#civil-rights

#civil-rights

Three days after arriving, she said she felt her water break weeks before she was expected to give birth. McElroy, who was being held on charges stemming from an allegation of substance use during pregnancy, later discovered she had suffered a pregnancy complication that could have progressed into sepsis. According to the lawsuit, she informed a guard that her water had broken and believed she would be taken to a hospital for treatment. Instead, the complaint states that another guard who checked on her later that morning accused her of wetting herself and instructed her to return to her cell.

The law assigns the historically Black land-grant university a new role as a polytechnic institution and exerts significant state control over its pocketbook and programming as the institution stabilizes its finances. Among other provisions, the law requires the university to get state approval for purchases over $20,000 and limits its offerings to 10 academic areas of study over the period of financial exigency.

In 1965, the farmworkers who picked America's grapes lived in some of the harshest conditions in the country - paid below the minimum wage, housed in labor camps without running water, and denied the right to unionize.

The complaint alleges that Williams College treated Orthodox Jewish 'religious practice as incompatible with residential life on campus' and made the student 'feel unwelcome as a full-fledged and equal member of its campus community due to his religious beliefs.'

Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our voters, Landry said in a statement.

From the start, my motivation really has been my students. All students in Georgia. Far beyond. Also, teachers. If you don't have clear limits, then that traps you as an educator.

"If a state law directly regulates the conduct of the United States, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with federal functions or operations."

"The trauma of that day continues to affect every aspect of my life," José Pablo Henriquez Sagastume, a 20-year-old Allston Car Wash worker who was detained that day, said in a statement. "We were just doing our jobs when armed officers surrounded us and treated us like criminals. No one cared who we were. No one asked anything before grabbing me."

"This administration has ground fair housing enforcement to a halt. Worse, they're picking and choosing which protected classes count."

We trim your hedges/ We fight your wars/ Wait in the trenches/ And we fuck 'til we're sore. Boots on the ground is filled with social commentary, reflecting on the current state of society.