After hearing two months of testimony, a federal judge will now decide whether Alabama鈥檚 troubled prison system violates the rights of prisoners by failing to provide adequate mental health care.
After hearing two months of testimony, a federal judge will now decide whether Alabama鈥檚 troubled prison system violates the rights of prisoners by failing to provide adequate mental health care.
In the first days after the 2016 presidential election, the 澳彩开奖鈥檚 Teaching Tolerance project administered an online survey to K鈥12 educators from across the country. Over 10,000 teachers, counselors, administrators and others who work in schools have responded. The survey data indicate that the results of the election are having a profoundly negative impact on schools and students. Ninety percent of educators report that school climate has been negatively affected, and most of them believe it will have a long-lasting impact. A full 80 percent describe heightened anxiety and concern on the part of students worried about the impact of the election on themselves and their families.
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to deport up to 3 million people, an investigation of immigrant detention centers in the South has found that detainees are routinely denied their due process rights and frequently endure inhumane conditions in isolated facilities that have little oversight from the federal government.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been a central figure in the nativist movement for more than a decade and is the architect of Arizona鈥檚 notorious 鈥減apers please鈥 law as well as a series of other anti-immigrant statutes enacted by states and municipalities in the past decade.聽
Kelly Green was off the medication he needed for his schizophrenia and was talking about killing himself. Alarmed by the homeless man鈥檚 erratic behavior on a cold Oregon night in February 2013, a convenience store clerk called the police.
On September 30, 2016, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore for the remainder of his term for defying federal court rulings in regard to same-sex marriage. It was the culmination of a judicial career spanning 25 years in which he often put his personal views above the law and the U.S. Constitution, frequently bringing religion into the courtroom and basing judicial opinions on his Biblical beliefs. He was also removed from office in 2003 for disobeying a federal court order to remove a granite monument to the Ten Commandments from the state judicial building. Here is a timeline of events:
This is a report about junk science and some of the people who propagate it. It is not about silly, perhaps amusing theories about ESP or life on the moon or even purported miracle cures for cancer. The 鈥渟cience鈥 examined here actively harms people, leading with grim regularity to suicide, depression and an array of self-destructive behaviors. It demeans, defames and defrauds human beings, typically at their most vulnerable moments. And, as if that weren鈥檛 enough, it regularly lays the blame for the alleged malady of homosexuality at the feet of gay people鈥檚 parents, despite the fact that they are wholly innocent.
After being indoctrinated online into the world of white supremacy and inspired by a racist hate group, Dylann Roof told friends he wanted to start a 鈥渞ace war.鈥 Someone had to take 鈥渄rastic action鈥 to take back America from 鈥渟tupid and violent鈥 African Americans, he wrote.
Across the South, Americans of all races, ethnicities and creeds are asking why governmental bodies in a democracy based on the promise of equality should display symbols so closely associated with the bondage and oppression of African Americans.
Our report found that the campaign is producing an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom. Many students worry about being deported.
Now, more than ever, we must work together to protect the values that ensure a fair and inclusive future for all.