by Press | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
(Trice Edney News Wire, February 25, 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...
by Press | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
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) approved on November 8, 2010 a...
by Press | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
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. We have witnessed a tremendous...
by Press | Sep 24, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
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...
by Press | Aug 4, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
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, it was apparent that the impact of this devastating storm would fall...
by Press | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog, Letters from the Executive Director
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. In 1984 the average White household...
