Today, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released long-awaited data that unequivocally demonstrate disparities in school resources and disciplinary practices along racial lines. Students of color are more likely than white students to ...
New York, NY—Twelve legislative seats in the New York State Assembly and State Senate are currently vacant, depriving approximately 1.8 million New Yorkers, over 800,000 of whom are people of color, of their fundamental right ...
Click here to take action and tell the Senate to confirm Debo Adegbile Click here to read a letter from the National Lawyers Guild and other members of the legal community denouncing the Senate’s rejection ...
This week the United States Congress introduced critically important new legislation, the Fair Employment Protection Act. The measure, introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) in the Senate, and Representatives George Miller ...
On March 3, 2014, LDF sent a letter to Edward FitzGerald, the County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jeannet Wright, Acting County Treasurer, and the members of the Cuyahoga County council urging them to make ...
This weekend marked the 49th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march that grew out of voter registration movements spearheaded by SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Lawyers from the NAACP Legal ...
Admissions offers issued for New York City’s Specialized High Schools demonstrate that a trend of unfairness and acute racial disparities in admissions has persisted. Out of the 952 eighth grade students who received offers to ...
