A federal judge has warned an Arkansas forestry company that he will rule against it if company representatives continue to intimidate workers interested in joining an °Ä²Ê¿ª½± class action lawsuit accusing the company of cheating foreign guestworkers out of pay.
The following is a letter from °Ä²Ê¿ª½± President Richard Cohen to CNN President Jonathan Klein.
The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has won the return of almost $20,000 to a Latino migrant farmworker whose money was taken by police during a traffic stop in Alabama despite criminal charges never being brought against him.
Mary Bauer, who has directed the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±'s Immigrant Justice Project since its inception in 2004, has been named as the °Ä²Ê¿ª½±'s new legal director, effective Aug. 1.
Migrant workers who alleged they were forced to work for months without pay and endure squalid living conditions as they repaired apartments in the New Orleans area will finally be paid for their work under a settlement the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has reached with their employers.
In partnership with HBO and director-producer Paul Saltzman, the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has created a six-lesson teacher's guide for use with HBO's documentary "Prom Night in Mississippi," which chronicles the social boundaries crossed by students when their high school hosted its first integrated prom.
Here's a question to ponder: Who poses more of a threat to the good order of the military, not to mention our national security?
The °Ä²Ê¿ª½± today urged Congress to investigate growing evidence that racial extremists are infiltrating the U.S. military and take steps to ensure that the armed forces are not inadvertently training future domestic terrorists.
Children and teens at a Mississippi juvenile detention center will no longer be locked in cells all day without reason or forced to sleep on the floor in a squalid, overcrowded facility following an agreement the °Ä²Ê¿ª½± has reached in a federal lawsuit.
Five black youths accused of beating a white high school student in Jena, La., amid racial tension sparked by nooses hung on the high school campus, have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor simple battery charges as part of an agreement to resolve a case that sparked a massive civil rights protest on their behalf.
