Vincent Southerland is interviewed in a MSNBC.com article on the DOJ’s welcome announcement this week that it will expand on President Obama’s efforts to commute more drug sentences. The Justice Department said Thursday that it ...
In Rolling Stone, Leticia Smith-Evans, Interim Director of the Education Practice at LDF, is featured in “Can We Fix the Race Problem in America’s School Discipline?” in which she talks about the DOJ and DOE’s ...
On Monday, Monique Lin-Luse, Special Counsel to the Education Group at LDF, spoke at the annual MLK-day memorial luncheon hosted by the Salt Lake City branch of the NAACP. She spoke about the school-to-prison pipeline and ...
NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy is hosting a debate on the role that segregation in neighborhoods and schools plays in hindering economic and racial equality. The latest installment of The Dream ...
Amid nationwide agitation to increase federal and state minimum wages and successful efforts to “ban the box” that requires job applicants to describe their criminal history, Johnathan Smith, Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, ...
LDF is honored to work towards Dr. King’s dream of racial equality. As we celebrate Dr. King’s birthday, take a look at an op-ed Sherrilyn Ifill penned earlier this year commemorating the 50th Anniversary of ...
The Education and Justice Departments released new guidelines on school discipline yesterday urging schools to ensure that punishments comply with civil rights laws. Sherrilyn Ifill talks with PBS’ Hari Sreenivasan and Chester Finn of the ...
