by Natasha Mundkur | Mar 12, 2021 | Blog
March 13, 2020 is a date that the city of Louisville, Kentucky will (and should) never forget. In a place once known as the Possibility City, cries for justice and police accountability continue to go unheard one year after the deadly police raid that took Breonna...
by Ian Weiner | Mar 5, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Facebook is engaging in online segregation and redlining by using certain protected characteristics – such as race, age and gender – to determine who receives ads for economic opportunities, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law argues in an amicus...
by Natasha Mundkur | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Sarah McSweeney was like any neighbor in Oregon City, Oregon, trying to make it through the pandemic in 2020. She was bright, full of dreams, enjoyed visiting the mall and having her hair done, and loved listening to Kenny Chesney. Mostly, she loved to laugh and make...
by Don Owens | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
(RICHMOND, Va.) – Dominion Energy (NYSE: D), together with the company’s charitable foundation, will contribute $1 million to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national civil rights organization with the mission to secure equal justice for all...
by Ian Weiner | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Placing police in schools makes it more likely for students to be suspended, referred to law enforcement and arrested—and students who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and those with disabilities experience these harms most acutely. Federal funding, which...
by Ian Weiner | Feb 12, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Voters in Gwinnett County, Georgia who speak Spanish as their first language, are receiving key election materials in English even though these citizens have a right to receive voting materials in Spanish because the county is covered by Section 203 of the Voting...