Read a PDF of our statement here. HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITY CONDEMNS EPA FOR FAILING TO ENFORCE CIVIL RIGHTS After Neglecting Investigation for 14 Years, EPA Closes Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against an Alabama State Agency ...
Read the PDF version of our statement here. Today, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager pled guilty to violating the civil rights of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, who Mr. Slager fatally shot during ...
In the late 1960s, the United States was enjoying a new birth of freedom. Earlier in the decade, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, the nation had at ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today the Supreme Court announced its decision in the case of Bank of America Corp. v. City of Miami, ruling that Miami may sue major banks for racially ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board In the latest chapter in its effort to remove Carl Paladino from ...
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, a landmark ruling that declared the exclusion of jurors on the basis of race to be a violation of the Fourteenth ...
Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a preliminary injunction to immediately halt Harris County’s practice of jailing people charged with misdemeanors solely because they are unable to pay bail. ...
