That is not the Seattle Mariners record for the month of July (bless the continued existence of the Kansas City Royals) but the win/loss record for same sex marriage in the league of direct democracy. This streak might change in November. Washington's Referendum 74 will...
civil rights
Given the times we live in, it's worth recognizing those who believed that gay rights was the next phase of the rights struggle when many did not. Such as Huey.
On this date in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray while in Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers. In the spring.
I would like to buck the conventional wisdom, but I agree with everybody that the grant of cert in Fisher v. UT Austin is almost certainly the end of affirmative action in higher education. Certainly, four of the necessary votes are not in question: The...
We should perhaps celebrate the real MLK, as opposed to the complacent defender of purely formal equality that conservatives would prefer to imagine him as: At the end of his.
Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights hero who was arrested while attending my alma mater and ended his career teaching at my native province's flagship university, passed away at age 93. .
Most of us have a strong impression of Black Power--dudes in sunglasses and afros holding big guns and talking about violence. That was the impression that a lot of left-leaning white people had at the time too. But Instead of something to disapprove of, it...
Michael Medved argues: "Nevertheless, Brewer met justice nine years more promptly than the African-American, Davis. In any just society, the race of the perpetrator—or victim—should have no bearing on the.
I suspect Paul will have more to say about the passing of this giant of the American legal academy. The same could be said about almost any paragraph in his.
Sad loss of one of the last living great civil rights leaders from the minister-dominated wing of the movement. Shuttlesworth was most noted for his organization of the Birmingham actions, but throughout the movement was a tough, action-oriented leader who could push King out of...
I have a column for the Prospect arguing that Scalia's evaluation of the discrimination claims in Wal-Mart v. Dukes is part of a long-running conservative con: The problem with ignoring.
This is a day where death has dominated the headlines--Jack Kevorkian, the American economy, Marshall Matt Dillon. But I want to say a special word about the recently deceased Geronimo.