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President’s Budget Would Eliminate Important “Peacemaker” Agency Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
With the alarming rise in hate incidents and hate crimes nationwide, and the surge in violent tensions sparked by white supremacists and other bigots across the country, the work of Community Relations Service is more critical than ever.
New York City Mayor Plans To Spend $500,000 To Thwart Election Hackers
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to Withdrawal of U.S. Census Bureau Nominee Dr. Thomas Brunell
Brunell “was woefully unqualified for this most important role” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Monday responding to reports that Dr. Thomas...
Trial Opens in Major Federal Voting Rights Lawsuit in Texas
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Filed Lawsuit to Challenge Discriminatory Method of Electing Texas’s High Court Judges CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas and WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, a federal district court will hear arguments in the trial phase of a major...
Maryland Offers $100 Million to Settle State’s HBCU Case
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, one of several legal partners representing the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education, said the financial offer is a step forward but it “does not respond to the detailed remedial plan” at the heart of the order issued by Judge Blake in November.
State Of Maryland Attempts To Remedy Decades Of Mistreatment Harming Historically Black Institutions
Financial Settlement Offer from Governor Hogan “A step in the journey” Towards Desegregation, But Missing Key Details WASHINGTON, D.C. – Months after a federal judge in Maryland issued a landmark remedial order for the State to remedy systemic disparities at its four...
Maryland offers $100 million to settle decade-long case involving historically black schools
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Wednesday offered the state’s historically black colleges and universities up to $100 million to resolve a 12-year-old lawsuit over inequality in public higher education.
Mississippi Moonlighting
For Myesha Braden, Director for the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who is working on similar issues in Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana, Guest’s involvement in the fines and fees collection business is unsettling. It is a reminder that personal financial interests can run counter to the rising political will to reform the criminal justice system throughout the region.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Justice Department Move To Turn Its Back On Poor Defendants
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Thursday responding to revelations that the Trump administration has shuttered the Office for Access to Justice, a...
Roland Martin’s ‘Real State Of Union:’ 3 Good Clapbacks At Trump And SOTU
Kristen Clarke, executive director for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, gave an impassioned response on how the president has managed to completely divide folks across racial and more lines.
NAACP event delivers different view of State of the Union
“In every respect with President Trump — his words, his actions, his policies his appointments — all we’ve seen is the politics of division,” Kristen Clarke said. “I think there is no president who has done more in recent times to divide our country. . . . He has taken our country back decades and we have a tremendous amount of work to do when the chapter is closed to repair our country.
#BlackCollegesMatter: Allies of Maryland’s HBCUs Need To #StayWoke
It is time for everyone who cares about justice to join the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus and other allies of the HBIs to help defeat the State’s attempt to turn back the clock on civil rights protections for HBIs, because, #BlackCollegesMatter.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Senate For Continuing To Stack The Courts With Conservative Judges In Defiance Of Judicial Diversity & Senate Norms
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Tuesday after the Senate broke a century of tradition and confirmed a judicial nominee without having the full and...
Trump Ignores Civil Rights In First State Of The Union Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement Tuesday responding to President Trump’s first State of the Union address: “Once again, President Trump missed an...
At Conference, Students Consider Public Service Careers
Kristen M. Clarke ’97, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, gave the keynote speech at the conference, arguing public service affords an important way to respond to the current political climate.