by Press | Mar 31, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law released a video Thursday, highlighting the decades of longstanding racial discrimination experienced by Black farmers in the administration of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)...
by Press | Mar 29, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – Today, President Joseph Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, legislation which finally declares lynching a federal hate crime. The legislation is named in honor of Emmett Till, a young Black teenager who was kidnapped and brutally...
by Press | Mar 24, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Black farmers can now defend the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) debt relief program after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed a district court ruling denying them the right to intervene in the Miller v....
by Press | Mar 21, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law released a report on Monday evaluating Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and recommending that she be confirmed by the Senate. In the report, which reflects a thorough review of...
by Press | Mar 18, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) –The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2022 (CROWN Act), which would prohibit racial discrimination based on a person’s hair texture or hairstyle commonly associated with a...
by Press | Mar 10, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, DC) – The Census Bureau announced Thursday that the 2020 census significantly undercounted the country’s Black, Latino, and Indigenous communities. Non-white Hispanics were overcounted slightly. The 2020 census undercounted the country’s population...
