Wendy Greene has just posted her article “Black Women Can’t Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace” on SSRN. The abstract: This Article introduces a recent string of “hair stories” involving the regulation of Black women’s blonde hair in the workplace. At first glance, these “hair stories” appear…
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From ABA Journal: A Mississippi judge who held a lawyer in contempt and jailed him after he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court will be disciplined. Finding that Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn abused his contempt powers, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld, in a ruling released yesterday, a…
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The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential decision that states opposing governmental corruption may give rise to an asylum claim. In Matter of N- M- [pdf], 25 I&N Dec. 526 (BIA 2011), the BIA stated: (1) Opposition to state corruption may, in some circumstances, constitute the expression of political…
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The 6th Circuit found no ethical violation with a federal judge’s membership in an all-white country club. Cannons 2A of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges prohibits the appearance of impropriety and 2C prohibits membership in a discriminatory organization. The commentary for 2C states: in lieu of resigning,…
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From Change.org: Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) are going on an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike was organized by prisoners in an unusual show of racial…
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Take Back the Land is a nation-wide movement to elevate housing to the level of a human right and secure community control over land. (3)
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Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, removed from the governor’s mansion “Wishes in the Wind,” a painting of three children of different races, replacing it with a century-old painting of a pre-Civil War eagle. From the Journal Sentinel: Earlier this year, the governor and first lady Tonette Walker took down…
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Check out the amazing work of Moses Sanga and Eco-fuel Africa Limited. Upon returning to his native W. Uganda, he “discovered that almost all of the trees had been cut down to clear land for agriculture and for use as fuelwood, which in turn has caused drastic climate change. Because…
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