Tag Archives: civil rights

JMG regular Sean Chapin visited the site of Martin Luther King’s assassination as part of this tribute video. The MLK memorial in DC is about to have its official opening.

Saying he is “appalled” at the revelation, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has ordered his state’s Homeland Security agency to stop spying on LGBT groups and other activism movements. Information about an anti-BP candlelight vigil, a gay and lesbian festival and other peaceful gatherings became the subject of anti-terrorism bulletins being distributed by Pennsylvania’s homeland security office, an apologetic Gov. Ed …

A “mosquito” device has been installed at the Chinatown entrance to DC’s Metro system in hopes that its shrill tone will drive away lingering teenagers. The sound is only audible to young people. Similar devices have been installed in Britain with the same purpose of discouraging young people from congregating outside shops. According to Councilmember Jack Evans, the founder of …

Rachel Maddow continues her takedown of Rand Paul.

After 24 hours of nonstop ridicule and outrage from all quarters, Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul is trying to spin his way out of his Civil Rights Act mess.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the nutty libertarian tree. Rand Paul think that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 should be amended to allow businesses the right to deny service to anybody they please. Rachel Maddow takes him down in classic fashion.

“Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.” – Civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height, speaking to the Human Rights Campaign in 1997. Height died today at the age of 98. I …

“The folly of the SPLC’s expanding ‘hate’ dragnet is that it threatens to engulf all religious/moral opposition to homosexuality. Indeed, it would be revealing to query the top 25 ‘GLBT’ activist across the nation and ask them if they would also label, as Matt Barber pokes fun HERE, the following as ‘hate groups’: Family Research Council, AFA, the Roman Catholic …

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his LGBT rights take on Martin Luther King’s famous “How Long?” speech.

The national ACLU organization has lost a quarter of its annual funding after a long-time anonymous donor withdrew his $20M yearly pledge due to financial difficulties. Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the A.C.L.U., acknowledged in a written statement that a “family” had told the organization in September that it could not make its annual gifts, at least for next …

Noted homophobe Rev. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., has been named the first woman to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And the calls for her to renounce her anti-gay bigotry have begun. From the Daily Voice, which bill itselfs as “black America’s daily news source”: She should renounce the anti-gay bigotry of her recent past. …

“While those who were at Stonewall talk about the fear of being arrested by police, 40 years ago, blacks talked about the fear of dying at the hands of police and not having their bodies found or murder investigated. The 13th Amendment was signed in 1865, and it wasn’t until 1948 that President Harry S Truman desegregated the military. That’s …