Martin Luther King Day Breakfast
The National Action Network (NAN) held its annual breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel. Featured speakers included Housing and Urban Development …
877 viewsThe National Action Network (NAN) held its annual breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel. Featured speakers included Housing and Urban Development …
877 viewsBetsey Stevenson made opening remarks at a discussion on pay discrimination in the workplace. She outlined President Obama’s two executive orders he signed earlier in the day to address the …
790 viewsJacqueline Berrien testified about Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) policies and practices. Much of the hearing was focused on the agency’s reasons for changing its guidance on…
572 viewsThe President’s Middle Class Task Force and Council on Women and Girls talked about the Paycheck Fairness Act, which sought wage equality for women. President Obama was urging the Senate to …
366 viewsWitnesses testified about a proposed bill to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. The bill would clarify that an employer may not discriminate against an employee on the b…
610 viewsParticipants talked about the progress on redistricting in several states as a result of the 2000 Census. Among the topics they addressed were the potential for lawsuits, the methodology of …
845 viewsThe duBois Institute hosted a conference marking the 100th anniversary of the Plessy v. Ferguson U.S. Supreme Court decision which was argued in April 1896. In this session a panel of attorn…
119 viewsThe participants reviewed the Voting Rights Act and some of the issues they see as important to the African-American community. They also answered questions from the audience.
63 viewsThe panelists discussed such civil rights issues as voting rights, and the question of gerrymandering in an effort to redraw districts to increase minority representation.
211 viewsCases discussed: Patterson v. McClean Credit Union is an attempt by Ms. Patterson to sue her employer on charges of racial harassment. A decision on this case could reverse the previous opi…
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