Thursday, September 10, 2015 | news
The Atlanta Journal Constitution profiles “What’s at Stake in Fayette Voting Rights Fight.” In the piece, the AJC looks ahead to the week of November 16 when “U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. will revisit a case looking at how Fayette County elects its leaders. He’ll hear arguments for and against at-large voting. The NAACP Legal Defense […]
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | news
Today, national civil rights leaders urged the Senate HELP Committee to review Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos’ alarming past with respect to civil rights and hold her feet to the fire on critical issues of civil rights that are a central function of the U.S. Department of Education. A recording of today’s event is […]
Saturday, December 14, 2013 | news
HARTFORD – The Center for Children’s Advocacy, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) and attorney Wesley Horton today signed another one year agreement with the Connecticut State Department of Education and the City of Hartford in Sheff v. O’Neill, Connecticut’s groundbreaking educational equity case. The agreement […]
Thursday, February 26, 2015 | case-update
HARTFORD, Conn. — A Superior Court judge has approved an agreement mandating the state of Connecticut and city of Hartford implement new initiatives aimed at eradicating the racial and ethnic segregation faced by Hartford students. The plan, which stems from the landmark Connecticut school desegregation case Sheff v. O’Neill, builds upon previous agreements that resulted in […]
Friday, September 4, 2020 | news
The Fortune Society, Inc. (“Fortune”), a nonprofit community-based organization that supports successful community reentry for people with prior criminal justice involvement, and Macy’s, Inc. (“Macy’s”), have reached an agreement in The Fortune Society, Inc. v. Macy’s, Inc., a case brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Chance Act […]
Friday, January 10, 2020 | news
On behalf of Elizabeth Horton Sheff and other Black, Latinx, and white families, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Center for Children’s Advocacy, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, and Horton, Dowd, Bartschi & Levesque, PC have reached a new landmark agreement in Sheff […]
Thursday, December 6, 2012 | news
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that the Foothill Ranch-based Wet Seal illegally discriminated against a former store manager after one of the company’s executives complained about too many black employees at a store in Pennsylvania, according to a New York Times report and an attorney involved in the case. Citing evidence of racial discrimination, the […]
Thursday, August 14, 2014 | news
Last night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Sherrilyn Ifill lambasted Missouri officials for their silence, absence, and lack of political leadership in Ferguson. Forty minutes later, Gov. Jay Nixon announced he would not go to the state fair and instead travel to Ferguson today.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | news
After last night’s Ferguson City Council hearing, during which Ferguson’s mayor and city council members made all-too-familiar and unverified claims that implementation of its proposed police and court reform consent decree would be too costly, the city voted to reject the consent decree and attach new, unilateral conditions to an agreement it had already spent […]
Monday, March 12, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. African-American Civil Rights Leaders Strongly Urge Attorney General Sessions to Include Civil Rights in DOJ’s Priorities African-American civil rights leaders sent a joint letter strongly urging U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to alter the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) historic commitment to the civil rights laws that Congress tasked it […]
