The Cincinnati Republican lawmaker who championed changes to the state’s civil rights laws pertaining to employment during the previous session of the Ohio Legislature has resurrected effort in House Bill 2. Rep. Bill Seitz introduced earlier this month the measure which would bring in line the state’s employment civil rights protections with other states and [...]
A federal court of appeals this week affirmed judgment in favor of Richland County in a case involving allegations of civil rights violations. Glenn Tinney appealed from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio where he claimed that the Richland County prosecutor, assistant prosecutor and an investigator knowingly [...]
COLUMBUS — In Ohio’s decade-old voting lawsuit, federal appeals Judge Damon Keith said he was “deeply saddened and distraught” with a majority opinion in September and filled 11 pages with photographs of those slain in the fight for civil rights. Black and white faces of men, women and children — activists, students, a minister, a [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A once-thriving all-black settlement in the New Mexico desert is a ghost town that rarely appears on maps. Tour buses pass but never stop at a Houston building where Latino activists planned civil rights events. Motels that welcomed minority motorists along 1950s Route 66 sit abandoned. From a Civil War battlefield where [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. — Television spots aimed at educating voters about North Carolina’s voter ID law are being canceled. One million informational posters and push cards are outdated and most likely headed for the trash. Binders carefully created as election bibles for each of the state’s 2,700 precincts need a heavy edit, with no time to [...]