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TMI Fellow Richard Rothstein Discusses His Book “The Color of Law” on NewsOne Now

Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein joins Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to discuss his book, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” which examines how discriminatory U.S. housing policies have kept generations of African Americans from realizing the American dream.

Time to free those who’ve been jailed too long

Mark Osler, a former prosecutor calls for #JusticeInSentencing and writes it’s “Time to free those who’ve been jailed too long.” Currently 9,000 individuals, the vast majority of whom are African-American, are still serving excessive and wildly discriminatory sentences based on the 100:1 crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. Congress recognized this disparity was not justified scientifically or penologically and […]

Time Quotes Sherrilyn Ifill on President Obama’s State of the Union Speech

Policy Wonks and Advocates Critique Obama’s State of the Union Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund “I was extremely pleased that the President spoke to the importance of protecting the right to vote, and especially of making it easier to vote. I do wish he had spoken about […]

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Tiffani Burgess

Tiffani Burgess is a Assistant Counsel with LDF. She joins LDF from the ACLU Racial Justice Program where she served as the 2020 Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow. She graduated cum laude from Cornell University in 2011 with a B.A. in Anthropology and completed her J.D. at Columbia Law School in 2020. Prior to law school, Tiffani […]

Thurgood Marshall’s Stirring Acceptance Speech After Receiving the Prestigious Liberty Award on July 4, 1992

Thurgood Marshall Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States July 4, 1992 Independence Hall Philadelphia, PA *** It is a pleasure to speak here on the anniversary of our Nation’s independence. As someone who relishes the ability to do and say whatever I please, independence is a concept near and dear to […]

Thurgood Marshall Institute’s Research Finds Racial Justice Protests More Likely to Have Police Violence

Today, the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released Police and Protests: The Inequity of Police Responses to Racial Justice Protests, a new research brief showing that, during summer 2020, police were more likely to be violent when responding to racial justice protests. The brief details how police have repeatedly and disproportionately responded […]

Thurgood Marshall Institute’s Dr. Kesha Moore Named to Second Cohort of Culture of Health Leaders Institute for Racial Healing

Dr. Kesha Moore, Research Manager for the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), has been selected to the second cohort of the Culture of Health Leaders Institute for Racial Healing (CoHLI), a program of the National Collaborative of Health Equity. Dr. Moore joins 39 other talented leaders from 24 different states around the […]

Thurgood Marshall Institute to Collect, Share Oral Histories and Digitize Archival Material from LDF’s 83 Years Defending Civil Rights

Today the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced Sharing Our History, Informing Our Present, Envisioning Our Future, a new archives initiative led by the Thurgood Marshall Institute. The initiative will encompass a collection of oral histories and first-person stories from key civil rights figures, including lawyers and clients from past cases, as well as a digitization […]

Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Researcher Exposes Flaws in “De-Prosecution” Study’s Methodology

Today, as in previous eras, politicized discussions of crime ignore or distort crime data to intensify public fear, heighten racial tension, and undermine criminal justice reforms that promote long-term, sustainable public safety. At times, these discussions include references to data from studies that rely on flawed methodology. In July 2022, Criminology & Public Policy published […]