Jin Hee Lee, LDF’s Deputy Director of Litigation, authored an opinion for CNN.com on the Fisher case before the Supreme Court of the United States this week. “Race matters. That is as true today as ever ...
Supreme Court to hear affirmative action case An affirmative action case returns to the Supreme Court, prompting MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel [including LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson] to discuss the arguments for affirmative ...
Civil Rights Groups Sue Alabama Over Voter ID Law Watch Roland Martin, Scott Douglas from Greater Birmingham Ministries and Bernard Simelton, President of the Alabama NAACP [with Deuel Ross, LDF Assistant Counsel] discuss the lawsuit ...
It’s often said that compromise gives something to everyone but leaves nobody happy. Case in point is the bipartisan effort to replace “No Child Left Behind” with a new, federal education reform called, “Every Child ...
Use of force in city schools merits scrutiny This week’s disturbing video of a South Carolina school police officer body slamming a black girl who refused to leave the classroom exposed the consequence of police ...
S. Carolina case lesson: Police shouldn’t be doing school discipline As long as students of color are profiled, criminalized and pushed out of school, we will continue to be bombarded with reports of “disturbing” incidents. ...
The Philadelphia Tribune cites the high cost of implementing strict photo voter ID and fighting litigation brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in “Voter ID foes stress legal cost in new tactic.” ...
