S.C. Girl Protests Confederate Apparel Ban
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A 15-year-old girl led a small protest march Monday over her high school&#039;s ban on Confederate flag clothing, which she is also challenging in court.
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The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech rights Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
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A move to lift a ban on young women students wearing headscarves at universities has renewed the battle between secularists and the government
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PARIS -- A powerful Islamic organization alleged yesterday that officials were abusing a new law banning religious symbols from schools by expelling Muslim girls who were wearing printed bandannas -- not Islamic head scarves.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb.
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The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed "Bong Hits 4 Jesus."
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By Anonymous  Marching For Vouchers: Twelve-year-old Marcus Campbell is among the scores of demonstrators rallying in support of school voucher program legislation at the state Capitol in Salt Lake City. Ambiguity over the bill's authorization has halted startup of the program.
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Hundreds of women protested on Tuesday against the abduction of a female US aid worker in southern Afghanistan and called on religious leaders to condemn the kidnapping.
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Civil rights groups hope to see tens of thousands of demonstrators descend on a small Louisiana town on Thursday to support six black teenagers charged over a high school fight in a case that activists say reeks of lingering racism in the U.S. South.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Like many teenagers, high school sophomore Sabrina Kelly of Tuscaloosa had looked forward to getting her license on her 16th birthday.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 19--A year ago, a handful of people turned out to protest a plan to pipe Catawba River water into Cabarrus County.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. - A teenager is suing her school district for barring her from the prom last spring because she was wearing a dress styled as a large Confederate battle flag.  The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S.
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A group calling itself âVietnam Veterans Against McCainâ sent out a negative mailing in South Carolina.
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For some French Muslims, two worlds collided as the ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in public schools took effect.
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Republican Mike Huckabee said the government should stay out of disputes over the Confederate flag in South Carolina.
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By John Railey, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 4--The outrageous words must have hurt a lot of Southern Baptists.  "I believe kids are not safe in Southern Baptist churches," Christa Brown  told The Associated Press the other day.
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PARIS - Some 100 to 120 girls have defied a new law banning Islamic head scarves in classrooms and are in talks with school officials trying to convince them to remove the head coverings, Education Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.    It was the first complete figure made public since the start of the school year last Thursday...