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Chobani Yogurt announces it will pay off all of Rhode Island Warwick School District's lunch debt
The school district was about to implement a policy that students who had outstanding school lunch debt would only be served sunflow seeds or PB&J sandwiches
Chobani Yogurt announces it will pay off all of Rhode Island Warwick School District's lunch debt
Earlier this week reports came out that the Warwick School District in Rhode Island was about to implement a policy that students who had outstanding ...
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”We’re one people, we’re one family. We all live in the same house. We must respect dignity and worth of every human being.”
Pro-equality champion @RepJohnLewis draws parallels to the civil rights movement in his plea for Congress to pass the #EqualityAct.
Congrats @Demos_Org @ACLUTx @LawyersComm @TXCivilRights
#Texas ends its efforts to purge citizens from the voter rolls.
“Naturalized Americans have full and equal voting rights — they cannot be singled out & purged from the rolls due to their status.”
Settlement Reached to End Texas Voter Purge and Protect Voting Rights | Demos
”This settlement acknowledges that naturalized Americans have full and equal voting rights â they cannot be singled out and purged from the...
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Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies
Russian intelligence officers injected malicious SQL code and then ran commands to extract information
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Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies
Russian officers injected malicious SQL code and extracted information, they also sent spearphishing emails to election officials company executives.
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Woman Seeks $1.5M in Damages From Neo-Nazi Website Founder
In a court filing Monday, we asked a federal judge in Washington for a default judgment against The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin
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"The House Judiciary Committee’s passage of the #EqualityAct marks a watershed moment in the fight to secure equal rights for the LGBTQ community."
We joined @HRC and partnered in the fight to pass this vital piece of legislation.
National Racial Justice Organizations Applaud House Judiciary Committee‘s Historic Passage of H.R. 5, the Equality Act | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Washington, D.C. â Today, in response to the House Judiciary Committee‘s vote to advance H.R. 5, also known as the Equality Act, the Urban ...
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“This is part of a longstanding pattern with this administration of instituting anti-immigrant policies. This one is particularly callous because it will no doubt result in children being rendered homeless.” @KristenClarkeJD
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HUD Says Its Proposed Limit on Public Housing Aid Could Displace 55,000 Children
The proposal, published on Friday, would prohibit families with at least one undocumented immigrant from obtaining public housing benefits.
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Tennessee lawmakers have passed a bill that would impose new restrictions on groups conducting voter registration.
We sat down with some of our attorneys to discuss the legislative efforts to chill voter registration in #Tennessee.
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Tennessee lawmakers are using Jim Crow-era tactics to suppress the vote.
Last week, we filed suit to STOP them.
Non-profits, churches, museums and groups that register people to vote should not be subject to criminal penalties and fines.
New Tennessee law punishes voter signup missteps; suit filed
Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that would likely make Tennessee the first to fine voter registration groups for turning in too many incomplete s...
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Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
The proposed rule change is "as mean-spirited and irrational as the Trump Administration's other anti-immigrant policy positions." @KristenClarkeJD
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Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
Housing and Urban Development has proposed a new rule that would prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing aid. The result could ...
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Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American from Chicago, was taken into custody in Texas following the confrontational 2015 traffic stop and was found hanging in a jail cell three days later in what was officially ruled a suicide.
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New: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegal voting, is getting help with her appeal from some of the top voting rights lawyers in the country. @ACLU and @TXCivilRights announced today they're joining her legal team https://t.co/StgpayxAUL
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