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  • Building the pathway to the middle class

    Damaso Reyes

    April 27, 2023 |

    New York Amsterdam News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Career and Technical Education schools teach teens a mix of academic and technical requirements so they can choose to pursue a career in the trades industry upon graduation.

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  • Harlem Organization Helped Change the Face of Construction

    Damaso Reyes

    April 27, 2023 |

    New York Amsterdam News |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

    Fight Back, Inc. is a local community-based organization that worked to get construction jobs for Blacks, Spanish-surnamed, and other minorities in New York City over the years. The organization has been very effective in integrating the skilled and construction trades and ensuring workers of color have equal opportunity and has been replicated in other cities like Seattle and Detroit.

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  • The invisible shield: how activists and lawmakers are breaking down qualified immunity, Part 3

    Herb Boyd Damaso Reyes

    April 15, 2021 |

    New York Amsterdam News |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The protests against police abuses in 2020 prodded numerous legislatures to challenge the legal doctrine of qualified immunity, which protects police officers from being sued for violating people's civil rights. Colorado's law, the first to pass, was a direct response to the protests, as was New York City's law. While one Colorado lawsuit has already been filed, the full effects of these laws and others in the pipeline won't be known for some time. Proponents say these changes won't transform police culture, but they are necessary precursors to making deeper changes.

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  • The invisible shield: how qualified immunity was created and nearly destroyed the ability to sue police officers in America Pt. I

    Herb Boyd Damaso Reyes

    April 01, 2021 |

    New York Amsterdam News |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Civil Rights Act of 1871, as a direct response to white resistance to Reconstruction-era reforms in the former Confederacy, gave people the right to sue government officials for depriving them of their civil rights. But a series of court decisions from the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s through the 1980s undercut the law's intent, so much so that police officers ended up with "qualified immunity" from liability for rights violations – effectively avoiding accountability, even when they act in bad faith.

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