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Bad Times in Tulia, Texas

On July 23, 1999, more than ten percent of Tulia’s African-American population was arrested as the result of a drug “sting” conducted by a lone police officer with a troubled history in law enforcement. Swisher County deputy sheriff Tom Coleman alleged that 46 Tulia residents sold him drugs. Forty of those arrested were African-American, three […]

Bad Housing Blues: New Report Reveals Evidence of Source of Discrimination in the Memphis Area and Proposes Recommendations to Address National Concerns

Three-year study shows housing discrimination evident where racism and income inequality converge Washington, D.C. — The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today released a new report, THE BAD HOUSING BLUES: Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee. The report examines economic and racial discrimination in housing, […]

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

The Bad Housing Blues Discrimination in the Housing Choice Voucher Program in Memphis, Tennessee Part 1: Housing Assistance Housing Choice Voucher Program Part 2: Housing Availability Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee Part 3: Housing Access Strategies for Change Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of racial bias and economic inequality, and often, these forces have […]

Author Gilbert King Congratulated by Legal Defense Fund on Pulitzer Prize

Author Gilbert King, Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction visited LDF’s offices in New York, where he was congratulated by LDF’s staff.  King’s book Devil in the Grove:  Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, recounts the story of an alleged rape in Lake County, Florida in 1949 and […]

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