Recent civil rights news…
- We blogged recently about civil rights cold cases. A leader in these investigations of racially-motivated murders in the 1960s has died, succumbing to pancreatic cancer. In related news, a federal appeals court has asked the Supreme Court to review a case involving the kidnap and murder of two young black men in Mississippi in 1964.
- The AP documents some of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s recent struggles. The NAACP is in trouble, too, says the BBC, whose Gary Younge also asks, “Are black civil rights campaigners relevant?”
- And in information technology news, a proposed settlement allowing Google to digitize millions of books is being hailed as a move that could, by improving access to knowledge, “level the playing field at the most fundamental intersection of rights, knowledge and advocacy.”
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