On Wednesday, February 20, 2013, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, and Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, hosted an engaging conversation with an invited group of friends and supporters to discuss Shelby County, ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s review of Shelby County v. Holder, a case challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has launched an oral history project in ...
Don’t let Sandy become another Katrina: Opinion The first allocations of the $50.5 billion in federal Hurricane Sandy relief aid, approved late last month, are headed the Northeast’s way. The announcements were welcome news to ...
Dr. Death. It was a fitting nickname for the tall gentleman with a spectral complexion who haunted the corridors of the Dallas County Courthouse in the 1980s. Summoned by prosecutors to testify in more than 100 capital ...
In January 2009, when Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos took office, she lost no time in making good on her campaign promise to restore that department’s integrity, left in tatters by her disgraced immediate predecessor. Among ...
Once again, the most avid supporters of capital punishment in Texas should be pleased that a scheduled execution has been stopped, at least temporarily. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of Duane Buck, ...
After granting a stay of execution to Duane Buck just hours before he was to be put to death in Texas on Thursday, the Supreme Court must now review the case or, at the very least, order ...
