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  • Civil rights lawyers: NYPD spying violates rules

    February 4, 2013 6:43 AM

    WASHINGTON - Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance. The lawyers say in a court motion the NYPD has renewed such scrutiny in its post-9/11 focus on Muslims.... more »
  • Jailed civil rights activist reflects on King, Obama

    January 21, 2013 6:34 PM

    BATON ROUGE- Rev. Betty Claiborne has lived through the best and worst times of the civil rights movement in America. As a 19-year old girl she was arrested when she and her sister entered a 'whites-only' swimming pool. "What I did, I did it because I love America,... more »
  • Civil rights activist reflects on King, Obama Play Video

    January 21, 2013 1:42 PM

    BATON ROUGE- Rev. Betty Claiborne has lived through the best and worst times of the civil rights movement in America. As a 19-year old girl she was arrested when she and her sister entered a 'whites-only' swimming pool. Claiborne spent two weeks in jail, and was pardoned decades later.... more »
  • Nation to honor MLK Jr. as Obama is inaugurated

    January 21, 2013 6:49 AM

    ATLANTA - Even as President Barack Obama is inaugurated in Washington, the nation also honors civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Several dozen people took turns taking pictures with the statue of King and reading his quotes inscribed along the wall at a Washington memorial before heading to the... more »
  • Lack of funds hinders civil rights museum

    December 28, 2012 9:44 AM

    BATON ROUGE - After 13 years on the drawing board, a civil rights museum in New Orleans appears to be far from becoming a reality in Louisiana. Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne says given the fiscal condition of the state, he doesn't see it becoming a priority. The pace... more »
  • La. sheriff sued over detention of immigrants

    September 19, 2012 4:34 PM

    ABBEVILLE - To see if detained immigrants are being locked up unlawfully for long periods of time, a civil rights group is seeking to get the Vermilion Parish sheriff to turn over documents on immigrants who've been jailed since 2009. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit against Sheriff... more »
  • Federal hotline set up on Arizona immigration

    June 25, 2012 5:34 PM

    WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has set up a hotline for the public to report potential civil rights concerns regarding the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. The hotline phone number is 1-855-353-1010. The email is: SB1070(at)usdoj.gov. The Supreme... more »
  • Famous New Orleans restaurant fueled civil rights movement

    March 3, 2012 3:32 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - At the famed Dooky Chase Restaurant in New Orleans, where civil rights movement veterans still recall making plans to change the world over bowls of gumbo, black and white foodies now line up for Leah Chase's Creole cooking. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, some customers... more »
  • Court: CA gay marriage ban is unconstitutional

    February 7, 2012 12:36 PM

    SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court... more »
  • Woman files civil rights lawsuit against BRPD

    September 19, 2011 10:57 AM

    BATON ROUGE- A woman has filed suit against the Baton Rouge Police Dept. and officer Robert Schilling, claiming he violated her civil rights when he pulled her by her hair during an arrest. Melinda Morris claims Schilling pushed her, grabbed her hair and then wrongfully arrested her at the... more »
  • FBI to help New Orleans Police's integrity bureau

    September 12, 2011 5:32 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - The FBI has agreed to work with the New Orleans Police Department public integrity bureau on internal investigations. FBI agent Dave Welker says he and police officials have been meeting about moving agents into the department since last year. Officials said Monday that the move... more »
  • Jury convicts 5 officers in post-Katrina shootings

    August 5, 2011 12:22 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - A federal jury has convicted five current or former police officers of civil rights violations in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. All five officers were convicted Friday of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. The four who had... more »
  • Jail inmate: Lack of porn violates U.S. Constitution

    July 4, 2011 11:05 AM

    MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A Michigan jail inmate says he's being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can't have pornography. In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail. Richards says denying his request for erotic... more »
  • Federal lawsuit alleges racial discrimination

    February 1, 2011 3:43 PM

    BATON ROUGE - About 230 current and former employees at a Baton Rouge-based oil services company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace. The lawsuit was filed this week in a Texas federal court against... more »
  • Ala. ex-trooper pleads in civil rights-era slaying

    November 15, 2010 1:18 PM

    MARION, Ala. - A white former state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man at a civil rights protest, a killing that inspired historic voting rights marches. James Bonard Fowler, 77, entered the plea of misdemeanor second-degree manslaughter two weeks... more »
  • Former officer sentenced in civil rights case

    August 19, 2010 7:07 AM

    A former Patterson police officer convicted in September 2009 of a misdemeanor civil rights violation has been sentenced to one year in federal prison. Jeffrey Jermaine Prince is convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in May 2008 when she arrived at the Patterson Jail to visit her brother, who was... more »
  • Longtime civil rights leader Hooks dead at 85

    April 15, 2010 7:21 AM

    Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor and former executive director of the NAACP, has died. Hooks took over the NAACP in 1977 and, by declaring "the civil rights movement is not dead," restored momentum that had flagged after two decades of progress toward racial equality. ... more »
  • Federal civil rights suit settled in Baton Rouge

    March 25, 2010 10:59 AM

    The East Baton Rouge Metro Council has voted to pay $300,000 to settle a federal civil rights suit filed by a Baton Rouge man seriously injured by police in a 2006 arrest. Abraham Barousalian was arrested following a routing traffic stop, after an officer saw an open bottle of... more »
  • FBI says civil rights initiative ending

    March 3, 2010 5:17 AM

    The Civil Rights Cold Case Initiative focusing on racially motivated killings from the civil rights era is coming to an end by the FBI. About half of the 108 cases the FBI began investigating in 2006 involved deceased victims, while 30 percent involved subjects who had already been prosecuted at... more »
  • Baton Rouge church has connections to MLK

    January 18, 2010 9:11 AM

    They gathered in Baton Rouge's historic Mt. Zion First Baptist Church to reflect on the life, the legacy, and the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ironically, ministers spoke from the same pulpit King preached from in 1950s. He came to Baton Rouge at the invitation of... more »

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