Monday, November 25, 2013 | news
Just last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied our client’s appeal and Duane Buck is now one step closer to being executed in Texas despite clear racial discrimination at his sentencing hearing. LDF started a photo campaign in which hundreds of people from all around the world have voiced their support for a new, […]
Thursday, September 23, 2010 | news
Tuesday's hearing in Farrakhan demonstrated the depth of the problem of discriminatory felon disenfranchisement laws. As Ryan Haygood from the NAACP LDF, arguing for the plaintiffs, noted at the conclusion of the argument, African Americans make up 23% of Washington State's prison inmates (but just 3.4 percent of the State's population), with prosecutors asking for […]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | news
Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to school at Jimmie Edwards’ Innovative Concept Academy. Edwards, a St. Louis Juvenile Court judge, started the public school in 2009 with the purpose of serving students who might otherwise be lost to […]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | news
A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, describing his No Child Left Behind legislation as potentially racist. “It undermines the core American value of equal opportunity in education embodied in Brown v. Board of Education,” the groups wrote. Their letter […]
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 | news
Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a proposed rule that will severely weaken fair housing efforts, marking a significant step backward in the efforts to fight discrimination in housing and address the lasting impacts of segregation. This action by HUD is part of this administration’s larger attack on civil rights and […]
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 | news
As part of the Trump Administration’s broad attack on fair housing and civil rights, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reportedly plans on announcing a proposed rule rolling back the agency’s use of the disparate impact standard. The Fair Housing Act established the standard, which is a critical tool in challenging discrimination. […]
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | page
H.R. 9495 Is a Threat to Civil Rights and Racial Justice Organizations What You Need to Know About the “Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act (H.R. 9495)” and Why it’s Dangerous On November 21, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill — H.R. 9495 — called the “Stop Terror-Financing and […]
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | case-issue
House v. Hodous Challenging Qualified Immunity On July 28, 2016, Shase Howse was standing on his front porch attempting to unlock his door. He had not committed any crime. A man, who unbeknownst to Mr. Howse was a detective in the Cleveland Police Department, passed by in an unmarked car and repeatedly asked Mr. Howse […]
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 | page
The Power of Language How Woke Went From “Black” to “Bad” By Ishena Robinson Deputy Editorial Director “We must fight ‘the woke’ in our schools. We must fight ‘the woke’ in our businesses. We must fight ‘the woke’ in government agencies,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently declared from the stage at a campaign event. “We […]
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | case-issue
Thurgood Marshall Institute Brief: Summary Admissions for Democratic Merit An Evidence-Based Analysis and Possibilities for Equity By OiYan Poon, PhD Education Equity Fellow Read the Full Brief (Photo by Cornell Watson for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Why Do College Admissions Matter? One of the keys to our success as a nation is our […]
