Category: Civil Rights
August 10, 2020
Police policy should be to retreat until more help arrives and/or family members of severely disturbed and uncooperative persons can be contacted and arrive. This should be the rule rather than the exception recognizing that circumstances may warrant an exception....
July 31, 2020
John Lewis was a preacher, Civil Rights Activist, and US Congressman from the State of Georgia. Representative Lewis died on July 17, 2020. Below is the information concerning him. The New Times article he wrote to be printed on the...
July 31, 2020
President Obama and his Administration established the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFHR). The goal is to affirmatively further the purposes and policies of the Fair Housing Act, which is Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. President...
July 3, 2020
*************************************************************** Update: On June 17, 2021 under President Biden Administration the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was made law establishing June 19th as a legal federal public annual holiday. Legal name of holiday is Juneteenth National Independence Day. The Act...
June 19, 2020
Update: Juneteenth was made a legal US annual public holiday in June 2021. See reference section for more info. On June 19, 1865 the General Order presented below was issued in the State of Texas. This day has become known...
June 1, 2020
Elements of the 2014 Gregory Hill incident in Florida is certainly problematic to me. According to a CNN article a jury in Florida awarded a family $4.00 for the 2014 death of Gregory Hill due to a shooting by a...
March 4, 2020
The Texarkana Gazette on March 4, 2020 published an Associated Press article entitled Arkansas high court candidate backed by GOP leaders takes an early lead. The Texarkana Gazette article is about the 2020 Arkansas State Supreme Court election. My article...
February 26, 2020
The below link is to an article about the 1968 March on Washington that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. planned to lead before his assassination as he and the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference (SCLC) and others sought to bridge...
April 12, 2019
President Trump has boldly and rightly reversed military directives allowing transgenders to enter and serve in the military openly without limitations. An ABC news article here addresses the change. Department of Defense documents on it may be found here Unfortunately,...
