Saturday, July 16, 2022 | news
Despite her exceptional and exemplary journalism credentials and having received a faculty recommendation of tenure for the Knight Foundation-endowed Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was effectively and discriminatorily denied tenure in 2021 by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees. Although the Board ultimately reversed its initial decision, one that was loudly condemned on UNC’s campus and across the […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 | news
Today, the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted 9-4 to grant award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure in connection with her appointment as the Knight Foundation Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism. The vote comes after unprecedented action by the Board to initially […]
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | news
Today, award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones announced that she has declined an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In her first extensive comments since the UNC Board of Trustees voted on her tenure, Ms. Hannah-Jones released the following statement: “I have loved the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Nicole Austin-Hillery is the President and CEO of the CBC Foundation. She previously served as the U.S. Program Executive Director for Human Rights Watch, leading efforts to end violations in the abusive US immigration system, tackle race discrimination and other rights problems with the domestic criminal justice system, and advocate for national security policies informed […]
Saturday, May 12, 2012 | news
In the early 1960s Nicholas Katzenbach was part of the cadre of talented lawyers from the Justice Department who worked to ensure that the national promise of equality too long ignored was finally kept. In those years, Katzenbach, as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s deputy and later as Attorney General himself, led the Department’s efforts […]
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | page
Monday, September 15, 2014 | news
Education and Civil Rights Groups Call for an End to Militarization of K-12 School Police UPDATE: After intense public pressure spurred by our letter to the Defense Logistics Agency, schools districts have begun returning surplus military weapons. Read reports from around the country. Lisa Gartner, Pinellas schools returning M-16 assault rifles, Tampa Bay Times […]
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | news
The Lawyers Division of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) New York Region held its 21st annual Edward Brodsky Legal Conference, on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at the Times Center in New York City. Each year, the Edward Brodsky Legal Conference brings together distinguished academics, journalists and policy experts to debate timely legal issues. This year’s theme was “The 50th Anniversary of […]
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 | news
New York, NY—Twelve legislative seats in the New York State Assembly and State Senate are currently vacant, depriving approximately 1.8 million New Yorkers, over 800,000 of whom are people of color, of their fundamental right to representation. Today, the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting rights advocates, urged […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | news
The New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates,[1] issues this statement in support of New York State ballot proposals 1, 3 and 4. In doing so, we recognize the critical opportunity these measures present in advancing the collective interests of BIPOC[2] community members and stakeholders. We support ballot […]
