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U.S. Civil Rights Commission sidetracked by member's protestupdated: Fri Oct 29 2010 17:57:00

A member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission walked out of a meeting Friday saying he and two other panelists have been denied a chance to fully discuss whether the Obama administration has been race-neutral in an investigation of alleged voter intimidation.

U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing erupts in shoutingupdated: Sat Aug 14 2010 06:04:00

Members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission shouted at each other Friday over the Justice Department's decision to drop most of the charges in a 2008 incident in which black militants confronted voters at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, polling place, leading to charges of voter intimidation.

Nothing 'civil' at civil rights meetingupdated: Sat Aug 14 2010 06:04:00

Members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission shouted at each other Friday over a controversial voting rights case.

Money Magazine: HOW TO LAUNCH YOUR NEXT CAREERupdated: Sun Oct 01 1995 00:01:00

Three years ago, as yet another wave of downsizing crashed over the oil industry, Robert Johnson, then 46, retired from Shell Oil in Houston after 25 years. During his successful career he had rise...

Fortune: Good news for this department, even better news for Yalies, bad news for 13th Street, and other matters. THE ROAD TO THE TOPupdated: Mon Jul 25 1994 00:01:00

Reading over the testimony of Mary Frances Berry before the Senate Judiciary Committee the other day, one felt that ''Only in America'' was still reasonably safe. In recent times one has often worr...

Fortune: Socialism for 2-year-olds, the stats on Peter Jennings, down with success, and other matters. UP FROM INSCRUTABLEupdated: Mon Apr 06 1992 00:01:00

Easily the strangest document produced by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in recent years is its just-released report on the predicament, if that is the word, which we doubt, of Asian Americans...

Fortune: Incredible shrinking brains, bankers' pets, dumber than the women's movement, and other matters. QUIZ TIMEupdated: Mon Dec 02 1991 00:01:00

The following brief exam memorializes the 15th anniversary of Keeping Up (launched in the December 1976 issue of the old monthly FORTUNE) and offers longtime readers a chance to check on whether th...

Fortune: HISPANICS: JUST ANOTHER IMMIGRANT STORY?updated: Mon Nov 21 1988 00:01:00

The rhetoric of some Hispanic leaders might make you think that the government must treat low-income Latinos as though they are somehow different from earlier waves of immigrants, that without such...

Fortune: Washington's phantom reporters, more sex in the office, reconsidering Yoko Ono, and other matters. JUST ASKINGupdated: Mon Aug 15 1988 00:01:00

In which your correspondent resumes his mysterious five-year-old custom of propounding ornately serpentine and syntactically suspect questions that for some reason generate a paucity of answers. --...

Fortune: Our Unbiased Markets, The Antler Lobby Strikes Again, Virtue at Chrysler, and Other Matters. A New Commissionupdated: Mon Oct 13 1986 00:01:00

The latest publication of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an extraordinary document. Titled The Economic Progress of Black Men in America, it naturally tells you a lot about that subject. It...

Fortune: A Pen for the President, A PC for Gamblers, A Modest Proposal for the Newhouses, and Other Matters. Waiting for a Strokeupdated: Mon Apr 15 1985 00:01:00

The big news about civil rights these days is something that isn't happening. < What is happening is giving the Washington Post conniptions and causing it to overproduce headlines and editorials ab...

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