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Human rights group says Cuba is holding scores of political prisoners
Nov 18th, 2009 - Washington Post
Scores of Cubans have been detained as political prisoners since Raul Castro assumed power three years ago, a human-rights organization reported Wednesday, suggesting...
David Kaufman: Caveat Emptor: Jewish America's West Bank Sell-Out
Nov 18th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
Last month's arrest of a Florida-born West Bank resident by Israeli security forces is the most potent example yet of the threat posed by the Jewish Settler movement to Israel's democratic soul...
Florida AG: Make licensing for felons tougher
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Forbes
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Attorney General Bill McCollum wants Florida lawmakers to make it tougher for former felons to get occupational and professional licenses. McCollum...
Justices reject appeal in 1964 kidnapping case
Nov 2nd, 2009 - CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has refused a lower court's unusual request to decide whether a shocking 45-year-old civil rights crime can be prosecuted decades later. The justices Monday dismissed an appeal involving James Ford Seale...
Supreme Court won't review civil rights-era case
Nov 2nd, 2009 - The Honolulu Advertiser
WASHINGTON ? The Supreme Court today left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two black men were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi.

Civil Rights videos from YouTube:

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History of the Civil Rights Movement
History of the Civil Rights Movement
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JFK on Civil Rights
An excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's June 11, 1963 radio and television address to the American people on civil rights. Copyright: John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
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Sidney Poitier speaks about Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Roundtable, a clip from the National Archives,presented specially for The Documentary Channel.
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montage of civil rights pic

Civil Rights from WikiPedia:

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Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from the government and state power and assure the ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state.

Civil and political rights include:

Ensuring peoples' physical integrity and safety
Natural justice (procedural fairness) in law (such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy)
Protection from discrimination (based on gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc.)
Individual political freedom, including rights of individuals (freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of movement) and the right to participate in civil society and politics (freedom of association, right to assemble, right to petition, right to vote)