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  • LA Times: Rights group takes a step-by-step approach on gay marriage

    3/02/11
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    The Los Angeles Times

    Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, is arguing that it is unconstitutional to discriminate against gay couples who are already legally married. It hopes its incremental approach will lead to a broader ruling by the Supreme Court.

    Two years ago, a small and little-known civil rights group in Boston launched a legal attack on the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a legal union between a man and woman. But it did not argue that gays and lesbians have a right to marry under the Constitution.

  • Reading Thurgood Marshall’s early letters

    2/24/11
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    The St. Louis American

    There is nothing quite like a major figure from history speaking to us directly. This is the experience we have when reading Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (Amistad, 2011).

  • NYT: Is Anyone Watching?

    2/23/11
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    The New York Times

    Two years ago, the Supreme Court looked over a cliff and decided not to jump. The question was whether a core section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as renewed by Congress in 2006 for another 25 years, was constitutional. A majority opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. strongly suggested that it wasn’t.

  • Former LDF intern edits new Columbia Journal of Race and Law

    2/18/11
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    Columbia Law School
    The Columbia Journal of Race and Law, whose editor-in-chief is Sheila Adams (Columbia Law, '11), made its official debut today.  Sheila is a current Warren Scholarship recipient and a former Summer LDF Law Intern. 
     

  • TV Series Tries to Revive Civil Rights Cold Cases

    2/15/11
    Source: 
    The New York Times

    Better known for crime fare like “I (Almost) Got Away With It” and “Deadly Women,” Investigation Discovery is using Black History Month to turn the spotlight on three unsolved, racially motivated killings of the 1960s. For Keith Beauchamp, the 39-year-old documentary filmmaker who is an executive producer of the series and its host, it is familiar terrain.