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Today the Senate confirmed Kenneth L. Marcus to serve as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In January the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter formally opposing ...
The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed core anti-discrimination principles in public accommodations laws in its ruling today in Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Relying on a 1968 case that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) litigated, the ...
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Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined almost 50 Tulsa civil rights attorneys, religious leaders, members of law enforcement, elected officials and activists ...
By: MSNBC Source: ‘Everyday Racism in America’: Real stories of racial bias On May 29th, 8,000 Starbucks stores across the country closed for anti-bias training following the arrest of two black men. The same day, NAACP ...
A week after the 64th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nominations of Wendy Vitter and Andrew Oldham, who each refused ...