(Beaufort, SC) — Yesterday, the Burton-Dale-Beaufort Branch of the NAACP strongly urged the Beaufort City Council to end the current discriminatory at-large based system of voting and put up for voter referendum a district-based voting ...
In a segment on PBS Newshour, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill called for answers in the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who died a day before he was due to start his first ...
(NEW YORK, NY) –The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson, Missouri, is the latest tragic incident in a summer marked by several police-involved homicides. In this case, the ...
New York Medical Examiner Rules Garner’s Death was a Homicide Caused by an Illegal NYPD Chokehold (New York, NY) On Friday, the New York City Medical Examiner ruled that the death of Eric Garner — the ...
The City’s 15-Day Moratorium is Insufficient, Fails to Address Systemic Process Problems (Detroit, MI)–The city of Detroit’s fifteen-day moratorium on water shut-offs, announced yesterday nearly four months after the shut-offs began, is welcomed but ...
Civil Rights Organizations Ask For Immediate Moratorium on Water Shut-offs Update 7/21/2014: Detroit has imposed a 15-day moratorium on water shut-offs — but it’s not enough. The financial aid program for Detroit’s neediest people must ...
