Sentences with phrase «of civil rights»

The presence of the civil rights leader who has led national marches against police brutality for decades and is seen by critics as reflexively anti-police rekindled a debate about his track record on public safety at a time when his ally, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is seeking to burnish his bonds with police officers, large numbers of whom turned their backs on him at two police funerals last December.

As a pair of civil rights organizations prepare to sue the city of Buffalo for information on police checkpoints, Mayor Byron Brown says he «feels very comfortable» with police actions.

The author of the book, Carolyn Maull McKinstry, is a survivor of the Civil Rights struggle and an eyewitness to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that took the lives of four of her young friends in 1963.

He did send a deputy secretary of civil rights, Alphonso David, to speak instead.

A coalition of civil rights advocates sued New Jersey to prod the state to better integrate its public schools.

Mandela covers the life of the civil rights leader before, during and after his incarceration of 27 years.

Dukes said Moskowitz had «hijacked the language of civil rights» when she said at a protest less than a mile away that the denial of an additional co-location at the school was about «educational justice.»

Marriage equality is an issue of civil rights, a basic issue of civil rights.»

He defended his vote when asked about it at debates and other appearances, saying same - sex marriage was an issue of civil rights.

Later, they gave energy to the activism of the civil rights era.

But Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, the Democratic Senate nominee, told The Washington Post's David Weigel that Paul's statements on MSNBC made it clear that the Republican «rejected the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act, and to me that's a rejection of the progress we've made over the last half - century.»

«The enforcement of civil rights in the education, housing, and labor departments of state government has taken a back seat to other missions assigned to these departments,» Hawkins said.

The Rev. Al Sharpton: «The passing of Governor Mario Cuomo is a true loss to the nation, the state and lovers of civil rights and liberties.

Senator Klein said: «Black History Month provides an opportunity to not just reflect and recognize the achievements of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, but also the contributions made by black leaders in their local communities.

His Office of Civil Rights has done a good job in protecting the interests of disabled New Yorkers and has worked closely with community leaders.

On Friday, Assistant US Attorney Thomas Perez, head of the Civil Rights Division, sent a letter to lawyers for the NYS Senate Majority saying that... Continue reading →

New York City Council Member Larry B. Seabrook, Chair of the Civil Rights Committee and Council Member John Liu, Chair of the Transportation will host a community meeting and speak out in District 12, on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's toll and fare increases and service cuts on bus and subway lines.

By carrying water for a certifiable opposer of the civil rights act like Senator Jeff Beauregard Sessions, he is behaving like a text book example of an «Uncle Tom».

In his statement, Pataki indicated the law that has drawn a firestorm of controversy for Republican Gov. Mike Pence, another potential 2016 candidate, is a matter of civil rights.

TL; DR: Catalonia isn't suffering a rise of nationalism, but of neo-autonomism / pro-independence feeling, mainly due to loss of civil rights, economic power, and, or, more correctly, the final and uttermost understanding that those rights and power were never there in first place.

Also, which «loss of civil rights» are you talking about?

The defeat of the civil rights protestors — literally bludgeoned off the streets by the sectarian police - saw the advantage default to the «physical force» tradition, a pattern that has repeated itself in Irish politics time and again.

Head of the Private Prosecuting Unit of the civil rights organisation AfriForum, Gerrie Nel looks on during a press conference concerning the alleged assault by Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe towards South African model Gabriella.

You will find numerous differences in legal rights, from inheritance to access to medical information, presence in hospital ICUs, etc. «Marriage» is a legal, as well as a social contract and its denial based upon sexual orientation is a base violation of civil rights that future generations will condemn.

Senator Sani, who is also the President of Civil Rights Congress (CRC) in Nigeria, added his message is in the interest masses.

One rhetorical trait of European, especially German, Antifa agitation is to proclaim a permanent state of emergency, due to an impending fascist takeover, making abolishment of civil rights and an unrestricted permission for violence by them «necessary».

Goldwater was very much a proponent of civil rights.

➢ It intrudes on mental health privacy, according to the NYCLU; and it is not compliant with federal HIPAA laws (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996), according to the New York State Psychiatric Association, which filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights.

In the late 1960s, however, t * he Republicans began employing a «southern strategy» to capitalize on white resentment of civil rights *.

Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

We don't believe in a lack of civil rights and we're not going to go to a state.»

Similarly, do you have evidence evidence that Democratic passage of civil rights legislation is what caused African Americans to switch parties?

Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.

(WBEN) A federal lawsuit is coming from Carl Paladino saying that the groups that are trying to remove him from the Buffalo School Board conspired together against him — to deprive him of his civil rights.

I think students are more aware of their rights and the Office of Civil Rights,» said Nolan Weiss.

Wednesday marks 50 years since the famous March on Washington, when more than 200,000 Americans gathered in support of civil rights.

«Anybody who voted against marriage, obviously, has marginalized the LGBT community and doesn't consider us a part of the civil rights movement,» said Allen Roskoff, the president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, a citywide LGBT club.

The fact that low income Republicans have been voting against their interets for the sake of racism (due to the passage of the Civil Rights Amendment) amazes me.

Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of the civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama that came to be known as «Bloody Sunday.»

Colia Clark is a veteran of the civil rights movement, and a former Democrat.

These might include violations of civil rights or obstruction of justice.

The leaders of High Achievement New York, a Manhattan - based advocacy group of civil rights and business organizations, said this week's boycott showed «no measurable increase in opt - outs this year.»

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

The 52 - year - old Takoma Park resident, who is a professor at American University Washington College of Law, has focused his energy on a number of civil rights and constitutional issues in both the academic and legislative arenas, including marijuana legalization, campaign finance, and voting rights.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

«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.

The US Justice Department has cleared a Ferguson, Mo., police officer of civil rights violations in the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager whose death set off racially charged and sometimes violent protests last year.

Most libertarians I've talked to view the portions of the Civil Rights Act that coerce the actions of individuals or their use of private property to be a ill - guided and would rather people «vote with their wallets» (e.g. by boycotting racist businesses.)

But don't think that the speaker's civil rights weren't violated under both the public accommodations clause of the Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendment.

For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.