Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | page
How Shelby County v. Holder Broke Democracy In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt its greatest blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in its Shelby County v. Holder decision that gutted essential protections of the VRA. Shelby ushered in a wave of discriminatory voting and redistricting laws. From voter suppression to discriminatory redistricting, […]
Thursday, July 7, 2022 | page
How Racism in the Courtroom Produces Wrongful Convictions and Mass Incarceration By Ella Wiley Senior Communications Associate In recent years, police violence and militarization have been under a microscope. For many Americans, it is now frighteningly clear that police consider Black people suspects when sitting in their backyards, failing to signal, and simply going about […]
Monday, November 8, 2021 | page
Five Times Police Used Qualified Immunity to Get Away with Misconduct and Violence By John Guzman Senior Communications Strategist Throughout the United States, law enforcement officers have stolen money and valuables, shot children, attempted to harm family pets, killed vulnerable people, and, worst of all, they have gotten away with it — all because of […]
Friday, October 13, 2023 | page
Discriminatory Redistricting’s Sordid Roots How South Carolina Attempted to “Bleach” Charleston and the Attorneys Fighting to Stop It — All the Way to the Supreme Court By Keecee DeVenny Senior Digital Media Strategist In Charleston, South Carolina, colorful low country cottages and southern plantation homes stand tall and proud on palm tree-lined cobblestone streets. The […]
Thursday, May 12, 2022 | page
Prepared to Vote How Georgians Can Prepare to Vote, Even Amid Rising Challenges By Olamide Adetunji Attorney, Voting Rights Defender and Prepared to Vote Projects This election season, Georgia voters are casting their ballots with a new, highly suppressive voting law in place. This law, S.B. 202, was passed by the state’s legislature in a […]
Thursday, May 15, 2025 | page
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | page
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025 | case-issue
Demonstrators hold signs during a stop on former HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s Listening Tour in Miami, Fl. on Apr. 12, 2017. (Photo via Getty Images) Thurgood Marshall Institute Brief Barred from Housing The Discriminatory Impacts of Criminal History Background Restrictions in Tenant Screening Brief Summary By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD TMI Senior Researcher and Statistician Read […]
Monday, March 31, 2025 | case-issue
Photo via Shutterstock.com Thurgood Marshall Institute Report Black Educators as Essential Workers for Educational Equity Report Summary By Kesha Moore, PhD TMI Research Manager Download the Report Read the Full Report Why We Conducted this Report Understanding how Black educators create effective learning environments for Black students is key to narrowing the opportunity gap that […]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | news
KUHF, an NPR affiliate radio station in Houston, Texas, reported on the federal investigation into the Bryan Independent School District’s policy of citing criminal misdemeanors for normative childlike behavior. Excerpt from the show’s transcript: When De’angelo Rollins started sixth grade here at Stephen F. Austin, he was excited. It’s a middle school in Bryan about […]
