by Press | May 1, 2018 | Newsclips
The first black woman to serve as American University’s student government president has sued a neo-Nazi website’s publisher, accusing him of orchestrating an online harassment campaign against her. Taylor Dumpson’s federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Washington, says...
by Press | May 1, 2018 | Newsclips
Taylor Dumpson, American University’s first female, black student-government president, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Daily Stormer, its publisher, Andrew Anglin, and a few of the neo-Nazi website’s readers, asserting that the site had encouraged...
by Press | Apr 28, 2018 | Newsclips
(CNN)Texas will be allowed to enforce its voter ID law in the upcoming elections, a federal appeals court has ruled. In the 2-1 decision, a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned a lower court ruling that had blocked the law last year...
by Press | Apr 27, 2018 | Newsclips
HOUSTON — A federal appeals court upheld Texas’ voter identification law on Friday, saying that it does not discriminate against black and Hispanic voters. The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans,...
by Press | Apr 20, 2018 | Newsclips
By Joseph P. Williams Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was signed, America is nearly as segregated as when President Lyndon Johnson signed the law. IT WAS DESIGNED AS BOTH an antidote to rampant housing discrimination under Jim Crow and a path for...