by Press | Jul 26, 2016 | Newsclips
“Sadly some of these tragic shootings occur in communities that are racially isolated, where blacks and whites live on opposite sides of the tracks, attend segregated schools,” says Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil...
by Press | Jul 19, 2016 | Newsclips
Greenbaum’s organization represented a group of minority Harvard students who tried to intervene in the SFFA case to represent students who they said would be harmed by the race-neutral policies SFFA was pushing. The effort failed, but Greenbaum says, unlike...
by Press | Jul 18, 2016 | Newsclips
“I think it’s making it more difficult for the Department of Education to do its job, which is to make sure that all children are given the opportunity to receive a fair and equitable education,” Clarke told me in an interview. (She spoke...
by Press | Feb 23, 2016 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 23, 2016 – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s (Lawyers’ Committee) President and Executive Director Kristen Clarke issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule to promote equity in Part...
