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Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Takes Action to Combat Food Insecurity Across Florida
Washington, D.C. – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is continuing its statewide campaign to combat food insecurity and its impact on low-income students in public schools across Florida. The organization launched its campaign following an incident at...
Equal Pay Day: Let’s Talk About the Racial Pay Gap
By Tamara Cesaretti Although Equal Pay Day focuses on the gender pay gap, the racial pay gap is even more pervasive and impacts both men and women. Women working full-time, year-round are typically paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts....
Nassau County Announces Resolution To 14-Year Fair Housing Act Litigation
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s Administration recently joined with nonprofit housing developer MHANY Management Inc. and New York Communities for Change, Inc. (NYCC) to announce a successful resolution of Fair Housing Act litigation that had been pending...
Groups File Amicus Brief in SCOTUS 2020 Census Citizenship Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Public Counsel, and Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of their clients, the City of San Jose and the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, in Department of...
Following Mounting Pressure from Civil Rights Groups, Trump Administration Orders Extension of DED for Liberians
Boston, MA – Today, President Trump extended the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) program for Liberians for twelve months, through March 31, 2020. This decision comes hours ahead of an emergency hearing in federal court in a lawsuit filed by the national Lawyers’...
Facebook says it will now block white-nationalist, white-separatist posts
Facebook said Wednesday that it will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform.
Facebook extends ban on hate speech to ‘white nationalists’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism.
Civil rights advocates: This is the face of school re-segregation
In case you missed it earlier this week, there was a powerful op-ed in Raleigh’s News & Observer that explained in painful detail how charter schools are abetting and expediting the re-segregation of our public schools.
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP SECURES CRITICAL VICTORY IN EFFORT TO COMBAT WHITE SUPREMACY ON FACEBOOK PLATFORM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Facebook announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Facebook’s new...
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP SECURES CRITICAL VICTORY IN EFFORT TO COMBAT WHITE SUPREMACY ON FACEBOOK PLATFORM
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Facebook announced a new policy banning content that promotes white nationalism and white separatism as impermissible hate speech, following nine months of advocacy from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Facebook’s new...
The Lawyers’ Committee And The Center For Reproductive Rights, Along With Many Others Are Fighting For Reproductive Rights
On November 15, 2018, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury published two final rules that, if enacted, will deprive thousands of women of meaningful access to contraceptive health care services. The Religious Exemption Rule and the Moral...
4 Myths Fueling the Fight Over NYC’s Exclusive High Schools
Year after year, Stuyvesant High has abysmal enrollment rates for black and Latino students. But the debate over admissions reform is brimming with misunderstandings.
Civil Rights Advocates File Lawsuit to End Unconstitutional Jailing of Indigent Individuals in Washington County, OK
BARTLESVILLE, OK – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Latham & Watkins LLP, and Bryan & Terrill, PLLC filed a lawsuit challenging unlawful and unconstitutional jailing of indigent individuals for nonpayment of court-imposed fines and...
Too Poor to Pay: Our Fight to End the Unconstitutional Jailing of Poor Defendants in Washington County, OK
By The Criminal Justice Project When 33-year old Amanda Ackerson Feenstra—a working wife and mother of seven from Claremore, Oklahoma—pleaded guilty to false personation, forgery, identity theft, and conspiracy charges in 2015, the presiding judge ordered her to pay...
Lawsuit alleges county in Oklahoma running debtor’s prison
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A county in northeast Oklahoma routinely jails poor people because they can’t afford to pay court-ordered fees and fines, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Thursday against three judges.