National Women’s Law Center Campaign Responds to Recent Attacks on Reproductive Health
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A Look at African-American Trans Trailblazers
From Ebony: Transgender African Americans have been active contributors to history, even though they have often been overlooked. Their presence and contributions are not a recent development, but can be traced back through the centuries. Consider the story of Lucy Hicks Anderson, who was born in 1886 in Waddy, KY.…
Go to Trial – Crash the System
Michelle Alexander for The New York Times: After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: “What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people…
No, asteroid 2012 DA14 will not hit us next year
From Discovery Mag: February 2013: a close shave Next year, on February 15, 2013, DA14 will actually get pretty close to Earth. It will pass us at a distance of about 27,000 km (17,000 miles) — well beneath many of our own orbiting satellites! To the best of my knowledge,…
Wisconsin missing out on U.S. jobs gains
From JS: Wisconsin desperately needs new jobs. Alone among the 50 states, it has lost private-sector jobs for six straight months, raising the political and economic stakes of the next jobs report, due Thursday for the month of January. Even feeble job creation would bring a sense of relief to…
300-Million-Year-Old Forest Found in China
From INTMN: The preserved ancient forest was found under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China, and dates to the Permian period. If the concept of “298 million years ago” is a little hard to process, consider this description, from Gizmodo: “During the Permian, which extends from 299…
Tortifying Employment Discrimination
Charlie Sullivan (Seton Hall) has just posted on SSRN his article Tortifying Employment Discrimination. Here’s the abstract: Although Title VII is often described as a “statutory tort,” that label has, until recently, been mostly metaphorical. In Staub v. Proctor Hospital Corp., however, the Supreme Court took an important first step…
Chicago police chief pledges no NYPD-style spying on Muslims
From Chicago Tribune: For the first time in public, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy promised his department will never conduct blanket surveillance of Muslims like the New York Police Department did in Newark, N.J., when he was chief there. McCarthy addressed hundreds of Muslims on Saturday at the annual banquet…