Despite her exceptional and exemplary journalism credentials and having received a faculty recommendation of tenure for the Knight Foundation-endowed Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was effectively and discriminatorily denied tenure in 2021 by the University of North Carolina ...
Yesterday, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating consequences ...
Today, LDF sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in support of the nomination of Judge J. Michelle Childs to serve as a judge on the Court ...
Today, in an unprecedented move, leaders of eight legacy civil rights organizations have joined together with leaders of national reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to request a meeting with President Biden, following his Executive ...
Today, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services to defend reproductive rights throughout the country by directing federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the ...
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, arguing that the petitioner — a Black man on death row in Texas ...
Today, seventeen civil rights groups and youth organizations sent letters to every Texas school superintendent urging them to ensure their district’s dress codes and related polices are not fostering unlawful discrimination that unfairly denies students ...
