Black workers embody the new low-wage economy “The reticence [to discuss race in the recent low-wage labor strikes] could be strategic, avoiding black identity politics in order to maintain a class-based approach and woo a ...
Rachel Kleinman, Assistant Counsel in LDF’s Education Group writes an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle this weekend censuring the improper over-reliance on law-enforcement in schools. This practice removes students from supportive educational environments, reinforces stereotypes, and ...
An editorial written by The New York Times this morning issues a blistering attack against the City’s practice of stop-and-arrests in public housing facilities. Recently, the Court granted class-certification in a lawsuit that LDF and ...
Damon Hewitt, Director of Education Practice Group, spoke at a press conference organized by the Student Safety Coalition, a diverse group of educators, parents, students, advocates and legal experts. They implored the next mayor to ...
Natasha M. Korgaonkar, assistant counsel in the Political Participation Group, writes in today’s US News & World Report that “Texas’ Voter ID Laws Are Plain and Simple Discrimination.” Along with two democratic representatives from Texas, ...
LDF alumnus and retired Chief Judge U.W. Clemon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama received the 2013 John H. Pickering Award of Achievement at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting earlier ...
Along with Attorney General Eric Holder, Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. John Lewis, and other civil rights leaders, Sherrilyn Ifill spoke to tens of thousands of Americans at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. ...
