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Rights Groups Sue Louisiana over Voting Rights Violations

State Agencies Failed to Register Minority and Low-Income Voters under National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) (New Orleans, LA) –Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF), Project Vote, and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of the state conference of the NAACP and several private individuals, alleging that […]

Rights groups ask court to join prisoner-redistricting suit

NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) – Three civil-rights organizations have requested permission to join as defendants in a lawsuit brought by state senators and citizens who wish to block a law changing the way New York’s prisoners are counted for census purposes. The complaint, filed last month in New York Supreme Court in Albany, targets […]

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Richard Rothstein in The Washington Post: Brown’s Promise Unattainable Without Desegregation of Neighborhoods

Sixty-three years ago on Wednesday, the Supreme Court prohibited school segregation. In the South, Brown v. Board of Education was enforced slowly and fitfully for two decades; then progress ground to a halt. Nationwide, black students are now less likely to attend schools with whites than they were half a century ago. Was Brown a failure? Not if we […]

Richard Rothstein in Op-Ed for The Guardian: De Facto Segregation is Largely a Myth

Residential segregation exacerbates many national problems. In education, a black-white achievement gap persists largely because the poorest pupils are concentrated in racially homogenous schools where instruction is overwhelmed by children’s out-of-school challenges; these schools are segregated because their neighborhoods are segregated. Growing inequality partly reflects a racial wealth gap. Middle-class white Americans are more likely […]

Richard Rothstein

Richard Rothstein; Research Associate and Author  Richard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, where his recent work has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation. In addition to his duties at the Economic Policy Institute, he is a Senior Fellow at the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He […]

Ria Tabacco Mar Weighs in on Criminal Background Checks Policy

This week, Ria Tabacco Mar testified at a public hearing before the DC Council’s Committee on Economic Development, urging the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to adopt fairer hiring practices. WMATA unfairly uses criminal background information to exclude many qualified job applicants based on prior conduct that is unrelated to the job or occurred long ago. […]

Ria Tabacco Mar Speaks in Support of NYC Bill to End Credit Checks in Employment

LDF Assistant Counsel Ria Tabacco Mar appeared in front of New York’s City Hall in support of the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which would ban the use of credit checks in employment.  “Poor credit is more often the result of hardships, not personal irresponsibility, and blacks are more likely to face the kind of […]

Ria Tabacco Mar Discusses Efforts to End Unfair Background Checks in Employment

Ria Tabacco Mar talks to American Urban Radio Network about our work ending unfair background checks. On behalf of our client, Beverly Harrison — a 58-year-old grandmother unfairly denied a job as a school crossing guard based on a mistake from forty years ago — we recently filed a motion to defend the EEOC’s legal guidance […]

Ria Mar Testimony