The Atlantic Philanthropies and Columbia University today announced the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a 10-year, $60 million program for courageous and creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism in the United States and South ...
On October 20, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Korematsu Center), 18 other bar associations and non-profit organizations, and 32 law school professors in ...
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the police-involved shooting death of Ms. Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old Black woman and Bronx resident with a history of mental ...
“Jack Greenberg was an American hero. If all he had done was serve in the navy during WWII, he would have earned that status. But his greatest battle was against our country’s greatest evil – ...
“By example, Jack taught young lawyers how to conduct ourselves in litigation; courtesy to opposing counsel, respect for the Court, solid and thorough research and preparation, and expressing oneself orally and in writing with clarity ...
Read a pdf of this article here. A memorial service celebrating Jack Greenberg will be held on Monday December 5th at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University in New York (1160 Amsterdam Avenue) at 2:30 p.m. ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (“LDF”) deeply mourns the loss of civil rights icon and our second Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, who was the last living attorney who argued the Brown v. Board ...
