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December 16th, 2009

Posted By Mel Gagarin | December 16th, 2009 | Category: Media Watch | No Comments » Print This Post Print This Post

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LDF News and Media Today:

D.C. to pay $8.25 million to settle mass arrest suit

The D.C. government and a nonprofit civil rights organization have settled a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of protesters and bystanders arrested during a downtown demonstration in 2002.

In push for gender equity, turnabout is not fair play

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has launched an investigation to determine whether universities have met this quandary by discriminating against qualified young women and lowering admissions standards for less-qualified male applicants.
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Montgomery Settles Lawsuit in Civil Rights Case

(Montgomery) Montgomery has settled a substantial lawsuit with a biracial couple who says city police violated their civil rights. The Eastern Kanawha County city settled a lawsuit with Twan and Lauren Reynolds for around $500,000, but Montgomery did not admit guilt.

U.S. Civil Rights Commission: Racially Discriminatory Provisions in Obamacare

On December 10th,the United States Commission on Civil Rights voted 5-1 to send this letter (pdf) to President Barack Obama and the Senate leadership about racially discriminatory provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. The Commissioners writes:

Obama expected to sign Till bill

President Barack Obama is expected to sign later this week legislation that would include funding to pursue and prosecute those responsible for killings during the civil rights era.

Erma Henderson, Detroit’s first black city councilwoman, dies at 92

Erma Henderson, a civil rights advocate who became the first black woman elected to the Detroit City Council, died Monday. She was 92.

Transgender State Workers Expected to Gain Bias Protection

Gov. David A. Paterson plans to extend antidiscrimination protections to transgender state employees, a decision that signifies the broadest inclusion yet of transgender people in state policy, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter.

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