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Clyde Murphy: 1948 — 2010

Clyde Murphy, an attorney who was a powerful advocate for the cause of social justice, died August 17 in Chicago. In his 35-year career in the law, he worked, first, at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in New York, before becoming Executive Director of the Chicago office of the Lawyers Committee for Civil […]

Clyde E. Murphy, 1948-2010

Civil rights attorney sued Chicago for discriminating against African-American firefighter applicants Clyde E. Murphy, a crusading civil rights attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court case that found Chicago discriminated against African-American firefighter applicants, died Tuesday, Aug. 17, his family said. Mr. Murphy, 62, died at Illinois Masonic Medical Center after a pulmonary embolism, his […]

Clout Street: Quinn signs death penalty ban, commutes 15 death row sentences to life

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a historic ban on the death penalty in Illinois and commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without parole. Quinn signed the legislation in his Capitol office surrounded by longtime opponents of capital punishment in a state where flaws in the process led […]

Clothing Chain Wet Seal Settles Lawsuit Charging It with Firing African-American Employees

Company Agrees to Compensate Former Store Managers and Change Company Practices Wet Seal agreed to settle a national class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and co-counsel.  Cogdell v. The Wet Seal, Inc. charged that former top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get […]

Clothing Chain Wet Seal Settles Lawsuit Charging It with Firing African-American Employees

Wet Seal agreed to settle a national class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and co-counsel.  Cogdell v. The Wet Seal, Inc. charged that former top executives atWet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African-American store management employees for the sake of its “brand image,” and to […]

Closing Arguments Conclude in Landmark Lawsuit that Could Affect More than 100 People on North Carolina’s Death Row

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2024 Troi Barnes, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org   Emily Berkowitz, ACLU National, media@aclu.org Keisha Williams, ACLU-NC, kmwilliams@acluofnc.org Gretchen Engel, The Center for Death Penalty Litigation, gretchen@cdpl.org RALEIGH, N.C. – Attorneys delivered closing arguments today in North Carolina v. Hasson Bacote, a landmark case filed under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act […]

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Cleveland Donald Jr

Cleveland Donald Jr. was the second black graduate of the University of Mississippi, andstarted a black studies program at the college. Born in Newton, Miss., Donald attended Tougaloo College in Jackson for a year, then enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1964 and graduated in 1966 with a history degree. He later earned a […]

Claude M. Johnson

Claude Johnson is the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Chief Development Officer. He has over 40 years of experience in the non-profit sector, spanning a career that has included arts management, consultancy, and major gifts fundraising in the higher education and culture sectors. Mr. Johnson most recently served as the Chief Advancement Officer for […]

Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions

Admissions policies that take class into account, rather than race, are getting a renewed push as a win-win solution. The contention is that they more fully serve the goal of diversity in higher education and provide a progressive way to resolve an enduring conflict that has now returned to the Supreme Court in a case […]