by Press | Mar 4, 2015 | Newsclips
Fifth Circuit Should Uphold Ruling Striking Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law MEDIA CONTACT/INQUIRES: Stacie B. RoysterDirector of Communications and External AffairsLawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law(202) 662-8317/(202) 445-6101...
by Press | Feb 26, 2015 | Newsclips
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Today, 50 years after the march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama, attorney Barbara Arnwine says voting rights are under siege. “There are people who are, in fact, working overtime to try to block the right to vote,” Arnwine...
by Press | Feb 25, 2015 | Newsclips
Bolling v. Sharpe: 60th Anniversary Panel Discussion Black History Month On the same day In May 1954, the Supreme Court issued its rulings on Bolling v. Sharpe and the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In Bolling v. Sharpe, the Court...
by Press | Feb 13, 2015 | Newsclips
As America celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), millions of eyes are on the hard-fought battle that was finally won in 1965. Forums, documentaries, and movies, such as “Selma”, are permeating the airwaves with the historic events...
by Press | Jan 22, 2015 | Newsclips
Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. The names of unarmed black men killed by police in recent years are etched in the consciousness of people in the U.S. who might have believed that Eric Holder, the first ever African-American attorney general hired by the...
by Press | Jan 8, 2015 | Newsclips
Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project brings before the Court for the third time in three years the question whether disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The previous two times the...
