On Saturday, an Allentown Police Department (APD) officer was filmed kneeling on a man’s neck after attempting to restrain him. According to law enforcement, the man was physically ill and vomiting outside of a hospital ...
Today, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement regarding poll worker mask usage and polling place safety precautions following Louisiana’s primary election: “During Louisiana’s ...
This week, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling regarding an emergency motion and supplemental submission filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the law firm of ...
DETROIT, Mich. — Today, a coalition of civil rights organizations filed a class action lawsuit in federal court to make water affordable and permanently end water shutoffs for Detroit residents. The city’s water rates are among the highest in the nation. Combined with a ...
DETROIT, Mich. – A coalition of civil rights organizations fighting to end water shutoffs in Detroit and ensure water is affordable to city residents had the following response to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order issued ...
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and leading civil rights groups issued the following statement on Facebook’s civil rights audit: “This audit has laid bare what we already know — Facebook is ...
WASHINGTON – Vanita Gupta, President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the following joint statement on ...
