Justice
June 22, 2009 -
Last week in a presentation before the U.N. Human Rights Council, the United Nations special rapporteur on racism offered recommendations to the United States to address its ongoing issues of racial discrimination.During May and June former UN special rapporteur on racism, DoudouDiene, toured the United States to gather information on issues relatedto racism and and discrimination. The report on his findings came the same week
June 19, 2009 -
As we celebrate Juneteenth today, here's a short piece explaining the holiday that we ran on Facing South last year. Enjoy! Today is Juneteenth,a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finallytold they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Leesurrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.The slave mastershad never bothered to tell them that slavery was officially over in1863; it took Union General Gordon Granger riding into Galveston with
June 16, 2009 -
By Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur
June 16, 2009 -
A coalition of immigrant and civil rights groups held a vigil in front of the Atlanta headquarters of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week to mark the three-month anniversary of Roberto Martinez Medina's de
June 12, 2009 -
As the situation of prisoners at Guantanamo continues to inform the national debate around incarceration, more and more observers are pointing out that Gitmo is far from America's only prison problem.The pri