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December 1st, 2009

Posted By Mel Gagarin | December 1st, 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.

Supreme Court Schedules Major Gun Rights Case

There are at least 30 of them — ably reposted at ChicagoGunCase.com — plus two unaffiliated ones filed by the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund and the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence.

No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes

[8]. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (New York: Legal Defense Fund, 2009). Online here.

Shaw ’76 Addresses Wesleyan Lawyers Association Debut Event

Approximately 100 attorney alumni, undergraduates, and friends attended a talk given by Ted Shaw ’76, currently the Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University Law School and of counsel at the international firm of Fulbright and Jaworski. Shaw, who was director-counsel and president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 2004 through 2008 and served as a Wesleyan Trustee for 15 years

In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap

But after graduating from business school last year and not having much success garnering interviews, he decided to retool his résumé, scrubbing it of any details that might tip off his skin color. His membership, for instance, in the African-American business students association? Deleted.
A long-term investigation by the US Department of Justice has found that conditions at the Westchester County Jail systematically violate the constitutional rights of inmates.
After 50 years of waiting, last Sunday the State of North Carolina finally officially recognized a major civil rights event and put up a historical marker at the site of the 1957 Royal Ice Cream sit-in in Durham, North Carolina. The peaceful protest at the ice cream shop took place three years before the Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, which received much more attention in the press.

Justice Department to Monitor Election in Georgia

The Justice Department today announced that it will monitor polling place activities for compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 during the Dec. 1, 2009, municipal run-off election in Union Point, Ga.

Supporters of death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal rally at Justice Dept.

Hundreds of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal—the political prisoner who has been held on Pennsylvania’s death-row for 28 years, accused of murdering a Philadelphia police officer—marched to the U.S. Department of Justice to deliver thousands of petitions to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a civil rights investigation of his case.
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