Letter from the Executive Director
- June 15, 2013 50th Anniversary of Medgar Evers' Assassination Reminds Us of Civil Rights Work That Remains Fighting for social and racial justice is the enduring component of the civil right movements. In the tumultuous 1960s many leaders emerged...
- January 04, 2013 50 Years of Moving America Toward Justice As we celebrate the arrival of 2013, it is imperative that we reflect upon the 50 years of civil rights victories and struggles since the historic year of 1963
- May 09, 2012 EEOC Guidance Critical to Equitable Employment Opportunities for Racial Minorities In late April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
- March 08, 2012 Women, Especially African-Americans, Still Battling Workplace Equity "Minorities, including women, should not lag economically, politically or otherwise. We should not accept it as an inevitable standard ..."
- February 01, 2012 Building a 'Fair Economy' Must Remain a Top Goal "...special barriers confronting our most vulnerable citizens -- low-income and communities of color -- must be addressed and systematically dismantled."
- November 14, 2011 Excluded From Democracy: The Impact of Recent Voting Law Changes The right to vote and choose our leaders is at the heart of what it means to be American and participate in our democracy.
- August 26, 2011 Wake Up America … Dream Not Yet Fully Realized Forty-eight years ago, an iconic speech was delivered in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, a speech enjoining Americans to hope for and create
- August 05, 2011 Ways Funders Can Help Advocates Affirmatively Further Fair Housing Over the last century, residential segregation and isolation of African Americans have been intractable features of housing patterns in the United States and sadly...
- July 21, 2011 Threat to American Dream of Home Ownership Especially Devastating for Seniors, Minority Communities As the economic downturn continues to plague employment, education and every other aspect of American living
- April 14, 2011 Voters Beware: As 2012 Election Begins, Legislative Initiatives Target Vulnerable Voters With the 2012 election less than two years away, voter suppression efforts are already in high gear across the nation.
- April 05, 2011 'We Are One' in the legacy of Dr. King As the nation marks the 43rd anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, it is important for the American public to remember the historic and continuing role of protecting and maintaining workers' rights as a part of civil rights progress. As he stated during a strike in March 1968, "all labor has dignity."
- February 28, 2011 Those Who Don't Learn from History are Destined to Repeat It Our unique heritage as a free society is being threatened by a terrible proposal to delete a fundamental Constitutional protection from the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship Clause, in accordance with § 301
- January 18, 2011 Five Years After Katrina, Settlement Offers Hope to Thousands of Families in The Gulf The Lawyers' Committee, with the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ), scored a major victory for low-income, largely African-American residents of the Gulf Coast region when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- December 02, 2010 Challenges and Opportunities As the year draws to a close, our mission of promoting racial equality and equal opportunity in our nation is paradoxically both threatened and strengthened on many fronts in an ever evolving and changing political and economic climate.
- September 24, 2010 The Cruel Irony of Politics In 2008, most Americans, regardless of race, were proud that in our country Barack Obama could win election to the highest office in the land. His election as President represented a historic milestone in the struggle for racial equality in America. Indeed, there were some who suggested it signaled the dawn of a post racial America.
- August 04, 2010 Our Deep and Continuing Commitment to the Gulf Coast Region The Lawyers’ Committee is proud to release Five Years of Commitment: Providing Legal Assistance in The Gulf Post Katrina. Within days of the Hurricane slamming ashore on August 29, 2005,
- June 07, 2010 The Widening Racial Wealth Divide On May 17th, the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University released a shocking study that found that the wealth gap between White and Black households in America nearly quadrupled between 1984 and 2007.
- May 17, 2010 The Unfulfilled Promise of Brown v. Board of Education Fifty-six years ago this month, on May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. The Court found that racially segregated schools was inherently discriminatory and violated the 14th amendment
- May 03, 2010 The New Jim Crow On May 6th, the Lawyers' Committee proudly hosted author Michele Alexander* for a discussion of her recently published book, The New Jim Crow. This important work argues persuasively that, even as the nation celebrates signs of progress, including the election of Barack Obama, a racial caste system" persists in America.
- March 24, 2010 Historic Enactment of Health Care Reform is Applauded On March 23rd, after the historic vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on March 21st and earlier action by the Senate, President Barack Obama signed into law a sweeping reform of America's health care system.
- March 02, 2010 Join the Lawyers' Committee in Fighting Loan Modification Scammers At the heart of the current economic crisis is a wave of foreclosures across the nation, nearly 4 million in 2009, which has disproportionately affected countless minorities. Millions of distressed homeowners, particularly minorities, have become vulnerable targets to fraudulent
- February 19, 2010 Lawyers' Committee Formed at Height of Civil Rights Movement As we celebrate Black History month, and honor the courage and achievements of so many that endured so much in the ongoing struggle for freedom and racial justice in America, it is appropriate to reflect on the founding of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- January 28, 2010 Lawyers' Committee Weighs in on State of the Union Address Overall, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law applauds key issues addressed by President Barack Obama during his first State of the Union Address. We celebrate his statement that his "administration has a Civil Rights Division that is once again
- October 30, 2009 Still Grappling with Racism "In the Age of Obama" This country has celebrated proud moments in recent history, including the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American President, the confirmation of Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court and Eric H. Holder Jr. as the first Black U.S. Attorney General.
- August 13, 2009 Race and The Summer of 2009 -- Challenges Remain! This week, I joined President Obama and many others at a reception in honor of Justice Sonia Sotomayor who was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on August 8th. Justice Sotomayor is only the third woman and the first Latina on the Court. The addition of this extremely well qualified jurist to the Court is a proud moment for the country.
