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Biden administration says pharmacists cannot deny contraceptives due to personal views

WASHINGTON — In the latest salvo aimed at responding to a June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning the federal right to an abortion, the Biden administration Wednesday told pharmacists that they will violate federal civil rights laws if they deny women prescribed medications because of personal views about contraception or…

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Pharmacies may violate civil rights if they refuse meds linked to abortion, feds warn

Pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for medications used for abortion could be violating civil rights law. The meds are also used to treat miscarriages, arthritis and ulcers.

WEKU

Black educator Mary McLeod Bethune honored in Statuary Hall

Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune has became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall

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Biden administration says pharmacists cannot deny contraceptives - Roll Call

HHS reminds some 60,000 pharmacies of their legal obligation to dispense medication as prescribed, including contraceptives.

Roll Call

Capitol Lens | Unveiling history - Roll Call

Florida Rep. Val B. Demings speaks during a statue unveiling ceremony for civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Wednesday.

Roll Call

GLAAD: Social media networks fail to protect LGBTQ users

Civil rights groups say there's a direct connection between online harassment and real-world violence.

Axios

Jill Biden apologizes for calling Latino community “unique as the breakfast tacos”

She made the comment during a speech Monday in San Antonio to a Latino civil rights group.

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Who was Emmett Till? What to know about his death and legacy

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1955, a white woman alleged that a Black teenager whistled at, grabbed and said obscene things to her in her grocery store in Mississippi. The result? A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in the Jim Crow South.

Tribune News Service

Jill Biden Chided for Saying Latinos as Unique as ‘Breakfast Tacos’

US first lady Jill Biden's attempt to compliment Latinos flopped on Monday when she said they were as unique as "breakfast tacos," prompting criticism from across the political spectrum. Speaking in San Antonio at the annual conference of UnidosUS, formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, Biden attempted…

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Struggling Latino students should be priority, leaders say

Leaders with the United States' largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group say Latino students should be a federal funding priority after falling behind during the coronavirus pandemic despite making notable educational gains in recent decades

The Independent UK

Arizona's governor signed a law that limits filming police

The law makes it illegal in Arizona to knowingly film police officers 8 feet or closer without an officer's permission. Civil rights and media groups opposed the measure signed Thursday.

WEKU

Civil Rights icon, Chicago native awarded Medal of Freedom

Nash also later taught in Chicago Public Schools and directed her activism toward fair housing and other issues, including the Vietnam War and the women’s liberation movement.

Chicago Sun-Times

Derek Chauvin given 21-year jail sentence for violating George Floyd's civil rights

White policeman Derek Chauvin was previously jailed for the murder of black dad George Floyd after being filmed kneeling on his neck until he suffocated in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Daily Mirror

Family of man hurt in police van seeks civil rights charges

The family of a Black man who was seriously injured in the back of a police van in Connecticut is asking federal authorities to file civil rights charges against the officers involved

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Why Derek Chauvin will be moved from state prison to comfier federal facility after new sentence

Derek Chauvin was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in federal prison for violating George Floyd’s civil rights

Evening Standard

Derek Chauvin gets separate 21-year sentence for violating George Floyd’s civil rights

The former US officer will serve the sentence concurrently with his murder sentence

Newcastle Herald

Film release: The Hunter's first civil rights activists

New film release of Hunter history.

Tribune News Service

Ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin sentenced to more than 20 years in federal civil rights case

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge sentenced Derek Chauvin on Thursday to more than 20 years in prison for violating the civil rights of George Floyd and a Black Minneapolis teen, extending the term he is already serving on state murder charges for killing Floyd in 2020.

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Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in federal civil rights case

Chauvin has been serving a separate, 22.5-year sentence for murder and manslaughter charges for the murder of George Floyd.

The Independent UK

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to ‘extraordinary group’ of 17, including Simone Biles and Gabby Giffords

The Medal of Freedom is the highest honour that can be bestowed upon an American civilian

Roll Call

Biden medal picks push partisan issues, and bipartisanship - Roll Call

Medal of Freedom recipients include advocates for gun control and civil rights, plus former Republican senators who worked across the aisle.

The Independent UK

Ex-cop Chauvin to get federal sentence for Floyd's killing

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is about to learn his sentence for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd

Tribune News Service

Derek Chauvin's federal sentencing scheduled for Thursday

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Chauvin will be sentenced Thursday on federal civil rights charges connected to the 2020 murder of George Floyd and a previous excessive force case involving a Minneapolis teenager.

The Conversation

Fred Gray, the 'chief counsel for the protest movement,' to get Medal of Freedom for his civil rights work

Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, in which the U.S. Public Health Service refused for decades to provide readily available treatment to Black men who had the disease.

The Independent UK

Chauvin faces sentencing on federal charges in Floyd killing

A federal judge will this week sentence former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for federal civil rights violations in the killing of George Floyd

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