Honor Selma by Restoring the Voting Rights Act “Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, was simply wrong when he recently suggested the Voting Rights Act should not be updated because “more minorities are already ...
After Mass Arrests During Freddie Gray Protests, Baltimore Public Defender To Challenge ‘Excessive’ Bail Amounts Monique Dixon, senior policy counsel for criminal justice at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), said that arrests during the ...
Janai Nelson: “There are many ways to approach this. We must take this opportunity and not squander it. We need to be asking ourselves- How can we transform law enforcement, how can we elevate expectations ...
White House, Republicans Sidestep Many Police Reform Ideas “…President Barack Obama is right when he reminds us that policing, like education, is a function of state and local government. And it’s true that his options ...
Obama’s Difficult Legacy on Race “There is more that the administration can be doing to ensure proper training, supervision, and transparency at the local level through the funding structure and civil rights compliance structure that ...
Searching for solutions in Baltimore Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NPR’s Michele Norris , National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post’s Michael Gerson and economist Julianne Malveaux talk about the crisis in Baltimore ...
From CharlieRose.com, “A discussion about unrest in Baltimore with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.”
