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On Wednesday, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission is hosting the first of a series of public hearings about housing discrimination. What to know.
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission said it was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the water switch and the brush-off of complaints in the majority-Black city would have occurred in a ...
Michigan Department of Civil Rights is a department of the Michigan State Government created in 1965 to support the work of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission of Michigan's Constitution of 1963. The Commission directs the work of the department and has eight members. [2] The executive director is John E. Johnson, Jr.
Avi Rachlin, a Detroit man testifying at the Michigan Senate, used an anti-Black slur during his testimony at a committee hearing Thursday, referring to young Black people as the N-word while ...
The Detroit Police Officers Association protested to Romney, "We resent the Civil Rights Commission looking over our shoulders, just waiting for some officer to stub his toe." At one precinct, a white officer "bitterly abused" a black CRC observer, saying that "all people of his kind should be killed."
[33] [34] As early as the 1973 committee hearing on the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, members of the LGBTQ community in Michigan sought to be included in the law. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] However, actual legislation to do so was not introduced until 2005 when Michigan's first openly LGBT state legislator, Chris Kolb , included it with two other pro ...
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission in 2017 said the water switch was the result of systemic racism, doubting that the brush-off of complaints about the poor quality of the river water would have ...
In 1885, Michigan adopted the Public Act 130 of 1885, otherwise known as the Civil Rights Act, which stated “all persons within the jurisdiction of (the state) shall be entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, restaurants, eating-houses, barber shops, public conveyances on land and water, theatres, and all other places of public accommodation ...