| June 10, 2008 | - Research showed that same-sex marriages are more egalitarian than opposite-sex marriages.
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New York Times
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| November 24, 2006 | - A conference of Muslim scholars in Cairo denounced female circumcision.
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BBC
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| October 26, 2006 | - Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti of Sydney, Australia's largest mosque, compared unveiled women to “uncovered meat.” “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside,” said the mufti, “and the cats come to eat it . . . whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
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Guardian
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| March 8, 2006 | - Photographer and director Gordon Parks died.
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The Washington Post
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| February 9, 2006 | - The U.S. Air Force, under pressure from evangelical Christians, changed its religious tolerance guidelines to allow for religious intolerance.
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AP via Forbes
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| January 31, 2006 | -
Coretta Scott King died.
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MSNBC
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| December 2, 2005 | - A U.S. federal judge determined that it is constitutional for the New York City
Police to randomly search passengers' bags on the subway.
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Reuters
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| November 23, 2005 | - After three years in prison, U.S. citizen Jose Padilla was indicted on charges that he conspired to murder individuals overseas and provide support for terrorists; no mention was made of prior accusations that Padilla intended to use a “dirty bomb” or claims that he conspired with Al Qaeda to blow up U.S. apartment buildings. “The indictment,” explained a former Justice Department official, “is doubtless a strategy by the Bush Administration to avoid a Supreme Court ruling that would likely hold that U.S. citizens cannot be detained incommunicado as enemy combatants if they are detained on U.S. soil.”
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| July 26, 2005 | - In New York City, subway crime dropped 23 percent in the wake of random bag searches.
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WNBC.com
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| June 29, 2005 | -
Canada's parliament voted to allow gay
marriages.
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BBC News
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| June 25, 2005 | - The NAACP named former Verizon
executive Bruce S. Gordon as president.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| June 23, 2005 | - In Mississippi, Edgar Ray Killen, an eighty-year-old former Baptist preacher, was sentenced to sixty years in jail for organizing the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 26, 2005 | - Three hundred thousand residents of Beijing have been moved out of their homes to make room for the 2008 Olympics; some of those who protested the evictions have been jailed.
| Source:
Times Online
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| May 19, 2005 | - A researcher found that Malcolm X had enjoyed sex with men.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| April 1, 2005 | - Ms. Wheelchair
Wisconsin was stripped of her title after she was caught standing up.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - A falling tree crushed the legs of Edgar Killen, a Mississippi
Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klansman currently facing trial for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 10, 2005 | - All 790 men in Truro, Massachusetts, were asked to submit to a DNA test so that they could prove their innocence in a three-year-old murder case.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 10, 2004 | -
President Bush appointed attorney Gerald Reynolds to the chairmanship of the Commission of Civil Rights. "I just assume somewhere in my life some knucklehead has looked at me and my brown self and said that they have given me less or denied me an opportunity," he said, "but the bottom line is . . . I am so insensitive that I probably didn't notice."
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | - The mayor of Riyadh announced that no foreign observers would be welcome in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, nor would women be able to participate as voters, or candidates.
| Source:
Arab News
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| September 30, 2004 | - A federal judge struck down a provision of the USA Patriot Act that permitted the FBI to carry out secret searches of Internet and telephone records but prevented companies from revealing that the searches had taken place. John Ashcroft said that the act is "completely consistent with the United States Constitution."
| Source:
Associated Press
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| September 23, 2004 | - After maintaining for three years that Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, was so grave a threat to the United States that merely permitting him to meet with his lawyer would fatally compromise national security, the Bush Administration (having been told by Justice Antonin Scalia that "the very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive") declined to defend its case against Hamdi in open court and announced that he will be stripped of his citizenship and released in Saudi Arabia.
| Source:
Boston Globe, Washington Post, ZNet
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| March 26, 2004 | - Police no longer need search warrants in Louisiana, an appeals court said, though the judgment was supposedly limited to "brief searches"; two dissenting judges denounced the ruling as the "road to Hell."
| Source:
New Orleans Channel
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| December 18, 2003 | - The Department of Justice filed suit against Mississippi for abusing juvenile prisoners. "We found evidence of systematic abuses including hog-tying and pole-shackling," said Alex Acosta, an assistant attorney general for civil rights. "It was even reported that girls, overcome by the heat during drills, were forced to eat their own vomit."
| Source:
CNN
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| December 16, 2003 | - The Bush Administration announced that it plans to let companies buy and sell the right to release mercury
pollution into the environment, a policy considered and rejected by the EPA in 2000 as inconsistent with the Clean Air Act.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 3, 2003 | - The Pentagon decided to permit Yaser Hamdi, an American citizen who has been held as an enemy combatant for two years, to have access to his lawyer, though officials continued to insist that Hamdi has no constitutional right to an attorney.
| Source:
Ft. Worth Star Telegram
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| November 22, 2003 | - The Department of Homeland Security was reportedly planning to abandon its program requiring most Arab and Muslim foreign men to register with the government. Sources said the program was expensive, inefficient, and useless.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 19, 2003 | - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that homosexuals have the right to get married.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 18, 2003 | - Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan heard arguments over the indefinite detention of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was arrested in Chicago last year and declared an "enemy combatant." A government lawyer said that "Al Qaeda made the battlefield the United States"; an opposing lawyer said that "the president seeks an unchecked power to substitute military power for the rule of law"; Judge Rosemary Pooler observed that "as terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution."
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 21, 2003 | - An internal Justice Department report identified 34 "credible" complaints of civil-rights violations by department employees related to new powers under the USA Patriot Act; more than one thousand complaints were reviewed.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 4, 2001 | - Attorney General John Ashcroft said he wanted to rewrite the FBI's guidelines to allow the agency to spy on domestic political and religious groups; the rules in question were imposed in the 1970s because of significant civil-rights abuses that occurred under the J. Edgar Hoover regime.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights released its report on the Florida
election, concluding that blacks were widely disenfranchised by the actions of state officials and calling for an investigation by the Justice Department.
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| May 1, 2001 | - After a construction worker at New York's Kennedy International Airport complained about a new mural to the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the artist voluntarily painted a loincloth over the genitals of Jesus, who originally was depicted naked and crucified.
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| April 17, 2001 | - The United States
Civil Rights Commission said that it was time to stop using American Indian names and images for sports teams.
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| January 2, 2001 | - Vandals broke into the Civil Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, and ripped up about 30 photographs of state troopers beating marchers on Bloody Sunday in 1965; a Ku Klux Klan hood was stolen from the museum two weeks ago.
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| December 12, 2000 | - The United States Commission on Civil Rights
voted to open a “systematic investigation” of voting irregularities in Florida.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Governor Jeb Bush of Florida restored Charles W. Colson's civil rights; Colson, who was convicted in the Watergate scandal, is a born-again Christian and the author of several apocalyptic Christian thrillers.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Paul Miller, the U.S. equal opportunities commissioner, wrote an article calling for legal protection for the genetically challenged; civil rights activists have documented over 200 cases of genetic discrimination by employers.
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| August 22, 2000 | - An FBI agent admitted that he had given false testimony in a bail hearing for Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who has been held without bail for nine months for mishandling nuclear secrets; civil rights groups argue that Lee was singled out for prosecution because of his Chinese ancestry.
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