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People For in ActionMay 21, 2019 3:29 pm | By 64126
Civil Rights Advocates Celebrate Brown v. Board of Education While Trump Judicial Nominees Won’t Say It Was Rightly Decided
May 17 marked the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark decision by the Supreme Court that ended racial segregation in public schools and “separate but equal” as the law of the land. Codifying desegregation marked a…
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People For in ActionMay 21, 2019 3:00 pm | By 41734
PFAW and AAMIA Support Public Education, Oppose Diverting Tax Dollars to Private Education and Homeschools
President Trump's 2017 tax scam expanded the use of 529 education savings accounts, adding coverage for private and religious schools. As members of the National Coalition for Public Education, People For the American Way and PFAW's African Ministers In Action…
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People For in ActionMay 21, 2019 2:16 pm | By 41734
HHS Is Flying False “Conscience” and “Religion” Flags at the Expense of Civil Rights
While the job of the HHS Office of Civil Rights is to ensure that HHS programs are not discriminating against the people they serve, OCR under the Trump administration has become the frontline of an effort to carve out expansive…
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People For in ActionMay 17, 2019 2:14 pm | By 41734
U.S. Should Invest in Young People’s Health and Rights
One of the important questions that must be answered by government funding negotiators is whether the U.S. will invest in young people's health and rights. From teen pregnancy and HIV prevention to sex education and more, People For the American…
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People For in ActionMay 14, 2019 3:21 pm | By 41734
PFAW Urges House to Pass the Equality Act
People For the American Way is an enthusiastic endorser of H.R. 5, the Equality Act, which recognizes that every American deserves full and equal rights under the law. In advance of an expected May 17 House floor vote, PFAW urged…
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People For in ActionMay 10, 2019 5:11 pm | By 67501
#VoteTheCourts2020: Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris Discuss the Courts at She the People
On April 24, at She the People’s first presidential forum in Houston, Texas, several Democratic presidential candidates spoke about a range of issues important to women of color. During the forum, attendees raised concerns about living as women of color…
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People For in ActionMay 8, 2019 4:58 pm | By 28179
With Rule of Law Threatened, Senate Cannot Defer to Trump-Barr Choice of Jeffrey Rosen for Deputy Attorney General
On March 26, President Trump nominated Jeffrey Rosen to serve as deputy attorney general under William Barr at the Department of Justice. The Senate Judiciary Committee held Rosen's hearing on April 10. Rosen now awaits a committee vote expected on…
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People For in ActionMay 7, 2019 4:24 pm | By 53561, 62609
This Mother’s Day, Remember the Harm of Trump’s Family Separation
Days before Mother’s Day, we urge everyone to think about the mothers who have been separated from their children and the many more who still have not been reunited. In addition to the thousands of families who are separated every…
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People For in ActionMay 3, 2019 4:12 pm | By 28179
Confirming Judicial Nominee Joseph Bianco Would Represent a Dangerous Shift in Our Legal, Political, and Cultural Norms
On November 13, President Trump nominated Joseph Bianco of New York to be a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals over the objection of home state Democratic senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. The Senate Judiciary Committee held…
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People For in ActionMay 3, 2019 10:06 am | By 67501
#VoteTheCourts2020: Williamson and Castro Discuss Their Ideal Judicial Nominees
As part of its #VoteTheCourts2020 campaign, PFAW is asking Democratic presidential candidates to discuss their plans to nominate fair-minded constitutionalists to the bench. During campaign stops in Nevada in late March and April, New Age author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson and former Secretary of Housing and…
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People For in ActionMay 1, 2019 9:42 am | By 41734
PFAW and AAMIA Renew Support for Data Collection That Will Help Fight Racial Injustice in Special Education
People For the American Way and PFAW's African American Ministers In Action believe in the important role that data collection has to play in eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in the identification, placement, and discipline of special education students. On…
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People For in ActionApril 25, 2019 2:26 pm | By 41734
PFAW and AAMIA to Congress: Protect the Johnson Amendment
In 2017, President Trump used his National Prayer Breakfast appearance to attack the Johnson Amendment. On the occasion of the 2019 breakfast and the new session of Congress, People For the American Way, PFAW's African American Ministers In Action, and…
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People For in ActionApril 24, 2019 12:46 pm | By 64126
PFAW Joins Coalition at Supreme Court to Rally Against the Census Citizenship Question
On April 23 the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case challenging the Trump administration’s plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The census is an extremely important, constitutionally protected tool used to assess communities’ needs…
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People For in ActionApril 24, 2019 11:05 am | By 41734
PFAW Foundation Brief: Trump’s Final Birth Control Rules Violate Religious Freedom Protections
In January, People For the American Way Foundation joined organizational allies to file district court briefs challenging President Trump’s discriminatory birth control rollback, which carves out sweeping religious and moral exemptions that allow employers and universities to withhold comprehensive reproductive…
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People For in ActionApril 19, 2019 3:08 pm | By 64126
PFAW and the Coalition of Conservative and Liberal Church Leaders Call for Commonsense Gun Reform
On April 17, PFAW joined the Coalition of Conservative and Liberal Church Leaders in urging Congress to pass commonsense gun violence prevention legislation. The epidemic of gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature death in the United…
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People For in ActionApril 17, 2019 2:51 pm | By 41734
PFAW and AAMIA Renew Call for Federally Funded Gun Violence Research
While People For the American Way and PFAW's African American Ministers In Action believe that the so-called "Dickey Amendment" should ultimately be repealed, we also believe that the federal government can work within current law to research the causes, effects,…
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People For in ActionApril 17, 2019 1:30 pm | By 41734
PFAW Stands with Rep. Ilhan Omar and Condemns Racist, Bigoted Attacks
In a statement condemning the recent attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., People For the American Way President Michael Keegan said that she is being attacked because she is a young Black Muslim woman fighting for progressive values. On April…
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People For in ActionApril 15, 2019 10:32 am | By 67501
#VoteTheCourts2020: Buttigieg and Inslee Discuss Their Ideal Judicial Nominees
As part of its #VoteTheCourts2020 campaign, PFAW is asking Democratic presidential candidates’ to discuss their plans to nominate and confirm fair-minded constitutionalists to the bench. During campaign stops in Nevada in late March and April, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and…
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People For in ActionApril 12, 2019 12:11 pm | By 64126
PFAW Joins Coalition of Activists on Capitol Hill to Rally Against the Transgender Military Ban
Trump’s transgender military ban officially went into effect on April 12. Any person serving in the military who comes out as transgender can be discharged. In addition, from this point forward, transgender people can be barred from joining any branch…
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People For in ActionApril 11, 2019 2:59 pm | By 64126
Khizr Khan and Progressive Groups Call on Congress to Pass the #NoBanAct
In 2017, President Trump banned entry to people from several Muslim majority countries, following his repeated calls on the campaign trail to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. The first two orders were struck down by multiple courts,…