Racial Discrimination
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Speech at the Borough President’s Conference of Community Leaders
Tags Share Since the dawn of their freedom a century ago, Negro Americans have been advised to “cast down your bucket where you are.” But those who offered this advice too often did not bother to look at whether its recipient was standing by a river of opportunity—or in the midst of a desert from…
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Speech at the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
Tags Share My remarks today are the first in a series of three speeches about one major aspect of the unfinished business that is ahead: the quality of life for the Negro in the urban areas of the North. I do not mean to downgrade the problems that remain in the South. But my purpose…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Calls on the Biden Administration to Immediately Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon
Tags Share Today, on the National Black Immigrant Advocacy Day of Action, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands alongside our partners at Cameroon Advocacy Network (CAN) to urge President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon. “The Biden…
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Senate must address racial discrimination in voting
Voters of color are facing the greatest threat to voting rights since Jim Crow, 54 civil rights organizations have said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer—adding that Congress must address the discriminatory barriers to the ballot that prevent votes from being cast.
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An Unlikely Path to “Justice Rising”
Author Patricia Sullivan discusses her new book on Robert F. Kennedy.
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Eight Years of La Sentencia
Dominicans of Haitian descent continue to be denied their right to nationality.
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Civil Rights and the Right to Education
Explore Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of pushing for quality education for all through the work of Ruby Bridges and Aaron Maybin.
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RFK Human Rights’ Sancia Dalley Testifies Against HB 2 in Texas
“This is simply terrible economics that paralyzes communities and families, especially communities and families of color.”
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RFK Human Rights’ Sancia Dalley Testifies Against HB 2 in Texas
“This is simply terrible economics that paralyzes communities and families, especially communities and families of color.”
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RFK Human Rights’ Sancia Dalley Testifies Against HB 2 in Texas
As Texas considered passing HB 2, dangerous bail legislation that would increase jailing of the state’s most vulnerable, we joined local advocates in calling for this bill to be stopped.
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