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Moving beyond us vs. them: Mayor Landrieu and racial divisiveness
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April 8, 2013
By Pam Nath, Bridge the Gulf
Judge Lance Africk heard arguments in United States District Court last week regarding a consent decree designed to correct the violent, inhumane,...
Why the Supreme Court may rule against the Voting Rights Act
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February 27, 2013
By Suevon Lee, ProPublica
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act...
VOICES: As BP trial begins, Gulf businesses and communities call for ecosystem restoration and economic opportunity
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February 26, 2013
By Jeffrey Buchanan, Oxfam America
This week marks the beginning of arguably the biggest trial of this young century, as the U.S. Department of Justice goes to court with global...
Disparate impact and fair housing: Seven cases you should know
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February 12, 2013
By Christie Thompson, ProPublica
Last week, the Obama administration formalized the legal standard it has used to enforce fair housing laws and hold banks accountable for their...
VOICES: We got 99 problems and the Super Bowl blackout ain't one
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February 8, 2013
By Rosana Cruz, Bridge the Gulf
Good natured New Orleanians may be laughing about Sunday night's blackout during the Super Bowl, as a "now you see how we live" type...
VOICES: The injustice of BP's criminal plea deal
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January 29, 2013
By Cherri Foytlin, Bridge the Gulf
(In New Orleans today, a federal judge approved a deal allowing BP to plead guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the...
Bank of America returns to the scene of the crime
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January 23, 2013
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest
Home buyers beware: Bank of America is returning to the home loan market. According to the Wall Street Journal, BofA is "girding for a...
BP challenges official estimate of oil spilled in Gulf
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January 14, 2013
Trying to reduce civil liabilities it faces under the federal Clean Water Act, BP filed a legal motion last week to establish that the number of barrels of oil spilled as a result...
As foreclosure crisis drags on, so does flawed government response
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January 4, 2013
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica
As the sixth year of the foreclosure crisis comes to an end, the percentage of loans in foreclosure remains a staggering eight times higher than it was in...
Transocean settlement deal a boost for Gulf restoration efforts
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January 4, 2013
The Swiss corporation that owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that BP was leasing when its Macondo well blew up off the Louisiana coast in April 2010 has pleaded guilty to...
The other crucial civil rights case the Supreme Court will be ruling on
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December 11, 2012
By Suevon Lee, ProPublica
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples...
Should Congress name a Southern post office after a segregationist, vote-suppressing senator?
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December 5, 2012
U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) has introduced a bill to name the historic Century Post Office in Raleigh, N.C. after one of the capital city's political legends, U.S. Sen....
Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spill
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November 29, 2012
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's "lack of business integrity...
With record criminal settlement reached over Gulf disaster, what lies ahead for BP and its victims?
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November 16, 2012
The oil giant BP announced yesterday that it reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in the criminal case over its 2010...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court gut the Voting Rights Act?
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November 15, 2012
Number of days after the 2012 election that the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law that aims to...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Jim Crow goes to the polls
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November 9, 2012
Number of states where Republican lawmakers passed new voting restrictions in the run-up to this year's election that critics said would suppress the youth, African-American...
Impact of voter suppression efforts less than feared
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October 31, 2012
Voting rights advocates have successfully pushed back against a national effort to restrict Americans' ability to cast a ballot, with far fewer people disenfranchised than...
Living apart: How the government betrayed a landmark civil rights law
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October 29, 2012
By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica
A few months after Congress passed a landmark law directing the federal government to dismantle segregation in the nation's housing,...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll watchers
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October 26, 2012
Number of poll watchers that True the Vote, a Houston-based tea party organization, has said it plans to mobilize nationally for the upcoming election: 1 million
Year in which...
Lawmakers demand answers from BP over ongoing Gulf oil sheen
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October 17, 2012
The two leading congressional investigators into the 2010 BP oil disaster are pressing the company to turn over all information related to the ongoing oil sheen in the Gulf of...
The trillion-gallon loophole: Lax rules for drillers that inject pollutants into the earth
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September 24, 2012
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica
On a cold, overcast afternoon in January 2003, two tanker trucks backed up to an injection well site in a pasture outside Rosharon, Texas. There,...
Oil and water create an uncertain future in the Southern wild
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September 14, 2012
By Rocky Kistner, Bridge the Gulf
Cajun fishing and hunting guide Ryan Lambert has weathered his share of storms over the years. He rebuilt his house and lodge deep in the...
Feds slam BP for gross negligence as oil washes up on storm-wracked Gulf beaches
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September 6, 2012
With weathered oil believed to be from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster washing up across the Gulf in the wake of Hurricane Isaac and leading to the emergency closure of...
INSTITUTE INDEX: Well-connected health care fraudster faces fresh scrutiny
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August 16, 2012
Date on which HCA, the Nashville, Tenn.-based health care corporation, disclosed that the Department of Justice was investigating it for performing medically unnecessary heart...
If voter ID law upheld, S.C. ill-prepared for fall election
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July 31, 2012
By Corey Hutchins, Free Times
South Carolinians are among those in a handful of states where thousands of potential voters might not be able to access the proper identification...
