“This bill simply protects children to be placed in homes that agree with their stated religious and moral convictions,” said Republican Senator Paul Rose. News Channel 5: The Tennessee State Senate voted to pass a MORE
The American South in the post-Reconstruction era was a land of broken promises and brutal oppression for African Americans, as white leaders stripped former slaves of many of the civil and voting rights they’d won MORE
St. Louis’s First Black Chief Prosecutor Sues City, Police Union, Accusing them of Racist Conspiracy to Push Her Out of Office Source: When Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act in 1871, its goal was to empower MORE
A United Nations committee working to end racism is urging Canada to immediately stop the construction of three major resource projects in B.C. until it obtains approval from affected First Nations. The committee on the MORE
***Begins at approximately the 45 second mark. More than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans have been detained at length and questioned at the US border with Canada, according to advocacy groups, as the crisis over the killing of Qassem Soleimaniescalates. MORE
“Your job is your job. Your job has nothing to do with religion,” the manager says on one of the videos. The job requires a specific uniform. [The hijab] is not a part of the MORE
The most recent attack came from the “Interior Department — which manages the majority of the federal government’s public lands — deleted “sexual orientation” from its anti-discrimination guidelines.” In the three years Trump has occupied MORE
California vastly expands digital privacy. Will people use it? Source: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Forty million Californians will soon have sweeping digital-privacy rights stronger than any seen before in the U.S., posing a significant challenge MORE
Elizabeth Fegan, the lead attorney representing the women who are part of the original class action lawsuit and all future claimants who choose to join it, could receive up to 25% of the payout if MORE
Washington (CNN)The Republican-controlled Senate quietly cut the phrase “white nationalist” from a measure in the National Defense Authorization Act, which was intended to explicitly address the threat of white nationalists in the military, altering the MORE
When Kamala Harris dropped out two weeks ago, it hit Cory Booker hard. She may have been his rival in the race for the Democratic nomination, but her exit represented something bigger. If Harris — MORE
“Removing access doesn’t make people healthier-” Andy Beshear Newly elected Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) on Monday formally rescinded the state’s controversial Medicaid work requirements enacted by his Republican predecessor, Matt Bevin. During a news conference, MORE
Facebook on Tuesday told the Trump administration that it would not create a backdoor for law enforcement in its messaging encryption, saying that doing so would threaten users’ safety. In a letter from the executives MORE
The ACLU is suing the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the DEA to get documents that explain how the US government is using facial recognition technology. The lawsuit came after the government denied the ACLU’s request MORE
The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley faced a storm of criticism on Friday after she said the Confederate battle flag represented “service and sacrifice and heritage” before it was “hijacked” by Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed MORE
An American Airlines passenger flying from Key West, FL to Las Vegas, NV in October was forced by the airline crew to cover her black T-shirt during the flight because it featured the text, “HAIL MORE
[T]he Tucson 12’s case sits at the intersection of some of the most troubling recent patterns toward the persecution of dissent: the repression of those who protest the integrated systems of mass incarceration and deportation; MORE
“After reviewing the subject matter of the 2019 Fall edition of Due South, we must respectfully decline to print this issue of the publication,” Tracey Smith, a spokesperson for Interstate Printing, wrote in an email MORE
LOVELAND, Colo. — The City of Loveland will pay a woman who was issued a summons for playing Frisbee topless a $50,000 settlement, according to a final settlement agreement signed Thursday. Effie Krokos, 20, was MORE
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a man was shot to death at a Waffle House after calling other patrons racist slurs and starting a fight. The GBI says Butts County deputies responded Halloween night MORE
The demonstrations began several weeks ago when “the county Board of Commissioners decided last month to give the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which donated the statue to the county in 1907, until Oct. 1 to come up with a plan for its future.” MORE
In a pair of exceptionally hard-fought arguments on Tuesday, the Supreme Court struggled to decide whether a landmark 1964 civil rights law bars employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status MORE
In July, Joshua Payne-Elliott filed a lawsuit against his former employer, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, claiming the Dioceses “illegally interfered with his contractual and employment relationship with Cathedral High School.” Mr. Payne-Elliot is gay and MORE