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May 04 2024
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The legacy of Thatcher's Right to Buy
Early this year, a biography by the Tory peer Lord Ashcroft of Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, accused her of failing to pay a capital gains tax bill when she sold her former council house in Stockport 2015. (Rayner claims that she was not liable because the house was her principal private residence.) However, a secondary charge levelled by Ashcroft was of "hypocrisy": like many on the
The Week - NewsDec 30 2023
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Theater apologizes for removing civil rights leader for using his own chair
A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation's largest movie theater chain. The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis,
Daily KosDec 29 2023
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Civil Rights Leader Uses Own Chair at Movies, Gets Kicked Out
A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from the nation's largest movie theater chain. The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of "The Color Purple." The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis,
Newsmax (News)Feb 15 2024
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'Bombshell' witness testimony may lead to Fani Willis' disqualification from case: Civil rights atty
Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell said Thursday witness testimony may have provided the key evidence to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade from Trump’s trial in Fulton County, Georgia. Willis verbally sparred with lawyers for hours at an evidentiary hearing regarding her relationship with the lead prosecutor she hired to bring the case against Trump. Co-
Fox News (Online News)Oct 18 2023
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Trenton Police Department faces allegations of civil rights violations
The United States Department of Justice opened a civil rights investigation into the Trenton Police Department. The department is looking at allegations of officers using excessive force, stopping people without justification and illegally searching homes and cars. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has done the same type of investigation in 10 other police departments since 2021. "Building that
News 12 New JerseyNov 26 2023
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3 Palestinian students injured in Vermont shootings, civil rights group says
Three Palestinian students were injured after a shooting in Burlington, Vermont on Saturday evening, according to an Arab-American civil rights group. Burlington Police say they responded to reports of shootings at around 6:30 p.m., according to WPTZ. Authorities say they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds when they arrived and found a third victim a short distance away. No shooter
NBC 10 BostonSep 28 2023
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National Cathedral swaps out Civil War-themed stained glass for civil rights-themed windows
For nearly 65 years, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., had four Civil War-themed stained glass windows featuring Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They were allegedly installed in hopes of ameliorating postwar tensions between North and South. On Saturday, the nation's second-largest cathedral unveiled its civil rights-themed replacement windows, featuring
The BlazeJan 13 2024
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'Modern Moses' MLK Jr. was in New Orleans before peak of the Civil Rights Movement
Just before the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited New Orleans to spread the message of racial equality and energize the city in a rallying cry to end segregation in the South. In the late 1950s, the civil rights icon spoke at an auditorium that no longer exists in New Orleans. He then worked with a group of ministers to establish a well-known civil rights
The Times-PicayuneApr 19 2024
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"Civil War" is unsettling — especially if you live in D.C.
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Cailee Spaeny walk into a re-creation of the White House in the movie, "Civil War." Photo: Murray Close Earlier this week I did something extremely out of character: I left my couch to see a movie IRL at a theater — the much-discussed "Civil War," the final D.C.-based act of which was pretty triggering, to say the least. The big picture: The movie
AxiosMar 04 2024
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AG Garland claims civil rights STILL under attack in ‘Bloody Sunday’ service, black vote under threat
Invoking “white supremacists” and Reconstruction, Attorney General Merrick Garland went full race-baiter over election integrity measures while marking a civil rights anniversary. President Joe Biden’s administration was out in full force Sunday as officials attended ceremonies in Selma, Alabama to mark the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. While Vice President Kamala Harris used the march
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