Sentences with phrase «civil rights director»

«If a community is expressing hatred, the burden is on them to show that there are compelling issues» that should prevent the projects, said Deborah Lauter, the ADL's civil rights director, who is active on the group's coalition on mosque construction.

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That is basically the legal definition from these laws,» Michael Foreman, a clinical law professor and director of Penn State's Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, told ABC News.

«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Kansas Democrats hoping to turn voter discontent into an upset picked civil rights attorney Jim Thompson to run for the U.S. House seat that Mike Pompeo vacated to become CIA director under President Donald Trump.

Commentary by Ryan Roemerman, the founding executive director of the LGBT Institute at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bob Witeck, a leading LGBT business strategist and consultant, president of Witeck Communications, and a native Virginian.

An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.

Shannon Minter, a transgender man who is legal director of the San Francisco - based National Center for Lesbian Rights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly uRights, said many transgender civil - rights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly urights gains of recent years are based on federal statutes and court precedents that can not be quickly undone.

Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa, Florida - based branch of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, said his group would by the end of this week file a request for the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice to review Todashev's death.

Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Ms. Lasdon served as Deputy Director of Research for People for the American Way Foundation, where she published research on civil rights and civil liberties issues.

Weldon J. Rougeau, a long - time civil rights activist, has considered the issue of diversity from many perspectives — as director of the office of federal contract compliance programs at the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, as president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and even as a prisoner for 78 days (58 of them in solitary confinement) in a Baton Rouge, La., jail cell when he was a student activist.

LeAnna Ware, director of the Civil Rights Bureau, said, «Under the law, you don't have a right to discriminate, so in effect you can't put anyone you want in your house.»

For several years, Ms. Hunter was the director of the AIDS Project and the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Mr. Walmsley, rector of St. Paul's Church (Episcopal) in New Haven, Connecticut, served for ten years as director of the Episcopal Church's national program in the field of social action and civil rights.

Jorge Amselle of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Washington think tank headed by Linda Chavez, the former director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, says, «You don't cure the problem of people treating each other differently because of race by having government treat people differently because of race.

Nikki Graves Henderson, the director of historical projects at Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation, an organization built in 1997 to preserve the Civil Rights Era history of the surrounding Virginia townships, joins them.

Rev. Edgar H.S. Chandler, 83, a Congregational minister, was one of the outstanding civil rights leaders in Chicago during the 1960s and was executive director of the Church Federation of Greater Chicago from 1960 to 1968.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

Complaints of discrimination may be filed with USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Washington, DC 20250.

The following statement can be attributed to Ian Rosenblum, Executive Director of The Education Trust — New York: «While the Trump Administration's failure to protect students» civil rights is shameful, we are grateful to the New York State Education Department and Board of Regents for providing state leadership on this crucial issue.

«The congressman has always been and will continue to be a champion of civil rights and the LGBT community,» said Hannah Kim, Rangel's communications director.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by Ross Levi, Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda and Foundation, New York's statewide civil rights organization committed to LGBT rights.

John is a former Co-chair of the Board of Directors of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

It features testimonies in favor of the candidate by singer Harry Belafonte; Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, who was killed in a 2014 chokehold incident with the NYPD: preacher and civil rights activist Shaun King, and Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York.

«This is the defining civil rights initiative of this decade,» said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

«While FBI agents were working to restore justice in a civil rights investigation, District Attorney Thomas Spota and Assistant District Attorney Christopher McPartland were conspiring to obstruct it,» said William Sweeney Jr., the assistant FBI director - in - charge, in a statement.

A Civil Society Organisation, Conscience Nigeria, has advised lawyer / human rights activist, Festus Keyamo, not to be distracted in his appointment as the Director, Strategic...

Robert Megna: Director of the Division of Budget Jim Malatras: Deputy Secretary for Policy Management Andrew Zambelli: Counselor to the Governor Linda Lacewell: Special Assistant to the Governor Paul Francis: Director of Agency Redesign and Efficiency Sabrina Ty: Deputy Secretary of Legislative Affairs Barry Sample: Deputy Director of State Operations Leslie Leach: Appointments Secretary to the Governor Yrthya Dinzey - Flores: Chief Diversity Officer Gaurav Vasisht: First Assistant Counsel Alphonso David: Deputy Secretary for Civil Rights Kristin Proud: Deputy Secretary for Human Services, Operations, and Technology Elizabeth Glazer: Deputy Secretary for Public Safety Patrick Foye: Deputy Secretary for Economic Development James Introne: Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of Healthcare Redesign Thomas Congdon: Assistant Secretary for Energy and Environment Yomika Bennett: Assistant Secretary for Transportation

Last summer, a number of LGBT leaders ---- including Dr. Marjorie Hill, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis, Liz Margolies, executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network, Melissa Goodman, an LGBT and reproductive rights attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Amber Hollibaugh, the co-director of Queers for Economic Justice ---- told Gay City News they were strong backers of paid sick leave.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director.

Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, which began meeting with lawyers Saturday, declined to provide specific about how his organization plans to pursue legal action, but said he was «encouraged» by what he'd heard.

Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, who has also threatened to sue, blasted Steiner's decision as a «shocking capitulation to political expediency,» and «a scam and a sham.»

«After years of tireless advocacy, we've won a tremendous victory for transgender civil rights with Governor Cuomo's announcement tonight,» Nathan Schaefer, executive director of the Pride Agenda, said in a statement.

Dr. Alice Green, Albany civil rights activist and Executive Director of the Center for Law and Justice, is on the five - member panel Sheehan has appointed to advise her as she considers applications: «We're gonna be very, at least I'm gonna be very sensitive to what I think someone can bring to not only the court, but to the community at large.»

Dr. Ibrahim, a sociologist, is the founder and director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, a Cairo - based organization that conducts research on democracy, civil society, and minority rights in Egypt and the Arab region.

«Only one of Syria's six World Heritage sites — the Ancient City of Damascus — appears to remain undamaged in satellite imagery since the onset of civil war in 2011,» said Susan Wolfinbarger, director of the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project at AAAS.

, Denis Hayes, David Brower (first executive director of the Sierra Club), Carl Pope (current executive director of the Sierra Club), Paul Ehrlich (population expert) and David Mixner (civil rights / gay rights activist), who were among the original organizers of the Earth Day «Teach - In» movement.

In one sense, «Lincoln» is a continuation of director Spielberg's work on issues of civil rights.

Writer - director Tanya Hamilton's intellectually ambitious debut drama Night Catches Us is all the more notable for setting well - drawn fictional characters in a fraught, real moment in civil rights history.

There is no mention, in Anon, the latest film from writer - director Andrew Niccol (Good Kill, The Host), of such pesky notions as civil rights or legal warrants for Ether access.

Director Jay Roach turns Robert Schenkkan's acclaimed Broadway play into an engrossing, powerful if slightly overcrowded movie that works as a biopic of LBJ and as a time capsule of a crucial period in the civil rights movement.

Bloody Sunday, the latest of this director's studies of injustice and masculine pathology, tackles Northern Ireland's Troubles, which reached flashpoint in the early Seventies with the deaths of unarmed civil rights protesters at the hands of the British Army.

English writer - director Paul Greengrass's unnervingly realistic recreation of the 1972 «Bloody Sunday» massacre of 13 unarmed Irish - Catholic civilians during a civil - rights demonstration on the riot - scarred streets of Derry, Northern Ireland, has been rightfully compared to Gillo Pontecorvo's classic THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965).

Paramount Pictures did not send out screeners of its civil rights drama «Selma» because director Ava DuVernay had not locked the final cut of the film, which is due in theaters on Christmas Day.

Never a particularly stylish or inventive director, Hudlin directs Marshall with smooth, competent, but ultimately anonymous efficiency, periodically dropping in clunky color desaturated, conflicting flashbacks better suited for second - or third - rate basic cable fare than a big - screen biopic of a Civil Rights pioneer.

Director: Seth MacFarlane Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi Plot: When trying to adopt, Ted (MacFarlane) realises that he doesn't officially count as a real person and his civil rights begin getting taken away.

Black women played a seminal role in the Civil Rights Movement, but, more often than not (with the notable exception of Julie Dash's The Rosa Parks Story, 2002), its history has mostly been told by male directors.

Coinciding with its world premiere at Cannes, Focus Features has released for writer - director Jeff Nichols» upcoming drama Loving, which explores the real - life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), whose civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court.

The debut film of It's the Earth, Not the Moon director Gonçalo Tocha, Balaou, won the Portuguese award in 2007 but never saw cinema release (finally coming out on DVD in 2012); the 2010 winner, Pedro Caldas» acclaimed Guerra Civil, remains lost in distribution limbo due to rights issues.

Sing Your Song (Director: Susanne Rostock)-- Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer; this film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.