Monday, June 25, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder The U.S. Supreme Court today permitted Texas to continue using electoral maps that a three-judge lower court had unanimously found were tainted by intentional racial discrimination against Latino and Black voters and diluted minority voting strength. Today’s decision comes exactly five years after the Supreme Court decided Shelby […]
Monday, June 25, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder The U.S. Supreme Court today permitted Texas to continue using electoral maps that a three-judge lower court had unanimously found were tainted by intentional racial discrimination against Latino and Black voters and diluted minority voting strength. Today’s decision comes exactly five years after the Supreme Court decided Shelby […]
Monday, July 4, 2016 | news
Five Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall Most people are aware that Thurgood Marshall was the first black Supreme Court Justice and won the infamous Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which mandated desegregation in schools and struck down the Jim Crow-era “separate but equal” doctrine. There’s much more to the 20th century’s most […]
Monday, January 30, 2017 | news
Read the PDF version of our fact sheet. This week the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States. Here are five things you need to know from Jeff Sessions’ testimony as the Senate prepares to vote on his nomination: 1. Senator Sessions apparently cannot […]
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | page
Policy Advocacy: Economic Justice Your Rights as a Federal Worker The Trump Administration’s attack on the federal workforce impacts thousands of Americans. Here are critical rights and protections you have. The Trump Administration’s attack on the federal workforce threatens the livelihoods of hardworking public servants across the country. The federal workforce, which is nearly 20% […]
Thursday, January 12, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Leaders Submit Letter to Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Washington, DC — Five leading civil rights groups submitted a letter to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee expressing serious concern over the nomination of Dr. Ben Carson to be the United States Secretary of Housing […]
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | news
There’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to split from its local school district. Last week, the nonprofit group EdBuild released an eye-opening report detailing the breadth and effects of […]
Monday, June 26, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By James Cadogan, Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute, and Monique Lin-Luse, Assistant Counsel at LDF There’s a troubling but little-known trend in American public education that, in many cases, threatens to undo efforts to desegregate our nation’s schools: school secession. Simply put, school secession is when a community attempts to split from its local school district. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Fisher v. University of Texas Protecting holistic, race conscious admissions Fisher v. University of Texas – Austin is a U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged the constitutionality of the consideration of race in the University of Texas (UT) undergraduate admissions policy. The case was first filed in 2008 by two white women, Abigail Fisher and […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
When I started school in Virginia in 1968, the public schools in my county were still segregated by race. When our school board finally began complying with Brown vs. Board of Education, a group of parents decided to start an all-white private school. They showed up in our driveway one evening to convince my parents […]
