Pioneering US ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell dies at 84 In an interview earlier this year Mitchell, who lived in Manhattan, spoke of the early hostile reactions he had received from audiences before his talent ultimately won them over, leading to regular standing ovations. "I danced myself into their hearts…" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 45
Opinion: In Exchange For Cheap Laughs Netflix Stigmatizes And Bullies The Disabled
Guest post by the Honorable Tony Coelho, retired U.S. Congressman from California and the principal author of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He is the founder of The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. As someone who has lived with seizures for more than sixty years, … Continue reading Opinion: In Exchange For Cheap Laughs Netflix Stigmatizes And Bullies The Disabled
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 44
Detention of migrant children has skyrocketed to highest levels ever. New York Times Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas. CNN Eric Trump makes anti-Semitic comments in reference to Bob Woodward’s new book about his father’s … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 44
The NFL Doesn’t Care About Black People!
The NFL doesn’t care about Black people! This should come as a surprise to no one with any bit of cultural awareness and familiarity with the history of the United States, particularly as it pertains to ongoing racial discrimination and systemic oppression of marginalized communities—like Bush during Katrina. On September 6, 2018, the NFL’s 2018-2019 … Continue reading The NFL Doesn’t Care About Black People!
This Week in White Supremacy: Week 43
Election officials are alarmed as Trump administration subpoenas voter data from 44 North Carolina counties. Mother Jones Cincinnati police officer tases 11-year old suspected of shoplifting tells her 'This is why there aren't any grocery stores in the Black community'. ABC News The Trump administration officially has a plan to detain families who enter the … Continue reading This Week in White Supremacy: Week 43
Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color
By Vanessa L. Holton, General Counsel, The State Bar of California On August 23, 2018, a California appeals court held that the State Bar does not need to modify private demographic information that it received from bar applicants in order to produce a supposedly anonymous dataset for the public. This important decision ensures that state agencies … Continue reading Court of Appeal Upholds State Bar’s Decision to Protect Bar Applicant Privacy in Sanders v State Bar, Case Affecting Law Students of Color
Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Dean Erwin Chermerinsky put the fear of God into me in describing his predictions for cases a Justice Kavanaugh would overturn. Erwin predicts Kavanaugh would provide the fifth vote that would hold the use of disparate impact in Title VII and Title VIII to be an illegal use of race!! Thinking about this caused me … Continue reading Kavanaugh May Put Disparate Impact on the Chopping Block
Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle
Opinion: Kavanaugh will undermine progress made on justice for all By Eva Paterson San Francisco Chronicle Sept. 5, 2018 Facebook | Twitter Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated by President Trump to fill the vacancy created by the premature retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Civil rights activists, abortion rights advocates, the disability rights community, and those concerned with limiting … Continue reading Eva Paterson’s Op-ed on Kavanaugh in SF Chronicle