Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Vanita Gupta Confirmation Marks Turning Point in Fight for Racial Equity
Photo: Wikimedia Commons In a historic bipartisan vote today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Vanita Gupta to the role of associate attorney general, ...
Police Killings of Blacks: “Justice in Policing Act” Must be Passed
Photos: YouTube This past week, Daunte Wright was shot and killed in Minneapolis, and in Chicago police released the footage of the fatal shooting ...
National Groups to Cities: Abandon Racial Discrimination in Housing Ordinances
Photos: Twitter\YouTube The NAACP, the Civil Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ...
Systemic Institutional Racism In American Healthcare is Killing Black Expectant Mothers
Photos: Twitter Although racial health disparities have been widely-recognized throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Black women have shouldered the brunt of systemic inequities in health ...
Proud Boys Held Accountable For Their Racist Attack on Historic Black Church in D.C.
Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube The following commentary regarding the lawsuit filed against the Proud Boys white supremacist group for its attack on a Black church ...
Federal Lawsuit Says Georgia’s Voting Law Is Unconstitutional
Photos: YouTube Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon (shown above) is arrested outside door while Republican Governor Brian Kemp was inside signing voter suppression bill ...
National Groups Denounce Georgia Republicans, Governor Brian Kemp, for Passage of Racist Voter Suppression Bill
Photos: Twitter Georgia Republicans, and Governor Brian Kemp have just passed a blatantly racist law meant to suppress the votes of Black Georgians and ...
Fight to Preserve Drive-Through Voting in Harris County Texas
Photo: YouTube Just three days before the November election, alarm bells rang out as partisan political candidates and advocates attempted to disenfranchise nearly 130,000 ...
Biden’s Win Means A Civil Rights Lawyer Will Lead Civil Rights Enforcement
Photo: Lawyers’s Committee Civil rights lawyer and champion Kristen Clarke will be one of the new faces of the Justice Department. Black voters who ...
Black Neighborhoods, Communities of Color Need Covid-19 Vaccine Now
Photos: YouTube During a speech at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., President Joseph R. Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. has ...
