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...Islam and the West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices that we want to nurture,” she added. Under the guidance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the AAR, an association of approximately 10,000 religious scholars, joined with the Association of American University Professors and the PEN American Center, an organization that promotes human rights and literary exchange, to file a lawsuit two weeks ago in response to frustrated efforts to bring Ramadan...
...local civil rights activist compared the Cambridge Public Schools’ new achievement benchmarks to apartheid-era South African policies at last night’s School Committee meeting...
...could accept this report if white students scored at 100 percent all the time,” said civil rights leader Kathy Reddick, the president of the Cambridge branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People (NAACP...
...shared his bathroom. “I would’ve liked a lock then.”MOVING FORWARDThe quest for gender-neutral habitation is neither new nor Harvard-specific. At last, this year a committee of students and administrators will meet to reexamine housing guidelines.In 1992, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard launched an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to secure coed rooming. Their report found that students pursuing coed rooming were treated with little uniformity, as they were obligated to seek approval from their House masters on a case-by-case basis. It also reported that 91 percent...
...There were touching moments, too. Former FBI Director William Sessions noted how Mrs. King had befriended him, despite the FBI's eavesdropping and harassment of Dr. King. Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin was cheered when she said that Mrs. King had joined a "freedom choir" of late civil rights crusaders. Perhaps the most touching sight of all were the thousands of ordinary Americans who filled the massive sanctuary, each one there to praise Mrs. King and perhaps be a part of history...