Five Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall Most people are aware that Thurgood Marshall was the first black Supreme Court Justice and won the infamous Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which ...
Why Voter Turnout Is So Low in New York’s Primaries Janai Nelson, the [Associate Director-Counsel] of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said holding federal and state primaries on different days and having closed ...
Money in Politics: A Barrier to 21st Century Civil Rights? On June 9, the Brennan Center, Demos, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights convened for a timely discussion about how the outsized ...
GAO Report on Segregation Misses the Bigger Picture Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a misleading report on school segregation, which I discussed with NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill and others on ...
Housing Segregation Undergirds the Nation’s Racial Inequities In June, the Supreme Court rescued the Fair Housing Act from a claim that it prohibited only overt discrimination—where a government body announces that it is enacting a ...
Batson and The Legacy of Lynchings This past Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the United State Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, which prohibits the intentional exclusion of prospective jurors from service on ...
A State Bucks the Trend on Voting Rights Until 2013, it was much easier to block discriminatory voting laws. Under the Voting Rights Act, all or parts of 16 states, most in the South, with ...
