Civil Rights

Letter: Join Somerville's Human Rights Commission and Community Access Project

25 May 2012

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) presents an integrated volunteer opportunity for residents to represent very important ongoing civil rights issues in Somerville while serving city government.

Let's Stop Comparing Education to the Civil Rights Movement

25 May 2012

This week,  Mitt Romney said that fixing education "is the civil rights issue of our era. It's the great challenge of our time." The statement implies that students are being purposefully and systematically denied an education, and calls to mind the infamous photo of one of the Little Rock Nine, Elizabeth Eckford, as she attempted to enter Little Rock High School and was turned away by the ...

Waukee police tangled in civil rights grievances

25 May 2012

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