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July 11, 2007 · Prince William County in Virginia has passed one of the most aggressive measures targeting illegal immigrants. The Board of Supervisors says police will be able to ask about immigration status and county officials will be able to deny such services as non-emergency medical care, public parks, and libraries. Opponents call the measure racist.
Inez Baskin covered the civil rights struggle for The Montgomery Advertiser.
The United States Supreme Court invalidated voluntary school desegregation plans.
June 29, 2007 · In a decision with profound implications for the nation's public schools, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated two voluntary desegregation plans because they used race in some students' school assignments in an effort to end racial isolation or prevent re-segregation.
June 29, 2007 · School officials in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., named in the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 desegregation ruling were encouraged by the separate and deciding opinion of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Though voting with the majority, he wrote that race could still be an element of a school district's racial diversity plan.
June 28, 2007 · The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down two public school plans aimed at achieving racial diversity. The 5-4 ruling could imperil similar plans in schools across the country. Here, a look at the ruling and its impact.
June 28, 2007 · Carol Ann Haddad, member and former head of the school board in Jefferson County, Ky., talks about Thursday's Supreme Court ruling against the district's use of race in making school assignments.
June 28, 2007 · Naomi Earp, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, discusses the current state of discrimination in the workplace and their new anti-discrimination initiative.
June 24, 2007 · An African-American church in San Francisco celebrates its centennial, even as large numbers of blacks leave the city. The church's "Wall of Black Heroes" offers an extraordinary history lesson.
June 22, 2007 · Austin police and black leaders appealed for community help in finding three to four people who beat a Hispanic man to death following a car accident in a crowded parking lot. The murder was witnessed by more than a dozen people, none of whom has come forward to identify the killers.
June 22, 2007 · The Civil Rights division of the Justice Department has been under fire from congressional Democrats for allegedly hiring career employees according to their political affiliations. Division head Wan Kim testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And the House Judiciary Committee heard more testimony on alleged politicization of other aspects of the Justice Department.
June 21, 2007 · Last week, James Seale was found guilty of federal kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. That conviction was due in part to the work of Jim Ingram, a retired FBI agent in Mississippi.
June 18, 2007 · Two schools in California hope collecting data on students' progress will enable teachers to tailor an instructional program that will help students succeed on state-mandated skills tests.
June 18, 2007 · The federal government has begun testing a virtual fence along parts of the Arizona-Mexico border where there are steep hillsides that make a real fence impractical. The fence works via ground sensors, radar, cameras on towers and computers.
June 15, 2007 · James Seale, 71, faces life in prison after being convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 murder of two black teens in Mississippi. Members of the victims' families welcome the verdict as a sign of how much the state has changed.
