Prosecutions are extremely rare and convictions rarer still with thousands of civilians killed, according to a Washington Post analysis released earlier last week. While mostContinueContinue reading “AB 86 would mandate independent investigation of police shootings in California”
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ACLU Calls on the Senate to Reject Radical Proposal to Subvert Long-Established Constitutional Guarantees of Citizenship at Birth
The ACLU this morning called on the U.S. Senate to reject a radical amendment that would subvert long-established constitutional guarantees of citizenship at birth. https://twitter.com/JoanneLinDC/status/575694507901059072 Senator Vitter (R-LA) has introduced an amendment (274) to rewrite the 14th amendment by restricting birth citizenship to only three categories of people: children of U.S. citizens or nationals, childrenContinueContinue reading “ACLU Calls on the Senate to Reject Radical Proposal to Subvert Long-Established Constitutional Guarantees of Citizenship at Birth”
Full House Sees Community Screening of SELMA, Sponsored by Google.org, Black Googlers Network, YMCA of San Francisco
Charles Ward authors this guest post. Charles is the Chief Development Officer at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. EJS held our 2014 ‘Civil Rights at 50’ event at YBCA and Charles was instrumental in making that happen. He also looped EJS into this fantastic community screening of SELMA last night at the Castro TheatreContinueContinue reading “Full House Sees Community Screening of SELMA, Sponsored by Google.org, Black Googlers Network, YMCA of San Francisco”