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The House of Representatives voted 232-188 on Wednesday to pass the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act (H.R. 2574), which would allow private individuals to file lawsuits under the Civil Rights Act’s Title VI authority, allowing students and parents to remedy discrimination in education.
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The Supreme Court decided on June 15 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination.
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A former corrections officer with the Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg was sentenced yesterday to 54 months in prison for willfully making false statements to federal agents during a federal criminal civil rights investigation.
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Attorney General Mark Herring today filed a brief opposing the Trump administration’s attempts to dismiss his landmark civil rights lawsuit that seeks to ensure that the Equal Rights Amendment is recognized as the 28th Amendment.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruling that the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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The Voting Rights Act was signed in 1965. The Civil Rights Act was a year earlier. The Supreme Court started us on the path toward school desegregation in 1954. Where we’ve been for the past half-century isn’t not having enough laws. It’s about the people responsible for seeing to it that they’re followed to the letter.
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The ACLU of Virginia has launched [email protected], an email hotline designated to receive information regarding civil rights and civil liberties violations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Shenandoah University is celebrating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a weeklong slate of events meant to explore resistance and activism throughout history.
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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, announced today its endorsements for 27 pro-equality candidates across Virginia.
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
