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How Black Educators Improve Outcomes and Advance Educational Equity: Report Summary

Photo via Shutterstock.com Thurgood Marshall Institute Report Black Educators as Essential Workers for Educational Equity Report Summary By Kesha Moore, PhD TMI Research Manager Download the Report Read the Full Report Why We Conducted this Report Understanding how Black educators create effective learning environments for Black students is key to narrowing the opportunity gap that […]

Houston’s NPR affiliate reports on federal investigation into Bryan’s School-to-Prison Pipeline

KUHF, an NPR affiliate radio station in Houston, Texas, reported on the federal investigation into the Bryan Independent School District’s policy of citing criminal misdemeanors for normative childlike behavior. Excerpt from the show’s transcript: When De’angelo Rollins started sixth grade here at Stephen F. Austin, he was excited. It’s a middle school in Bryan about […]

Houston Chronicle Calls for Leadership and a New Fair Sentencing Hearing for Duane Buck

Today, the Houston Chronicle published an editorial calling on the Harris County District Attorney and U.S. Senator John Cornyn to show leadership and demand a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF client, Duane Buck. Read about it here.

Houston Area Urban League v. Abbott

Houston Area Urban League V. Abbott Challenging Texas Restrictive Voting Law Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) v. Abbott  is a lawsuit challenging S.B. 1, a Texas law that greatly restricts access to voting. S.B. 1 includes several suppressive voting provisions that will make it much harder for Texans to vote and disenfranchise some altogether, particularly […]

House Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearing on the Voting Rights Act

In keeping with the bipartisan support that has characterized each reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, including the most recent in 2006, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice has scheduled a hearing, “The Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court’s Decision in Shelby County,” for Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.  The hearing will take place […]

Houma Times: Terrebonne Judicial Trial Raises Fundamental Questions about Equality of Opportunity for Black Residents

The question of whether the rights of black voters are violated by the practice of at-large voting for judges in Terrebonne Parish is now fully in the hands of a federal judge, whose verdict is expected in August. Friday afternoon more than one hundred black men and women from Terrebonne Parish packed a third-floor courtroom […]

Honor Dr. King by helping people get work

Amid nationwide agitation to increase federal and state minimum wages and successful efforts to “ban the box” that requires job applicants to describe their criminal history, Johnathan Smith, Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, and Madeline Neighly of National Employment Law Project pen an op-ed for msnbc.com. Honor Dr. King by helping people get work By […]

Hon. David H. Coar

Hon. David H. Coar served as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois for 16 years and as a United States Bankruptcy Judge for 8 years.  He served as the first United States Bankruptcy Trustee in the Northern District of Illinois from 1979 to 1982. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Coar graduated from Syracuse […]

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