Thurgood Marshall
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 ...
LDF To Courts: Stop Tonight’s Planned Execution of Brandon Bernard by Trump Administration
Photo: YouTube The following commentary, written by NAACP-LDF president Sherrilyn Ifill, is a plea for the life of Brandon Bernard—who is set to be ...
Rigged: Ending Racial Bias in Jury Selection
Timothy Foster During the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The act guaranteed all citizens, particularly African Americans, equal treatment ...
Attacks Against Debo Adegbile And NAACP LDF Are Unfair
Debo Adegbile [Commentary] Debo Adegbile is an excellent choice to be the next Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. He is eminently qualified. For ...
Nuclear Option Clears Path for African American Judge Robert L. Wilkins, And Two Women
Judge Wilkins Even before President Barack Obama entered the White House, Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio personality, hoped the President would fail. Like clockwork, ...
Judge Scheindlin’s Stop-and-Frisk Ruling Means Black And Latino Officers Also Racially Targeting
Bloomberg, shown with Commissioner Kelly, was dealt a blow by Scheindlin ruling [Pardon My Rant] It was 12:10pm on a Tuesday. The date was ...
Blacks, Gays, and Justice
What’s becoming of Dr. King’s dream? [LAW OF THE LAND] On his long march for voting rights Dr. Martin Luther King said, “the arc ...