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”
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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”
California Voters Support Affirmative Action, Says New Survey
California voters in all racial groups support affirmative action, according to a report released today by the National Asian American Survey (NAAS). That is a significant change from 1996 when 55 percent of the state’s voters supported Prop 209, which ended affirmative policies in public employment, contracting and education in California, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, surveyContinueContinue reading “California Voters Support Affirmative Action, Says New Survey”