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National Civil Rights Organization Calls for Facebook to Immediately Remove Militia Group Postings Holding Migrants Hostage
Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued a demand letter to Facebook yesterday calling for the company to remove various videos and content posted by members of the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), an extremist militia group...
Inside the Fight to Get Facebook, Twitter to Reject Racists and Neo-Nazis
An underground network of activists fighting neo-Nazi propaganda in Colorado was instrumental in getting the racist group Identity Evropabounced from major social-media platforms. But following a data leak by Unicorn Riot that firmly...
Human Rights Activists Say These Videos Show Violent Kidnappings—And Facebook Isn’t Taking Them Down
On Saturday, the FBI arrested the leader of a vigilante militia group that has been holding border crossers in southern New Mexico at gunpoint. But as of late Tuesday, videos of such apprehensions conducted by his group, United Constitutional Patriots, are still...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Responds to Supreme Court Argument Regarding 2020 Census
Washington, D.C. – Today the United States Supreme Court heard 90 minutes of argument in one of the current term’s most consequential cases, Department of Commerce v. New York, et al, a challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Sues White House Office of Management and Budget For Payday Lending Documents Records
Lawsuit Seeks to Expose Former CFPB Director’s Ties to Payday Lending Industry Washington, DC (April 22, 2019) – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the White House Office...
Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Urge Congress to Protect Marginalized Communities from Discriminatory Privacy Abuses
Today, 26 civil society organizations sent a letter to Congress calling on legislators to ensure that any federal privacy legislation address the discriminatory impacts of commercial data practices and protect people of color, women, religious minorities, members of...
2020 Census and the Citizenship Question
Today's guest hosts are Charlotte Hancock, Communications Director for Generation Progress, and Brent Cohen, Executive Director of Generation Progress and the VP of the Center for American Progress. They are joined by a pair of guests as they discuss what's at stake...
Trump’s move to end humanitarian program exposes Liberian UCLA student to deportation
After the end of this month, Yatta Kiazolu will be eligible for deportation to a country where she never has lived. The 28-year-old PhD candidate in history at UCLA was born in Botswana to Liberian parents. She has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 and since 2002 has...
Civil and Voting Rights Organizations Oppose Tennessee’s Proposed Restrictions to Voter Registration Drives
Proposed new rules are confusing and vague and would deter groups from helping others register to vote through harsh criminal and civil penalties WASHINGTON, DC – A collective of national civil and voting rights organizations sent a letter to the Tennessee General...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Supports Comprehensive Privacy Bill Prohibiting Data Discrimination
Washington, D.C. - The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law applauds the “Privacy Bill of Rights Act” proposed today by Senator Ed Markey (MA), a comprehensive privacy bill that prioritizes consumer protection and the disparate impacts of commercial data...
Hate Crimes in the Trump Era
Rev. Al Sharpton talks with Frank Figliuzzi and Kristen Clarke about the recent rise of hate crimes towards people of color, and how Trump’s rhetoric has directly influenced it.
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Condemns Racially Charged Church Burnings in Louisiana
Washington, D.C. – Following reports that a suspect has been arrested and charged in connection to three recent church fires in Louisiana, Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyer’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law made the following...
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Opposes Agreement by Texas Tech University Health Science Center to Abandon Race Conscious Admissions
Washington, D.C. – In response to reports that Texas Tech University Health Science Center has agreed to end its consideration of race in selecting candidates for admission to its medical school, Brenda Shum Director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the...
Kristen Clarke on PBS News Hour
There Were Also Serious People at That Hearing on White Nationalism
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism.” Despite the inherent magnitude of that topic, it is one that hasn’t much interested Republicans. That’s easy to understand. President Trump, whom they seem...