Judicial Vacancies in Alabama Pile Up “Just because you have a number of vacancies at once doesn’t mean you automatically do a deal,” said Leslie Proll, [LDF Director of the Washington, D.C. Office]. “There is no ...
From the Front Lines in Ferguson: A Conversation about Policing, Race, and Justice Since the police shooting of of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer, the small municipality has been ground zero in a ...
How and Why You Should Record the Police Broadly speaking, it is always legal to record the police in public places or when they are on-duty, so long as the witness does not interfere with ...
The Truth About Black Twitter “Black Twitter is a force. It’s also not particularly well understood by those who aren’t a part of it. The term is used to describe a large network of black ...
Opinion: Fayette at-large voting discriminates “Not surprisingly, though black voters in 1960 comprised 25 percent of Fayette’s population according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, at-large voting in the county — a structural wall ...
Change is coming to Ferguson “Change is coming to Ferguson. In the next few weeks the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin to negotiate in earnest with the city to restructure the police department, which ...
In voting rights win, bill to cut Georgia early voting is dead The effort’s apparent demise came after feverish organizing by a broad coalition of voting rights, civil rights, good government, and Democratic groups. “Many ...
