Remembering Amelia Boynton Robinson The image of Amelia Boynton Robinson knocked out cold by white troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, during the protest march from Selma to Montgomery, is one of the ...
Outrage grows over fatal police shootings Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will return early from Cuba as pressure mounts in the city following two deaths from police shootings on Saturday. Demonstrations are also scheduled in Cleveland ...
No indictment issued in Sandra Bland case Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund joins MSNBC’s Luke Russert to discuss the importance of gathering enough data to fight police brutality.
“Extremely inappropriate”: The Supreme Court and the sneaky plot to kill affirmative action Holding that diversity can be a compelling interest that a university can [constitutionally] pursue. That was very encouraging, and we thought that ...
President Obama Signs Into Law a Rewrite of No Child Left Behind “The whole purpose behind the original bill was to ensure that there were consistent standards and federal oversight to make sure that states ...
In her Dec. 11 opinion for Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), asks and answers what is this country’s theory of democracy? ...
Supreme Court Weighs Turning Back Clock On Redistricting A case before the Supreme Court this week has the potential to change equal access to political representation as we have known it for at least the ...
