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Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence
Delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City
“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional [...]

Dallas police apologized on Friday for what they characterized as a “sincere mistake” after an officer-in-training gave a local resident a $204 citation for being a “non-English speaking driver.”
The driver, Ernestina Mondragon, who recently moved with her family to Texas from California, had made a u-turn while she was driving her granddaughter to meet her [...]

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has authorized her office to spearhead efforts to extend the incarceration of a former Catholic priest and convicted child sex offender beyond the completion of his sentence. Madigan’s office filed a petition last week, three days before the scheduled release of Daniel McCormack, asking that he be held indefinitely under [...]

In one of the most closely watched cases on its calendar, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing of evidence gathered by police. The 5-4 decision is a setback for DNA testing advocates who point to more than 250 exonerations of wrongly convicted [...]

The Obama administration has moved to block the release of photographs documenting abuses of detainees in US military custody abroad, ordering Justice Department lawyers to argue that publication of the photos could endanger American troops. The decision marks an abrupt policy reversal for the Obama White House, which had signaled as recently as late April [...]