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After a six-month search for a new executive director, the Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board will now be able to investigate complaints filed in response to the July 2009 arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies...
Shortly after the ad hoc panel was assembled, the Police Review and Advisory Board voted to look into three complaints about Gates’ arrest in September, but the lack of official leadership hindered the investigation. The advisory board has been without a director for much of the past year...
...Cambridge Chronicle reported that Briggett will also take on responsibilities as Cambridge’s new executive director of the Human Rights Commission, which investigates discrimination claims in housing, employment, education, and public accommodations...
...month, as Republican stalwarts, from Cindy McCain to Herbert Hoover's granddaughter, began to speak out in favor of gay marriage. "This trial, and Ted's and David's profiles as nationally prominent, mainstream opinion leaders, have made the whole issue mainstream and much less partisan," says Jennifer Pizer, director of Lambda Legal's National Marriage Project and one of the lawyers who warned that the timing of the case could be disastrous. Gay-rights experts still warn that strategy is highly risky given the frosty reception they fear it will receive at the U.S. Supreme Court. (See a pictorial...
...negotiated with the movement's leaders if they cut ties with al-Qaeda. Such talk has Afghan women fearing that their own hard-won freedoms could be in jeopardy. "As we see the Taliban coming back, what will happen to the women of Afghanistan?" asked Mary Akrami, director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Centre, in a meeting in Westminster before the summit. That's one of a number of questions that could have cracked the smooth sheen of unanimity that glossed the outcome of Thursday's meeting. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...