The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund today launched a new site, ReclaimCivilRights.org, to serve as a clearinghouse for civil rights enforcement materials. The website features an interactive map demonstrating how individual states have been affected by recent rollbacks in civil rights enforcement as well as an interactive timeline that tracks civil rights progressContinue reading "New ReclaimCivilRights.org Site Launched to Serve as Resource on Civil Rights Enforcement"
Report: Framing Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
The Equal Justice Society today issued a report, "Framing Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Unnatural Disaster," an examination of coverage by different kinds of media of this unique natural and unnatural disaster in an effort to understand how the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath were beingContinue reading "Report: Framing Race and Class in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina"
Thomas Saenz to Keynote Symposium
UPDATE: Tom Saenz will keynote the EJS Judge Motley Civil Rights Fellowship luncheon on June 2, 2009, in San Francisco. Click here for more details. Thomas A. Saenz, counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has been confirmed as the keynote for the Oct. 26 symposium Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Saenz as counsel in AugustContinue reading "Thomas Saenz to Keynote Symposium"