A History of Housing Discrimination, From the 1960s to Donald Trump The Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968 to address housing discrimination and segregation. While it prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, and ...
Room for Compromise on Voter ID Laws? “They really do not protect our nation in any meaningful way and instead deter voters from turning out to polls and casting a vote when they do,” says ...
A Southern City Wants to Secede from Its School District, Raising Concerns about Segregation “Resegregation is something that gets talked about a lot as sort of like a drip of water over time, and it ...
Voting Rights Victories Piling Up “In a moment when this country is becoming more diverse, in which more communities of color participated in the 2008 and 2012 elections, legislatures enacted these discriminatory laws, and luckily ...
The Questions Raised by Gaines’ death The death of Korryn Gaines after a seven-hour standoff with Baltimore County police at her Randallstown apartment poses a real challenge to a department that has made pointed efforts ...
Voting Rights Success? Not So Fast In Texas, Michigan, North Carolina and elsewhere, federal courts in recent months have struck down one discriminatory voting law after another in a series of major victories for ...
The Crusade of a Democratic Superlawyer with Multimillion-Dollar Backing Some who have worked on voting issues for years are wary of the optics. “I love Marc, but I want to be very clear about who ...
