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The Changing Landscape of Public Safety: Police Accountability Bills and Systemic Changes by State and City

After George Floyd The Changing Landscape of Public Safety Justice in Public Safety Project Police Accountability Bills Index Systemic Changes to Public Safety Legislative Reforms to Strengthen Accountability, Reduce Reliance on Policing, and Invest in Black and Brown Communities Advocates, impacted families, and communities across the country rallied behind the need for police accountability legislation […]

The Changing Landscape of Policing

The Boston Globe Taps JP Schnapper for Perspective on Disparate Impact Case

The Supreme Court should learn from a pool party in Texas For four decades, this interpretation of the law — known in legal circles as “disparate impact” — has been used to punish banks for steering toxic loans to blacks and Latinos, and mortgage companies for charging higher fees. In 2011, the Justice Department relied […]

The Birmingham News: Voting Rights Act still vital, representatives of Shelby County blacks tell judge

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department and civil rights advocates representing black voters in Shelby County have asked a federal judge to uphold the historic Voting Rights Act as a fair and still-necessary deterrent to bias at the ballot box. "Unchecked racial discrimination in voting erodes our Constitution's promise of equality, sharply undermines the integrity […]

The Battle To Protect The Vote

The Bad Housing Blues: Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee Report

The Atlantic Covers LDF’s Pivotal Voting Rights Case Challenging Judicial Elections in Louisiana

In places with black minorities, at-large voting is an especially effective way to circumvent the VRA’s requirements that electoral districts maintain some sort of geographic and demographic coherence. That’s because the very nature of Jim Crow tended to pack black communities into dense natural districts; they became the basis for post-VRA voting districts, which have […]

The Alabama Voting Rights Act (ALVRA), Explained

Alabama Needs its Own Voting Rights Act The Alabama Voting Rights Act (ALVRA) Alabama has a longstanding history and ongoing record of racial discrimination in voting and beyond. The state has also played an historic role in U.S. voting rights as the site of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march and brutal beating of John […]

The Advocate: We Still Need Majority-Minority Judicial Sub-Districts

More than 20 years later, I remain of the view that the report’s findings, including on the importance of ensuring diversity through electoral subdistricts, continues to resonate today. For example, in Terrebonne Parish, a federal lawsuit seeks to create a majority-black subdistrict to elect one judge of the 32nd Judicial District Court, the state court […]

The Advocate: Ensuring Terrebonne’s Black Community has Voice in Electing Judges

In 1953, I integrated Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. My admission, as the first black student on a campus today serving more than 30,000 students, was possible after my father and namesake, civil rights attorney A.P. Tureaud Sr., successfully challenged LSU’s discriminatory admissions policies. That lawsuit and more filed by my father, alongside Thurgood […]