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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 […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | news
Today, the Houston Chronicle published an editorial calling on the Harris County District Attorney and U.S. Senator John Cornyn to show leadership and demand a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF client, Duane Buck. Read about it here.
Tuesday, September 7, 2021 | case-issue
Houston Area Urban League V. Abbott Challenging Texas Restrictive Voting Law Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) v. Abbott is a lawsuit challenging S.B. 1, a Texas law that greatly restricts access to voting. S.B. 1 includes several suppressive voting provisions that will make it much harder for Texans to vote and disenfranchise some altogether, particularly […]
Sunday, July 28, 2013 | case-update
In keeping with the bipartisan support that has characterized each reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, including the most recent in 2006, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice has scheduled a hearing, “The Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court’s Decision in Shelby County,” for Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will take place […]
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | news
The question of whether the rights of black voters are violated by the practice of at-large voting for judges in Terrebonne Parish is now fully in the hands of a federal judge, whose verdict is expected in August. Friday afternoon more than one hundred black men and women from Terrebonne Parish packed a third-floor courtroom […]
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 | news
Amid nationwide agitation to increase federal and state minimum wages and successful efforts to “ban the box” that requires job applicants to describe their criminal history, Johnathan Smith, Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, and Madeline Neighly of National Employment Law Project pen an op-ed for msnbc.com. Honor Dr. King by helping people get work By […]
