The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century The NAACP Legal Defense Fund used the legal system to overcome separate but equal, desegregate schools and public facilities, and bring some measure ...
Civil Rights Advocates Question Donald Trump’s Alt-Right Disavowal Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said Trump’s words would need to be followed by actions, such as dismissing Bannon and ...
‘Disturbing’ — Civil rights groups take on Facebook over ad discrimination When ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed advertisers to target or exclude users by their “ethnic affinity,” the social network at first doubled down on ...
North Carolina’s War on Voters Is Heating Up This all began anew with the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act in its landmark 2013 case Shelby County v. Holder, which removed a requirement that states ...
President-Elect Trump: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. How did we get to this point? And what do we do now? Last Week Tonight ...
‘Law and Order’ Under Trump Joy Reid and her expert panel discuss the implications of Donald Trump shaping policy surrounding policing, civil rights oversight, and more.
Predatory Lending and the Fair Housing Act Before the Supreme Court On Election Day, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a highly consequential case about lending discrimination and the subprime mortgage crisis. In this ...
