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