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December 3rd, 2009

Posted By Mel Gagarin | December 3rd, 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.

Former Solicitor General Feels the Wrath of Senators

John Payton, the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund sitting to Garre’s right, denounced the Supreme Court’s decisions.

At Senate Judiciary Committee Iqbal Rollback Hearing, Dems Go After Former SG Garre; Federal Rules Committee Report Says No Drastic Change in Pleading Standards

(Garre’s written testimony is available here, along with the statements of Burbank and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund president John Payton.
Report Examines Civil Rights During Bush Years
Congress is set to release that report, which did not identify the state in question, on Thursday as the House of Representatives takes up its first oversight hearing of the Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration.

Collaboration, not confrontation, marks another county’s response to jail probe

Westchester County officials were told in 2007 that the U. S. Justice Department would investigate their jail, where an officer years earlier beat a mentally ill inmate into a coma and caused his death.

Voting for Discrimination

The New York State Senate held an emotional debate on Wednesday in which there was talk of belief and conscience and eloquent reminders of earlier civil rights struggles. It then took a stand against equality and fairness.

Minorities, immigrants focus of 3-day forum

Jobs, education and workers’ rights are among the issues that should bind, rather than divide, immigrants and the African-American community, say organizers of the three-day Unity Conference commencing today in Jackson.

The Politically Correct World of Real Estate

n 1968, the United States Government passed Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968 and created a policy to create fairness in housing. It states that it is unlawful to discriminate in the sale, rental and financing of housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin. In 2006, the State of Washington included sex orientation. The policy also goes on to say that it is unlawful to publish anything that may limit or discriminate any of the above.

State joins lawsuit on housing

The Division on Civil Rights has thrown its support behind a woman who sued a Mercer County apartment complex charging unlawful source-of-income discrimination.

East Haven Police Being Investigated Over Racial Bias Complaints

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating allegations of “patterns or practices of discrimination” by the East Haven police department, a spokesman said Wednesday evening.
African-American joblessness – nearly twice the national rate – is quickly becoming the first showdown between Black leaders and the nation’s first Black president as national Black and civil right leaders raise their voices telling the Obama Administration it’s time to end the jobs crisis in the Black community.
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