Category: civil rights

Linton’s Barbershop Preserves a Key Moment in Civil Rights History

Tucked away in the West End neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, and next to what used to be a hugely popular local attraction, Maggie’s Diner, sits a humble white brick barbershop, complete with a spinning barber pole. From the outside, the shop does not hint at the treasures found inside. Beyond the old barbershop chair, and beyond…


Lyoya Family Lawyers Respond to Grand Rapids Police Shooting Videos

Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed on April 4 during a confrontation with a white policeman following an 8 a.m. traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The incident was captured on video by at least four cameras—the dashboard camera of the squad car, the officer’s bodycam, the cellphone of a passenger in…


Debunking NY Times’ and Obama’s Absurd Narrative About Racism in America | Larry Elder

According to Henry Louis Gates Jr. and The New York Times, the original civil rights movement died on April 4, 1968, with the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Really? Also, the contemporary civil rights movement unfolded directly in response to the death of Trayvon Martin. Really? Does this mean the election of Barack Obama…


Chauvin Expected to Plead Guilty in Floyd Civil Rights Case

MINNEAPOLIS—Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin appears to be on the verge of pleading guilty to violating George Floyd’s civil rights, a move that would remove him from a federal trial but could significantly increase the amount of time he’ll spend behind bars. A notice sent out Monday by the court’s electronic filing system shows…


FBI Pittsburgh Encourages Western Pennsylvania to Report Hate Crimes

The FBI Pittsburgh field office, together with FBI headquarters and field offices throughout the nation, is engaged in a multifaceted statewide effort to build public awareness of hate crimes and encourage reporting to law enforcement. The strategy includes a public awareness campaign, community and media outreach, and law enforcement coordination, an FBI statement said. The…


The Moment in 1986 When Critical Race Theory Ousted the Civil Rights Movement

“Critical race theory isn’t so much a thing as a way of looking at a thing,” Kimberlé Crenshaw assured MSNBC host Joy Reid last month. Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA who, as a law student at Harvard, was one of the founders of critical race theory in the 1980s. The cable news segment—headlined…


Democrats Need a Day of Atonement

Commentary With the creation of June 19th (“Juneteenth”) as a federal holiday, Democrats have one more claim to be the party of civil rights and equal opportunity for African Americans, though most Republicans also voted for the holiday. That claim has been promoted for decades by a compliant media, academia, and high-profile politicians, but the facts say…


[Premieres 6pm ET] Larry Elder: On reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy

When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother…


Larry Elder: On reparations: John F. Kennedy vs. Robert F. Kennedy

When did the civil rights movement go off the rails? The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that’s more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F. Neither brother…


Police Reform and Personal Responsibility

Commentary It is indeed rare, if not unprecedented, to see a highly diverse group of organizations such as the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, the libertarian Cato Institute, and the Reason Foundation on the same page as the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund on the same issue. But it…