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Fayetteville City Clerk's office certifies signatures — civil rights ordinance will go to a public vote

The Fayetteville City Clerk's office has certified that enough signatures were gathered to trigger a special election on Fayetteville's new civil rights ordinance, the Fayetteville Flyer reports. The effort to force a popular vote on the ordinance, led by a Repeal 119, a church-led group, gathered 5,714 signatures. Petitioners needed 4,905; the City Clerk's office began certifying the signatures last week and stopped at the end of the day Friday once enough signatures had been validated. The ordinance to discourage discrimination in housing and employment passed in the City Council 6-2 last month. The vote came after 10 hours of discussion, with many conservatives furious because the classes of people protected included gay and transgender people.
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Petitions submitted today to repeal Fayetteville civil rights ordinance

Petitions were submitted today in Fayetteville by proponents of legal discrimination against gay people. They want a special election on the city's new civil rights ordinance, which covers multiple classes of people but is controversial because of LGBT protection.
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Fayetteville Council votes 6-2 for civil rights ordinance that protects gay, transgender people

At 3:20 a.m. today, the Fayetteville City Council voted 6-2 to approve a historic civil rights ordinance that includes LGBT people in its umbrella of employment, housing and accommodation protections. The vote followed 10 hours of comment from 140 people and poignant testimony from gay and transgender people about discrimination they've experienced.

Fayetteville civil rights ordinance runs into opposition

The Fayetteville City Council amended a proposed civil rights ordinance to satisfy some objections, but people with religious objections to preventing discrimination against gay people turned out to protest the measure.
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Bull Shoals police chief ordered by fed. judge to live with the mayor

In Bull Shoals, sitting police chief Dan Sutterfield has been ordered by a federal judge to live with the town's mayor, Bruce Powell, as a condition of his release from jail after Sutterfield was arrested on FBI allegations that he hit, kicked and tased a handcuffed suspect.. Powell says he will not ask Sutterfield to step down.

Arkansas: It gets a C in survey on teaching civil rights

A new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center ranks the states on how well they teach civil rights. Arkansas gets a C. Some other Southern states get an A.
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Rep. John Walker is back at work after cancer treatment

State Rep. John Walker of Little Rock made a couple of appearances at the Capitol this week, at both a Black Caucus meeting and a Judiciary Committee meeting, after losing a couple of weeks to hospital treatment.

Daisy Gatson Bates Day: A day for history

I mentioned earlier that Washington's Birthday is a good day to think about veterans. This is also a state holiday — Daisy Batson Gates Day, a tribute to the NAACP leader who was a high-profile figure in the Little Rock school crisis of 1957 (and an increasingly nuanced one, as careful history begins to supplant some folkloric themes.)
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Daisy Bates documentary premieres at UALR

University of Arkansas hosted the world premiere of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, a well-researched documentary that presents a frank portrait of a complex activist.

Ellison family sues over Little Rock police shooting

The sons of Eugene Ellison, 67, who was killed by Little Rock police in his apartment last year, have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their father's civil rights were violated.
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Obama restores justice in Justice Department

This shouldn't be remarkable, but, because of the Bush years, it is. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has resumed hiring lawyers with civil rights experience for its civil rights division, rather than conservative ideologues with political agendas.

She made it better

As we noted a few days back, Arkansas gay and lesbian rights advocate Carolyn Wagner passed away on Jan. 18 after a long battle with cancer.
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