North Little Rock honors civil rights pioneers with school renaming
Friday, the new name of 7th Street Elementary was unveiled as North Little Rock 6 Academy Agricultural and Veterinary ...
‘Such Small Steps.’ States Without Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives Leave Abortion-Rights Advocates With Little Recourse
It essentially leaves us powerless when we're talking about adding initiatives that people actually care about on the ballot." ...
Statue of the late US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, is unveiled in his native Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama’s ...
Nature5d
Civil engineering articles from across Nature Portfolio
The ground beneath cities is warming and deforming owing to subsurface urban heat islands. Here, I discuss questions whose answers can help to develop the cross-disciplinary knowledge needed to ...
Imperial College London16d
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Discover how an Imperial alumnus leveraged his experience and research at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to create a TIME Best Invention smart cane. We train the next generation ...
Washington Monthly17d
Why They Reign Supreme
The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...
Associated Press21d
1960s civil rights protesters who staged historic sit-in finally have arrest records cleared
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Charles Barr, left, and Simon Bouie, right, wait for a hearing to start where their records were cleared ...
WIS TV21d
Criminal records cleared for Columbia activists whose 1960s sit-ins led to Civil Rights Act
The Supreme Court threw out the convictions of these seven men just days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. Many believe their civil disobedience and these cases ultimately ...
The Irish Times23d
The Provisional IRA’s campaign was never about civil rights
Given my own involvement in the 1960s Northern Ireland civil ... rights reforms following the civil rights marches of August, October and November 1968, putting pressure on Terence O’Neill to act.
The New York Times25d
THE RIGHTS OF THOUGHT.
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in ...
Forbes25d
20 Years On, The North Korean Human Rights Act Remains Lapsed
October 18 th marked 20 years since the North Korean Human Rights Act (NKHRA) was signed into law. The NKHRA is landmark legislation demonstrating U.S. commitment to defend the rights of the North ...
American Bar Association25d
Keep Moving Forward: Preserving the Integrity of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was, to date, the most sweeping civil rights legislation enacted in the United States, promising “to promote a more abiding commitment to freedom, a more constant pursuit ...