Friday, June 8, 2018 | news
By: Errol Louis Source: NY1 Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign LDF Senior Community Organizer Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele and Brooklyn Historical Society’s Julie Golia join Errol Louis to discuss the death of Arthur Miller Jr., who died at the hands of police officers in 1978, and reflect on how it sparked a generation of activists.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 | news
Our legal system often must determine the monetary value of a person’s life to assess damages owed. To make this determination, usually after serious injury or death, our system calls upon forensic economists, experts used to help calculate the incalculable. Many forensic economists take the victim’s race, ethnicity or gender into account when calculating what […]
Thursday, May 2, 2019 | news
Yesterday, Texas Lawyer published an article reporting on the confirmation of judicial nominee J. Campbell Barker to the Eastern District of Texas. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Director of Policy Lisa Cylar Barrett was quoted in the piece saying, “Barker’s record is … rife with efforts to thwart racial justice, including defending Texas’ […]
Friday, June 13, 2014 | news
Amid outrage over the stabbing of two children in a public-housing elevator, Jin Hee Lee calls for solutions that go beyond increased policing or even surveillance cameras to include partnering with NYCHA residents themselves. Prince Joshua (P.J.) Avitto and Mikayla Capers should be playing right now, enjoying the warm June weather, without a care […]
Monday, October 23, 2017 | news
“Public money is going to a private law firm to stop the remedial process and defend discrimination,” said Leah Aden, senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She noted that this is happening even as Louisiana — which has long had a justice system rife with racial inequality — faces a billion-dollar budget deficit. The NAACP filed […]
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 | news
In 2020, the federal government will undertake the monumental and important task of attempting to count each person residing within our country’s borders. An exercise that has taken place every 10 years, since 1790, and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, it cannot be overstated how important the Census is to the well-functioning, representative democracy […]
Thursday, October 12, 2017 | news
The Wisconsin voting rights case before the Supreme Court has been cast as the definitive test of whether partisan gerrymandering is permitted by the Constitution. But a closer look at the case and others like it shows that race remains an integral element of redistricting disputes, even when the intent of those involved was to […]
Thursday, December 7, 2017 | news
The majority of Columbus, Ohio’s, city council members are African Americans. But the city’s method for electing city council members is racially discriminatory, or at least this is what Jonathan Beard, a developer in Columbus’s poorest neighborhoods, is trying to prove. And the nation’s oldest and most respected civil rights organization thinks that he may […]
Thursday, December 7, 2017 | news
The majority of Columbus, Ohio’s, city council members are African Americans. But the city’s method for electing city council members is racially discriminatory, or at least this is what Jonathan Beard, a developer in Columbus’s poorest neighborhoods, is trying to prove. And the nation’s oldest and most respected civil rights organization thinks that he may […]
Friday, February 9, 2018 | news
The Jan. 29 article regarding the Tulane University report on the ‘gavel gap: rightly notes the stark under-representation of women and people of color on the Louisiana state bench, yet does not analyze why this gap persists. The at-large electoral system for many of Louisiana’s state courts — historically and into the present — has […]
