Barbara Rodgers estimates that she’s done at least 8,000 interviews during her 36 years in broadcasting. Most of those for CBS 5 (KPIX-TV), the station that has been her home away from home since 1979. Now Rodgers has decided to take a break.”After almost 29 years at CBS 5, I had been thinking about whenContinueContinue reading “Barbara Rodgers to Leave CBS 5”
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UN Expert on Racism Begins Fact-Finding Mission in US
Several national civil liberties and human rights groups today welcomed a fact-finding mission to the U.S. by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The American Civil Liberties Union, Global Rights, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, the U.S. Human Rights Network, theContinueContinue reading “UN Expert on Racism Begins Fact-Finding Mission in US”
Barb Shelly: ‘Good riddance to the anti-affirmative action drive in Missouri’
Kansas City Star editorial board member Barb Shelly posted this earlier today in response to the failed attempt by the Missouri campaign to erode equal opportunity in that state:Nice to see the cynically named “Civil Rights Initiative” fall short of the petition signature requirements in Missouri.This was, in my mind, the most offensive of severalContinueContinue reading “Barb Shelly: ‘Good riddance to the anti-affirmative action drive in Missouri’”