Articles, news, campaigns and events about racial profiling
Mar 18, 2013, 7:14am
Rima Vesely-Flad
Today starts the historic Stop and Frisk trial, Floyd v. City of New York, which challenges the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning, and frisking individuals in building hallways and on city streets. The trial has...
Jun 15, 2012, 4:47pm
Ethan Vesely-Flad
Join me this Sunday, June 17, as the Fellowship of Reconciliation marches with peace and global justice groups from around the New York City area in a silent march to end “stop and frisk.”When: Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17,...
May 10, 2012, 4:59pm
FOR
On Tuesday, May 8th, the Fellowship of Reconciliation joined more than 200 other civil rights, human rights, immigrant rights, and faith-based organizations in calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to fulfill his stated commitment to ending...
Apr 18, 2012, 6:46pm
FOR
This week dozens of U.S. human rights organizations are taking action as part of National End Racial Profiling Advocacy Week. Together we are calling on Congress to support the End Racial Profiling Act of 2011. The Fellowship of Reconciliation and...
Mar 28, 2012, 3:14pm
FOR
It’s been four weeks since unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a so-called neighborhood watch volunteer.Yet another attack on a young man of color, with little accountability for his white attacker, has surfaced...
Mar 22, 2012, 1:20pm
FOR
This week, a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder from more than one hundred organizations called on his office to investigate the widespread surveillance of Muslim communities by the New York Police Department. Signed by the Fellowship of...
Feb 2, 2012, 6:32pm
FOR
Recent reports indicate that the New York Police Department (NYPD) has been conducting covert surveillance of mosques in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The targeted mosques, highlighted in the secret NYPD document dated May 15, 2006 released...
