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How Student Loan Forgiveness Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap and Advance Economic Justice

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | page

How Student Loan Forgiveness Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap and Advance Economic Justice By Marisa Wright The burden of student loan debt is at a crisis level in the United States. And students of color are bearing the brunt of this crushing weight, which impacts countless aspects of their lives — and exacerbates […]

How State Voting Rights Acts Can Build a More Inclusive Democracy

Friday, May 12, 2023 | page

Political Participation State Voting rights Acts Protecting Access to the Ballot Box State by State As Black voters and other voters of color across the country face the greatest assault on their voting rights since the Jim Crow era, a growing number of states are acting to protect the right to vote and safeguard our […]

How Shelby County v. Holder Broke Democracy

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | page

How Shelby County v. Holder  Broke Democracy In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt its greatest blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in its Shelby County v. Holder decision that gutted essential protections of the VRA. Shelby ushered in a wave of discriminatory voting and redistricting laws. From voter suppression to discriminatory redistricting, […]

How Racism in the Courtroom Produces Wrongful Convictions and Mass Incarceration

Thursday, July 7, 2022 | page

How Racism in the Courtroom Produces Wrongful Convictions and Mass Incarceration By Ella Wiley Senior Communications Associate In recent years, police violence and militarization have been under a microscope. For many Americans, it is now frighteningly clear that police consider Black people suspects when sitting in their backyards, failing to signal, and simply going about […]

How Police Use Qualified Immunity to Get Away with Misconduct and Violence

Monday, November 8, 2021 | page

Five Times Police Used Qualified Immunity to Get Away with Misconduct and Violence By John Guzman Communications Associate – Police Accountability Throughout the United States, law enforcement officers have stolen money and valuables, shot children, attempted to harm family pets, killed vulnerable people, and, worst of all, they have gotten away with it — all […]

How LDF is Challenging South Carolina’s Unconstitutional Redistricting Maps at the Supreme Court

Friday, October 13, 2023 | page

Discriminatory Redistricting’s Sordid Roots How South Carolina Attempted to “Bleach” Charleston and the Attorneys Fighting to Stop It — All the Way to the Supreme Court By Keecee DeVenny Senior Digital Media Strategist In Charleston, South Carolina, colorful low country cottages and southern plantation homes stand tall and proud on palm tree-lined cobblestone streets. The […]

How Georgia Voters Can Prepare to Vote, Even Amid Rising Challenges

Thursday, May 12, 2022 | page

Prepared to Vote How Georgians Can Prepare to Vote, Even Amid Rising Challenges By Olamide Adetunji Attorney, Voting Rights Defender and Prepared to Vote Projects This election season, Georgia voters are casting their ballots with a new, highly suppressive voting law in place. This law, S.B. 202, was passed by the state’s legislature in a […]

Protected: How Federal Workforce Cuts Threaten an Already Fragile Black Middle Class

Thursday, May 15, 2025 | page

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Protected: How Employers Can Step Up After the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | page

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How Discriminatory Criminal History Restrictions are a Barrier to Housing

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | case-issue

Demonstrators hold signs during a stop on former HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s Listening Tour in Miami, Fl. on Apr. 12, 2017. (Photo via Getty Images) Thurgood Marshall Institute Brief Barred from Housing The Discriminatory Impacts of Criminal History Background Restrictions in Tenant Screening Brief Summary By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD TMI Senior Researcher and Statistician Read […]

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