100-Years Later, Tulsa’s Racist Mob Violence Recalls a Violent Past and Present
(Washington, DC) – This week marks 100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, in which more than 35 square blocks of a Black community were looted and burned by a white mob in Oklahoma. Some estimate that more than 300 Black residents were killed and 1,000 homes and...
Lawyers’ Committee Welcomes Five New Board Members, Appoints Current Member to Executive Committee
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced today that Deepak Gupta of the public interest law firm Gupta Wessler, Marilyn McClure-Demers of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Roscoe Jones Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher...
Settlement Agreement: Black NC Community Members’ Right to Protest Protected in Federal Court
(Raleigh N.C.) – United States District Court Judge Catherine Eagles entered a consent order and judgment today designed to protect the First Amendment rights of peaceful protestors to protest in front of the Alamance County courthouse, lawyers for the plaintiffs have...
Craig Newmark Philanthropies Partners With National Lawyers’ Committee to Combat Voter Misinformation
(Washington, D.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law announced today that it has received a $500,000 grant from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to support our work to strengthen democracy for all, specifically our work to fight online misinformation and...Sign Up Today!
