Sentences with phrase «civil rights work»

Furthermore, the office continued its traditional civil rights work by, for example, conducting a multi-year investigation into the treatment of adolescent males at Rikers Island and filing Americans with Disabilities Act cases against leading New York City institutions like Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, while simultaneously bringing new and innovative cases under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.

NWAC remains at the forefront of civil rights work in Canada, working to promote education, health care, violence prevention and safety for Indigenous women, as well as reducing the poverty, mental illness and incarceration experienced by Indigenous peoples across the country.

The firm has a very deep commitment to progressive civil rights work.

After law school in Chicago, I started in civil rights work and that quickly turned into representing injured workers involved in workers compensation and PI matters.

(Sympathy may be on her side because of her civil rights work and long acting career, but she wouldn't be the only legend — paging Lauren Bacall and Gloria Stuart!

My wife and I did civil rights work in Mississippi when I was still in graduate school at Harvard.

«I've known him since the 1980's, and we both did civil rights work,» said Luna, recalling their protests against apartheid together.

Michelle Dominguez has an extensive background in social justice advocacy, environmentalism and civil rights work.

His father was nearly beaten to death for his civil rights work.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy an

Shep Melnick explains how the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights works and what is likely to change under the Trump administration.

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Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and worked as a civil rights lawyer for a small Chicago firm.

He has received recognition for his commitment to pro bono legal services, including his work as one of the lead attorneys in a successful federal civil rights lawsuit protecting the voting rights of Georgia citizens.

They heard reports from smaller working groups, relayed feedback they had gotten from civil rights groups and other outsiders and suggested ways that a policy or product could go wrong in the future.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

We stand united as San Franciscans to condemn Indiana's new discriminatory law, and will work together to protect the civil rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

As for the developers» own political leanings, they tell Fortune, «As brothers ourselves, we admire the legacy of brothers John and Robert Kennedy for their commitment to cultivating an America that embraced a young generation, stood for civil rights, and worked towards equal opportunity.»

«Visa programs for foreign workers... should be administered in a manner that protects the civil rights of American workers and current lawful residents, and that prioritizes the protection of American workers — our forgotten working people — and the jobs they hold.»

Although enforcement of the Equal Pay Act and other civil rights laws has helped to narrow the gender pay gap, these actions only cover segments of the American working population, and many important protections are not yet codified in law.

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

Sen. Cory Booker (D - NJ) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D - NC) pushed Facebook to work with civil rights organizations to audit the company's platform and practices — for example, to ensure that advertisers can not unfairly target or exclude minority groups.

Will Facebook work with civil rights organizations to address the potential for discriminatory outcomes from the company's advertising and content moderation practices?

The NBFL works to advance workers» rights and promotes a progressive civil society where no one gets left behind.

According to a post on the Facebook Business blog, the site has been working with experts in privacy, data ethics and civil rights, along with charitable and advocacy organizations, to keep advertisers from misusing Facebook's ad targeting capabilities, specifically the ability to discriminate by using exclusion targeting.

In the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalism.

That's why so many religious people are working so hard to deny gays and lesbians their civil rights that harms them and their families.

Leon Kass, that is, who worked for a month in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in 1964.

Right Cathy... because we learned a long time ago that «separate but equal» really works well when it comes to civil rights.

The trauma of slavery, the fratricide of the Civil War, the profound legal ramifications of the Reconstruction amendments, the ignoble post-Reconstruction retreat from the moral and practical implications of black citizenship, the collective redemption of the Civil Rights Movement — these have worked to make us Americans the people we are.

Beginning in the mid-1950s and culminating a decade later, the Civil Rights Movement wrought a profound change in American race relations.

But nowhere does he even mention the fact that in other important sections the book evaluates work of the American Catholic Bishops, statements from several mainline Protestant churches, and publications of M. Douglas Meeks, Max Stackhouse, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and several civil rights reformers, including Jesse Jackson.

Almost all the first full - time staff members of the Delta Ministry, the NCC - sponsored civil rights group which began work in the Mississippi delta and elsewhere in the state in September 1964, had participated in the summer project.

Call upon the educated, artistic, and creative members of our societies, as well as organizations of civil society, to establish a broad movement for the just treatment of religious minorites in Muslim countries and to raise awareness as to their rights, and to work together to ensure the success of these efforts.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Maybe it worked as you say in the case of civil rights, but definitely not in the case of slavery.

To be an actual working solution that respects everyone's human and civil rights would require strict protocols with effective oversight — things that are currently impossible in today's world.

We have no doubt if elected, he will work tirelessly to take away our civil rights, allow anti-gay bullying in schools, promote the immoral anti-gay agenda and rip our families apart... all in the name of his «religious beliefs.»

We had worked together on civil rights questions in the 1960s.

He was told in 2014 by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that it was illegal to refuse the work and that he should re-educate his staff.

And some of the money you spend there is then given to anti gay groups that work to deny you your civil rights.

«In addition, the UK has a proud tradition of civil society and faith groups providing support for people in need, and it is right that their impressive work is recognised in the report.

The slogan of «freedom now» is not only the cry of civil rights demonstrators; it is also the watchword of a generation of college and university students seeking for meaning and motivation in their academic work.

For West, the presence of intact, hard - working families and the network of clubs, churches and sports leagues made segregation easier to bear and gave him the education, vision and self - confidence to join the civil rights movement as a young adult.

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I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

The Tea Party is opposed to science, civil rights, environmental quality standard, equal pay for equal work, minimum wage, universal health care, and every other program that indicates a moral and civilized nation.

A theological student working for Civil Rights in the South, himself a Southerner, described the opposition of some white people in the community in which he was working.