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Will Sotomayor Get Her Wish for Unbiased Law?

In The Root (a publication of the Washington Post), LDF Assistant Counsel Vincent Southerland responds to a statement released earlier this week by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor. In it, Justice Sotomayor lent her powerful voice to condemn racially charged remarks made by a federal prosecutor during a criminal trial in Texas. By speaking out, […]

Will Searcy

Will Searcy is the Research and Operations Associate for the Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF. Prior to joining LDF, he served in a variety of roles at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, including Program Manager, Interim Director of the Black Talent Initiative, and Public Policy Fellow focused on criminal justice reform. A […]

Wilbert Rideau, Former Angola Prisoner, Receives Polk Award

At a podium inside the Roosevelt Hotel last week, Wilbert Rideau, 69, stood before an audience of academics and journalists, as he prepared to deliver a speech more than three decades in the making. “After 31 years they invited me back,” Rideau said. “They remembered me.” Thirty-one years ago, while Rideau was serving a life […]

Why Truthful, Inclusive Education Benefits All Students — And How To Make It Happen

The War on Truth Why Truthful, Inclusive Education Benefits All Students — And How To Make It Happen By Ishena Robinson Deputy Editorial Director This is the third installment of an LDF series examining the recent rise of anti-truth laws. You can read the first installment examining the anti-CRT movement and book bans here. The […]

Why the Wal-Mart Case Is So Important to Women, Minorities

EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments March 29 in the biggest sex-discrimination case in history: Dukes v. Wal-Mart. Many pro-worker advocates are worried that the court—which has made a number of extremely conservative rulings in recent years—will decimate the ability of ordinary people to join together in class actions to sue […]

Why State and Federal Voting Rights Legislation Go Hand-in-Hand

The Future of Voting Rights Why State and Federal Voting Rights Legislation Go Hand-in-Hand By Marisa Wright Over the past decade, the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 has suffered two significant blows at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court — and Congress has repeatedly failed to act. Now, state lawmakers are stepping […]

Why race matters in school admissions

Martha L. Minow is the dean of Harvard Law School. Robert C. Post is the dean of Yale Law School. Why did we, friendly rivals as deans of great and sometimes competitive law schools, join forces to write a common brief to the U.S. Supreme Court? Because we both believe that higher education should select the best possible […]