Education Week’s latest issue commemorates the 60th anniversary of the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In the issue, Leticia Smith-Evans argues in “K-12 Education: Still Separate, Still Unequal” that ...
In a piece for the American Constitution Society’s blog, Vincent Southerland argues that “criminal justice reforms need to be driven by the moral imperative of repairing all that is wrong with the current system.” Reforms ...
In a strongly worded editorial, The Washington Post calls on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act in the wake of the Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County, Alabama vs. Holder. “The ruling ...
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Report and discussed today’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action with Pete Williams. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ensure that the political process ...
Ted Shaw, NAACP LDF’s fifth President and Director-Counsel, has been appointed to lead the Center for Civil Rights at UNC Chapel Hill School of Law. In this position, Ted will succeed the late Julius Chambers, ...
In The Houston Chronicle, Sherrilyn Ifill argues that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court gives even greater influence to wealthy donors in elections, cheapens the act ...
Recently, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that businesses and other organizations can continue to consider credit scores in employment. As Johnathan Smith explains in an interview to Inside Counsel, this practice discriminates against ...
