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Byline: Valerie Russ Nov. 4Philadelphia is seeking artists to create a statue to honor civil rights lawyer and economist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and is planning a public meeting on [...]

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court today ruled that disqualifying a timely vote due to a missing [...]

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Court rules that disqualifying mail ballots for a missing or incorrect handwritten date violates the [...]

With June recognized as Pride Month, FBI Philadelphia wants to remind the public of our role in investigating civil rights violations and hate crimes, as well as safety guidance to [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed PHILADELPHIA Nearly two years after the city of Philadelphia settled a federal class-action lawsuit over a jail system so understaffed that prisoners were stuck in their cells [...]

Byline: Julia Terruso PHILADELPHIA A radio spot airing in Philadelphia this month quotes President Joe Biden saying 'the civil rights issue of our time is transgender equality.' 'Really Joe?' the [...]

Byline: Issa Kabeer By Issa Kabeer March 28 2024 Community College is a beautiful place to start an academic journey. It allows the doors to be opened towards new opportunities. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman: Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), along with Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), today introduced [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- The following information was released by Pennsylvania State University - University Park: MLK Day 2024 is being celebrated with activities throughout January at several campuses Penn [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- The following information was released by Pennsylvania State University - University Park: MLK Day 2024 will be celebrated with activities throughout January at several campuses January [...]

Byline: Alaa Elassar and Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — The Philadelphia City Council passed a bill Thursday that bans the use of ski masks in parks, schools, [...]

Byline: Lynette Hazelton It was Election Day 1871, the first election since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto went to vote and found himself [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Voters have the power to elect a state Supreme Court justice who will stand [...]

PITTSBURGH, PAThe FBI Pittsburgh Field Office is engaged in a multifaceted nationwide effort to build public awareness of hate crimes and encourage reporting to law enforcement. FBI Pittsburgh has launched [...]

Byline: Jesse Bunch Feb. 27For the better part of a century, one Northwest Philadelphia building has demonstrated how faiths coexist in peace. The Masjidullah Center for Human Excellence started as [...]

Byline: Jesse Bunch Feb. 26For the better part of a century, one Northwest Philadelphia building has demonstrated how faiths coexist in peace. The Masjidullah Center for Human Excellence started as [...]

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Over $3 [...]

2023 JUL 6 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Business -- Current study results on Politics and Government have been published. According to news [...]

A former Philadelphia Department of Prisons sergeant pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia to a civil rights charge and falsification of records related to the use of excessive force [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of Justice: A former Philadelphia Department of Prisons sergeant pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia to a civil [...]

Byline: Jeremy Roebuck PHILADELPHIA During a visit to Philadelphia on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris cast the outcome of Pennsylvania's November elections as a crucial inflection point that could determine [...]

Washington, D.C: The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed an amicus curiae brief in Greenberg v. Lehocky, et al. NCLA opposes Pennsylvania officials attempt [...]

(GlobeNewswire) - The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed an amicus curiae brief in Greenberg v. Lehocky, et al. NCLA opposes Pennsylvania officials attempt [...]

HARRISBURG, PA -- The following information was released by Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democratic Caucus: 45% of nearly 43,000 Pennsylvania disenfranchised incarcerated people are African American, new report finds Rep. [...]

Byline: Athena Jones, CNN (CNN) -- A Pennsylvania school district is under fire for allegedly discriminating against LGBTQ students. After a months-long investigation, the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union filed [...]

Byline: Will Bunch May 24Another Monday, another bad Supreme Court decision, and I suddenly remembered what it was like starting grade school amid the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. -- The following information was released by the University of Pennsylvania: The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is joining Mural Arts Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Citizen in [...]

Byline: Alicia Roberts (KYW) -- Click here for updates on this story LANGHORNE, Pennsylvania (KYW) -- Two activists were arrested outside Sesame Place in Langhorne Saturday afternoon. Police say the [...]

Byline: Valerie Russ Sep. 7Gregory Brinkley, a former president of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Action Network, a civil rights organization founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, died Saturday, [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled today [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Dear Members of the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee: Human Rights Watch ('HRW') is a nonprofit international human [...]

Byline: Ammar Kalia, Hannah Verdier, Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall and Paul Howlett Philly DA 10pm, BBC Four A remarkable eight-part series from Storyville, following the election of outsider and progressive [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed Jun. 3The Philadelphia Department of Prisons has been locked in federal litigation for more than a year with civil rights lawyers who say conditions are unsanitary, cleaning [...]

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney [...]

Byline: Vinny Vella May 21The ACLU of Pennsylvania has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, contending that a restrictive new policy governing how lawyers [...]

PITTSBURGH, PATogether with FBI headquarters and field offices throughout the nation, the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office is engaged in a multifaceted statewide effort to build public awareness of hate crimes [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. -- The following information was released by the University of Pennsylvania: Penn's Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS) is working towards protecting places that celebrate, [...]

Byline: Charlie Savage The former president's defense team brings together an Alabama civil rights and criminal defense lawyer and a former Pennsylvania prosecutor best known for not charging Bill Cosby. [...]

2022 APR 21 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Investigators publish new report on Global Views - Social History. According to news [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Mincey Fitzpatrick Ross will file a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Pennsylvania Rep. Madeleine Dean: Last night, the House passed H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Today the Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling that one taxpayer-funded religious agency in [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed Oct. 24As police investigated the 1985 double murder of Luis and Hector Camacho in broad daylight in North Philadelphia, all evidence seemed to point to a prime [...]

Byline: Lucy Davies Between 1935 and 1975, Charles 'Teenie' Harris worked as a photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier, documenting the African-American community throughout some of the most transformative years in [...]

Byline: Jeremy Roebuck July 19-- Jul. 19--Even as Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis accepted the 2016 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center four years ago, the [...]

Byline: Jeremy Roebuck July 18-- Jul. 18--Even as Georgia congressman and lion of the civil rights movement John Lewis accepted the 2016 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center four [...]