Feb 24, 2025 | The Respect Rundown
by Emily Pecot Could school librarians face jail time for the books they choose to include in your library? The late Judith Krug, a former executive director of the American Library Association who co-founded Banned Books Week in 1982, said in interviews, “Librarians...
Feb 21, 2025 | The Respect Rundown
by Sylvia Mendoza In general, hate crimes are on the rise in the United States. Of the 11,862 reported hate crimes in 2023, 1,832 were due to antisemitism, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2023 Hate Crime Statistics Report. That is a 63%...
Feb 21, 2025 | The Respect Rundown
by Michael Barbella In February 2024, U.S. prosecutors won their first case under a federal hate crime statute that was expanded in October 2009 to encompass gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability. A South Carolina jury convicted Daqua Lameek...
Oct 3, 2024 | The Respect Rundown
by Michael Barbella For nearly 60 years, private groups and ordinary citizens were legally permitted to file voter discrimination lawsuits under the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). In November 2023, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth...
Oct 2, 2024 | The Respect Rundown
by Sylvia Mendoza Gerrymandering is almost as old as the United States itself. Even before it had a name, Patrick Henry tried to draw a congressional map in Virginia that would have denied a seat to his rival James Madison, according to the Brennan Center for...
Oct 2, 2024 | The Respect Rundown
by Emily Pecot Across the country, concerns over voting rights and the integrity of the electoral process have led to a surge in legal actions ahead of Election Day 2024. Fueled by the false claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, lawmakers in multiple states...
