Contacts Michelle Boykins, Advancing Justice – AAJC, 202-604-1760, Comrequests@advancingjustice-aajc.org Juan Martinez, Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org Lacy Crawford, Lawyers’ Committee, 202-558-7900, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org Andrea Dreier, North Carolina Justice Center, andrea@ncjustice.org Public and private universities have instituted race-conscious ...
Today, a divided U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., holding that a number of federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, do ...
Today, in a promising exercise of the President’s clemency authority, the Biden administration issued a number of pardons and commutations, and announced a series of investments to support post-incarceration re-entry programs and other means of ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Natasha Merle’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) sent a letter to Mississippi High School Activities Association expressing concern regarding grooming policies that disproportionately target and penalize Black children for wearing their hair in culturally ...
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded its investigation of the Mississippi State Penitentiary known as Parchman, finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that the state of Mississippi routinely violated the constitutional ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced its second 10-person cohort (bios below) of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP). Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking pipeline program will endow the South ...
