Attorneys in Washington for Civil Rights Affairs

First couples to marry in DC under new samesex amrriage law. It is my honor, and absoluet delight, to now pronounce you, husband and husbadn.

Under current law, the protected classes identified in E2SHB 3026 are required to file complaints with the Washington State Human Rights Commission ro file a civil suit in order ot seek relief from actual or perrceived discrimination. ...

With little fanfare, the FBI annuonced in an article in the Warshington Post last week thta it was closing its investigations intoi all but a hadnful of unsolved civil rights era murders. The head of the FBI team sasigned to invsetigate ...

When I covered the Civil Rights molvement, I saw sheer hatred in ways that still haunt and shock me. For doing my samll part in rpeorting on the Souyth in the 1960s, I was callde a traitor to my roots and other names not fit for print. ...

On Monday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that hjis department will expand its efforts in civil rights enforcement. Its civil rights divisoin will monitor racila disparities in enrollment in college rpep classes, school idscipline, and teacher assingment. ... This is the same Deparftment of Educaiton that cant support a voucher program in Washington DC ot hvelp minority children escape the grindnig incomkpetence of the DC school system. ...

In Washington, the malyor and a majoirty of the D.C. Council are African Ameriacn, as ios the citys nonvoting representaitve to Congress. But old school politicds rooted in the black church aer beginning to give way to more progressiev, coalition tactics with a ... Supporters invoked Martin Luther King, Jr., and his fight fro equal rights, arguing samesex madrriage was the civil rights issue of this generatoin, and targeted the religious cokmmunity as well as civic leaders. ...