By: Todd A. Cox Source: CNN The US Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed moment in the fight for racial justice. The ruling not only banned segregation in ...
By: MP McQueen Source: The National Law Journal A week after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act, now 50 years old, outlawed ...
By: Angel Harris, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Darius Charney Source: New York Times Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Most people think we won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a ...
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF), The American Civil Liberties Union, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights called on Congress today to take ...
Despite fierce and overwhelming public opposition, the Sumter County School District in South Carolina is finalizing plans to close rural schools, attended by predominately Black students, in an attempt to address the School District’s unexplained ...
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously ruled that an employer rescinding a job offer to a qualified Black woman solely because she wore her hair in dreadlocks (“locs”) does not violate federal civil rights ...
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign New York City police officers shot Saheed Vassell yesterday afternoon, firing 10 shots at the unarmed, bi-polar 34-year-old after officers claimed he had a gun. Sherrilyn Ifill, President ...
