Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | page
Policy Advocacy: Economic Justice Your Rights as a Federal Worker The Trump Administration’s attack on the federal workforce impacts thousands of Americans. Here are critical rights and protections you have. The Trump Administration’s attack on the federal workforce threatens the livelihoods of hardworking public servants across the country. The federal workforce, which is nearly 20% […]
Sunday, July 2, 2017 | news
Five More Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall This Sunday will be the 109th birthday of the legendary Black lawyer and jurist Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993. As a young lawyer, Marshall argued and won the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated the desegregation of schools across the […]
Thursday, January 12, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Leaders Submit Letter to Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Washington, DC — Five leading civil rights groups submitted a letter to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee expressing serious concern over the nomination of Dr. Ben Carson to be the United States Secretary of Housing […]
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | news
There’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to split from its local school district. Last week, the nonprofit group EdBuild released an eye-opening report detailing the breadth and effects of […]
Monday, June 26, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By James Cadogan, Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, and Monique Lin-Luse, Assistant Counsel at LDF There’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to split from its local school district. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Fisher v. University of Texas Protecting holistic, race conscious admissions Fisher v. University of Texas – Austin is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the consideration of race in the University of Texas (UT) undergraduate admissions policy. The case was first filed in 2008 by two white women, Abigail Fisher and […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
When I started school in Virginia in 1968, the public schools in my county were still segregated by race. When our school board finally began complying with Brown vs. Board of Education, a group of parents decided to start an all-white private school. They showed up in our driveway one evening to convince my parents […]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | news
For Cris Rubio, there wasn’t much suspense about what came after he graduated high school in 2003. Rubio had been second in his class for much of his four years — he eventually finished fourth — and under the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan, any student in the top 10 percent of their high school […]
Monday, June 27, 2016 | news
PBS NEWSHOUR: Mark Walsh, Impact of Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Could Reach K-12, Higher Ed (Jul. 15, 2016) “This was obviously a big surprise,” said Christina Swarns, the [Director of Litigation] for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the university’s plan. “It demonstrates […]
Friday, May 18, 2018 | page
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