civil rights
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The prime minister's intervention followed mounting pressure from protesters and civil rights groups and a first round of talks with Nadda on Monday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“California is where some of the most significant violations of federal civil rights law have occurred, as our enforcement actions demonstrate,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
"It's a big setback for black people," Joe Reed, a Montgomery-based civil rights activist and lawyer, tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Bayard Rustin, who organized the largest civil rights march in American history from the background as an openly gay man in 1963, and let other men stand at the microphone.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
