This story was originally published on HR Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily HR Dive newsletter. Dive Brief: A group of former Google employees may proceed with claims that the company unlawfully retaliated against them following their participation in a protest against the company’s work with the Israeli government, a federal judge held Thursday. The employees in Anderson, et al. v. Google LLC staged protests at two Google offices — one in California and another in New ...

Although President Trump has yet to follow through on his threat to send National Guard troops to Chicago, ICE has increased its presence in the area as the immigration crackdown intensifies. Friday, federal agents used tear gas to disperse protesters outside of a suburban ICE processing center. And one state lawmaker is going viral for standing up to the agents she says were targeting families in a West Chicago suburb.Stay in your car. Tell everyone don't open your doors city. This is my city.That's right. ...

Joseph McNeel was a man with a mission to make a change. He passed away at the age of 83, but he was just 17 years old when the sitin movement began back in 1960. >> I became very angry at the fact that everyone talked about change, but very few people did anything about it.A civil rights icon and a decorated Air Force veteran, McNeel was part of the ENT4, staging a sit in protest at the FW World Wars lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1st of 1960. From that point on, McNeel continued to use his braver ...

Joseph McNeel was a man with a mission to make a change. He passed away at the age of 83, but he was just 17 years old when the sitin movement began back in 1960. >> I became very angry at the fact that everyone talked about change, but very few people did anything about it. A civil rights icon and a decorated Air Force veteran, McNeel was part of the ENT4, staging a sit in protest at the FW World Wars lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1st of 1960. >> And I talked to mom. I said, "Mom, I might be goin ...

70 years after one of the seminal horrors in civil rights history, the gun used to kill 14-year-old EMTT Till is on display for the first time. The brutal torture and then shooting of Till with the Ithaca 45 caliber pistol galvanized a movement after his mother insisted his disfigured body be shown in an open casket. So, as she said, the world could see what they did to my baby. Hezekiah Watkins was 10 when Till died. At 14, imprisoned as a freedom writer and he was at the museum for the unveiling. >> I got ...

Joining us now, Texas State Representatives James Telerico and Jalanda Jones. Thank you both so much for for coming on. Um, Representative Telerico, I want to start with you because you know, you guys are gone.The the state troopers can't pop up to Chicago or wherever you are to grab you, but James Cornin, your senator, says that the FBI has approved some kind of plan um to go around the country and get in you guys. How worried are you that federal officials are on their way this week to arrest you all and ...

Warrantless detentions have screeched to a halt in parts of California after a judge rules, “You can’t just walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers’” https://t.co/nz2OwazzSd ...

Wednesday will mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark legislation securing democratic rights for non-white Americans after nearly two centuries of discrimination. In recent decades, the Voting Rights Act has become a shadow of its former self, gutted by the John Roberts Supreme Court with the Shelby County versus Holder decision in 2013 and further chipped away at ever since by Republicans at every level of government. Joining me now is the holder in the Shelby County versu ...

One of the largest and oldest Latino rights countries in the US has filed a formal complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over its mass deportation policies. The complaint was filed Thursday by the League of United Latin American Citizens on behalf of 27year-old Adrien Ringle, a legal US resident they say was wrongfully removed from the country without due process and sent to the Seat Prison in El Salvador. He has now been sent to his native Venezuela in a prisoner swap.Joining me now is the CEO ...

Want to get to some breaking news now because in just the last couple of minutes, we're learning a former Louisville police officer will receive 33 months in prison after his conviction related to the shooting death of Briana Taylor. Want to show you that courthouse uh in Louisville. You see people gathering here as this has just come in.Here's why this matters. We're talking about Brett Hankesen, that former police officer. Um it was recommended by the Department of Justice that he face one day behind bars ...