Human Rights and Equality Archives

Bill Cosby Rape Survivor Says Black Women Face Disproportionate Pressure Not to Speak Out on Assault

Harvey Weinstein surrendered to police Friday, facing charges that he sexually assaulted two women. His arrest comes just one month after the public downfall of another extremely powerful man in entertainment—comedian Bill Cosby. Cosby was…

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NFL Bans National Anthem Protests On Same Day Video of Police Tasering of NBA Player is Released

The National Football League has announced it will fine teams if players refuse to stand for the national anthem before games. But under the new rules adopted by the league’s 32 owners, players will be…

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Malkia Cyril on Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit & How Amazon Sells Facial Recognition Tools to Police

In an extended interview with Malkia Cyril, co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice and a Black Lives Matter in the Bay Area, we discuss Facebook’s plans to conduct a civil rights…

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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Workers’ Rights in 5-4 Decision Against Collective Action

In a major blow to workers’ rights, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 Monday that employers can use arbitration clauses to prohibit workers from banding together to challenge violations of federal labor laws in…

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The New COINTELPRO? Meet the Black Activist Jailed for Months After FBI Targeting & Surveillance

In Texas, a black activist says he is the first person to be targeted and prosecuted under a secretive U.S. surveillance effort to track so-called black identity extremists. On December 12, activist Rakem Balogun awoke…

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A Conversation About Protest - Side A

Erica Williams Simon and co-host Rosario Dawson "assemble" with journalist Dr. Maytha Alhassen, #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Blackfeet Nation author Gyasi Ross, actor Matt McGorry, and a special musical performance by Gina Loring.

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Ro Khanna: Profiling Students for Potential Shooters Could Threaten Civil Liberties

A caller suggests medical and psychological tests on 13 year olds as a way to prevent gun violence. Congressman Ro Khanna thinks that we can find a way to defeat the gun lobby without sacrificing…

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NYC Mayor to Police: Stop All Pot Smoking Arrests

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio directs NYPD to stop all arrests for simple pot smoking and small amounts of marijuana possession, widely seen as a precursor to the expected legalization of cannabis in…

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The Time The NRA and Ronald Reagan worked together to Disarm a Well Regulated Militia

Do you know the story of the well regulated Militia that the NRA and Ronald Reagan worked to disarm?

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A Conversation About Hate - Side B

Saul Williams performs his poem "Colton as Cotton," then co-hosts Rosario Dawson and Erica Williams Simon continue the conversation about hate, with guests including scholar and peace-promoter Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace…

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“It’s Time for Moral Confrontation”: New Poor People’s Campaign Stages Nationwide Civil Disobedience

On Mother’s Day 50 years ago, thousands converged on Washington, D.C., to take up the cause that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been fighting for when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968:…

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Kamala Harris Took Gina Haspel to Task

In a tense congressional hearing, Sen. Kamala Harris questioned Trump's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, about her previous advocacy of torture — which she called "enhanced interrogation techniques."

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Black Mama’s Bail Out Is Freeing Black Women from Jail for Mother’s Day & Taking Aim at Cash Bail

It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, and racial justice groups around the country are bailing black women out of jail so they can spend the holiday with their families. For the second year in a row,…

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A Conversation About Hate - Side A

If you turn on the news, it seems as if hate is all around us. Truth be told, you don’t even need the news to tell you: Depending on who and where you are, it…

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Cecile Richards on Attacks on Women’s Health, from Iowa Abortion Ban to Rising Violence at Clinics

On Friday, Iowa’s governor signed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bills. The new law requires any woman seeking an abortion to undergo an abdominal ultrasound. The law bans abortion if a fetal heartbeat…

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Meet the 2018 Teacher of the Year Honored by Trump Whom the White House Doesn’t Want You to Hear

When Mandy Manning received her 2018 Teacher of the Year award at the White House Wednesday, the press was barred from her speech, and President Trump did not mention who she teaches: immigrant and refugee…

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Rashad Robinson on Fighting Racism

Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color Change sits down with Imara to discuss racism as an adaptive system of power and how digital activism can tackle it.

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The Power of Queer Images: Meredith Talusan

Meredith Talusan, Executive Director of Condé Nast's Them talks about the power of non-binary, LGBTQ images as a tool for social change during a time of growing misogyny, patriarchy and sexual orientation backlash.

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Human Rights in America

Margaret Huang, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, sits down with Imara to talk about growing concern about the erosion of human rights in the United States and the hope of activism at this…

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Ben Carson Wants To Triple Rents for Poor Americans

GUEST: Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty BACKGROUND: A month after he was in the news for ordering a $31,000 dining set for his office using tax payer…

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