A newly filed lawsuit by the Department of Justice argues the way Houston County elects its county commission violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act of 1965, hurting Black voters’ ability to elect candidates of their choosing. Since Reconstruction began in 1865, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division ...
“I think this infusion of services can really make a difference and continue to see that trend move downward; so, really excited,” said Cassandra Price, who is a commission member and the director of the office of addictive diseases within the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Deve...
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Rev. Lorenzo Heard, a Democrat, chairs the county commission in Dougherty County, which includes southwest Georgia’s largest city of Albany, an early battleground in the fight for civil rights. Heard is worried in particular that Black men won't vote. He said over...
The Atlanta Regional Commission et al v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et al U.S. District Courts | Georgia Northern District Court | Other | 1:14-CV-03594 | 11/07/2014 DOCKET 12/19/2014 (#4) NOTICE OF APPEARANCE BY RUTH ANN STOREY ON BEHALF OF THOMAS P. BOSTICK, JON J. ...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Georgia was discriminating against them. “I am thrilled to know that none of my trans colleagues will ever have to go through what I did,” Rich said in a statement. A court ruling found a similar ban in North Carolina...
Georgia's ruling party has won the country's general election, beating its pro-EU and pro-Western opposition. The Central Election Commission (CEC) said the rulingGeorgianDream party, which has been in power for 12 years, had won 54% of the vote with more than 99% of precincts counted....
In the workplace, minors have the same rights that adults have. These rights are guaranteed by federal laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. They include employee protections like: The right to be paid at least thefederal minimum wageof $7.25 per ho...
In the weeks since then, abortion rights has become even more central to two key Texas runoff primaries. Voting will end in those races on Tuesday. In the runoff for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general, Garza, a civil rights attorney who previously won a case granting a de...