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November 23rd, 2009

Posted By Mel Gagarin | November 23rd, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » Print This Post Print This Post

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LDF News and Media Today:

A sampling of Race, Justice, Equality and Democracy in the news.


The Demise of the Death Penalty in the USA:
The Politics of Capital Punishment and the Question of Innocence
1,1821 executions have taken place in the US since the restoration of capital punishment in 1976 following a moratorium that went into effect in 1968 after a successful challenge spearheaded by lawyers from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Indiana Lawsuit Over Government Photo-ID At Polls Attracts Many Amici Briefs Against the Indiana Law

Amicus curiae briefs against the law have been filed by the ACLU, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the national League of Women Voters, the American Association of Retired Persons, and the National Senior Citizens Law Center.

Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.

New U.S. civil rights chief pulled back into transgender staffer fight in Montgomery

Just a week after Tom Perez was formally installed as chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division, the former Maryland labor secretary and Montgomery Council member was given a little welcoming gift Friday by council member Duchy Trachtenberg: a letter seeking to bring him into a messy Montgomery dispute regarding ethics proceedings against a transgender council staffer.
The FBI has been told that Edgar Ray Killen bragged that his property was never searched, despite having evidence against those involved in the Ku Klux Klan’s killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.

Well-versed journalist Evelyn Cunningham writing piece on ‘unknown black history’

She has interviewed and worked with some of the most historically significant people of the past 60 years; Nelson Rockefeller, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Sheriff Eugene (Bull) Connor, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Letter: Associated Press article about lawyer fees was one-sided

An Associated Press article the Sun-Star ran on Monday “Lawyers write law, cash in on it,” presents a blatantly unfair and one-sided view of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ voting rights work.
Gov. Haley Barbour’s plan to merge Mississippi’s three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.

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