Sentences with phrase «years as a civil rights»

I have pursued social justice in many ways throughout the years as a civil rights litigator.

Because the battle for inclusion, equity and diversity has been her mission for years as a civil rights attorney.

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«We don't want to see property destruction or see people getting hurt,» said Elad Gross, a 29 - year - old St. Louis civil rights attorney, as activists gathered in a park before going to the mall.

While Apple has not gone as far as Salesforce in opposing the bill in Indiana, where it operates two stores, the iPhone maker has expressed its concerns earlier this year about whether that bill and others like it would undermine existing civil rights law and damage the business climate of those states.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.

The lecture he delivered is titled, «The Other America,» and features what most will recognize as a typical King speech through those years after the passing of the Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Bill (three and two years before this appearance, respectively).

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.

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.

* As Tavis Smiley reports in his new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader faced a major decline in popularity during his last few years, as many thought his social justice agenda too radicaAs Tavis Smiley reports in his new book on Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader faced a major decline in popularity during his last few years, as many thought his social justice agenda too radicaas many thought his social justice agenda too radical.

(I have worked as a paralegal for famous civil rights attorneys in the U.S., they won hundreds of millions of dollars, the US Supreme Court heard one of their cases a couple of years ago, and they move in to legal action very quickly.)

For many years, Ms. Bazán served as a member and was Chair of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization.

David Oyelowo, who plays the civil rights leader in the film, is everywhere this year — from roles in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year to his major role as Kyear — from roles in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year to his major role as KYear to his major role as King.

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

I must say that I do not mean to imply that the windmills I seek to charge this year are somehow on a level of wretchedness as those that King and the Civil Rights leaders faced down in their own day.

For example, recognizing the human and civil rights of African - Americans required changing laws and, as a result, great progress has been made in the last 60 years.

A federal appeals court ruled for the first time that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - olRights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - olrights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53 - year - old law.

Also chilling are the Soviet Union's vivid indictments of the US civil rights record during the Cold War years — the Statue of Liberty looms as a police watchtower (see below).

The defence secretary spoke out as the coalition was accused of spoiling tactics after it responded to a call for heterosexual couples to be granted the same rights to enter into civil partnerships by announcing plans for a review that would be delayed for five years once the legislation is passed.

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Herbert, writer and producer of the documentary Against All Odds, discusses 1968 as a pivotal year in the Civil Rights Movement, addresses where the quest for equality stands today, and reflects on his personal experiences during this tumultuous period.

Backed by a broad coalition made up of labor, civil rights, and women's organizations and almost 600 faith leaders ---- what one Albany insider described as the sort of group «needed to get anything progressive done» in the Legislature ---- EPSA earlier this year launched a media drive worth more than $ 300,000 targeting specific state senators.

«As Dr. King said 53 years ago, «The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave Negroes some part of their rightful dignity, but without the vote it was dignity without strength.»

The civil rights activist has served as a spokesman for the family of Garner — a 43 - year - old Staten Island man whose chokehold death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner following a July 18 attempt to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes — and is also heavily involved in the case of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo..

Ramos» challenge made headlines this year, as he received endorsements from a number of civil and gay rights groups who saw him as a good shot at ousting Diaz, who feircely opposes gay marriage.

James Burke, who resigned as chief of the Suffolk County Police Department last year amid an investigation into the incident, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and civil - rights violations.

As a matter of fact, Karen, sometimes I think that the House and Senate in Washington, in 2013, 2014 and 2015 — 50 years after the March on Washington, the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Federal Voting Act of 1965 — couldn't pass those same bills in their same form today.

Cohen, the attorney who has handled many civil rights cases aimed at Buffalo Police, shares the same concern as Bordeaux that the city for years has not pursued accreditation from the state's Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation Program.

Nearly 80 years later, the story continues to have great resonance, as America once again grapples with issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

A long time fighter for women's rights and civil rights, Allred has taken on Trump, Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein in the past year in the courts and in the court of public opinion as allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault have instigated potentially transformative movements in Hollywood.

The years needed for change as in other civil rights movements echoes in the slow burn of win - appeal we suffer as an audience in the film.

Those two things are nowhere to be found in Ted 2, despite the oddly topical storyline centered around the concept of Ted (MacFarlane) and John (Wahlberg) fighting for the bear's civil rights when it turns out that he somehow slipped by the legal system all these years and is now suddenly deemed property in the eyes of the law, as opposed to a human being.

The «untitled Nina Simone project» — which has been in the works for several years but was on hold until now due to lack of funding — will tell the story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist who became known as the «High Priestess of Soul,» including her rise to fame, her role in the Civil Rights movement, and her relationship with her manager.

Over the next few years, as the two live in exile in Washington DC, the whole country becomes more and more caught up in the Civil Rights Movement.

But for the last few years, the prolific performer has been quietly building a rock - solid resumé through a series of high - profile supporting turns — from Straight Outta Compton (check out his Snoop Dogg) to Selma (that's him as Civil Rights martyr Jimmie Lee Jackson), Brad Pitt's why - we - fight satire War Machine to Jordan Peele's monster horror hit Get Out.

After living for more than thirty years under an assumed identity as a civil rights lawyer and single father in New York, he must now go on the run.

The film's ace ensemble casting extends to its smallest roles, including Cuba Gooding Jr. (doing his best work in years) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray and Martin Sheen as federal district court judge Frank M. Johnson.

American Playboy takes us through the founding of the magazine and the construction of Hefner's empire over 60 years, as well as his fight for social justice and civil rights.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

Over the past ten years, the level of press freedom has declined substantially in Venezuela, as have political rights and civil liberties.Under former President Chávez, Venezuela became not only the largest critic of the United States and neoliberalism in the region, but arguably in the entire world.

Even then, many hiccups occurred as public opinion wavered between the idealism of the civil rights years and the backlash instigated by civil unrest in major cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Research from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard and Professor Gary Orfield indicates that American schools are not nearly as desegregated as one might think and that while we should recognize the 50 - year anniversary of Brown, it is not necessarily a time for celebration.

On the same day that the Obama administration announced its intentions to beef up the enforcement of civil rights in the nation's schools, the head of the office for civil rights during the Bush years said its track record isn't lackluster as claimed.

As civil rights icon Julian Bond said, «Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years» worth of education.»

As the piece notes, Walker was executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. King's chief of staff during the critical Civil Rights Movement years of 1960 to 1964.

As Obama noted in 2014, «During his first twenty years in Congress, he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame.»

Last year's equity DCL was signed by the assistant secretary for civil rights, Catherine E. Lhamon, who prior to joining OCR had served as lead attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union in a major California school - finance civil rights, Catherine E. Lhamon, who prior to joining OCR had served as lead attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union in a major California school - finance Civil Liberties Union in a major California school - finance case.

As Dianne Piche of the Leadership Council for Civil and Human Rights noted last year in a Center for American Progress forum, single mothers, in particular, have to also think about childcare, especially since they must pick up their kids from school and daycare.