by Press | Mar 18, 2020 | Newsclips
(Blavity) Maryland lawmakers have passed a funding bill, worth more than a half-billion dollars, for the state’s four HBCUs. The legislation is in efforts to force federal courts to settle a lawsuit that alleges the state of Maryland was systematically...
by Press | Mar 16, 2020 | Newsclips
(Washington Post) The Maryland General Assembly has approved legislation providing $580 million over 10 years to the state’s four historically black colleges and universities, a major step toward ending a 13-year-old lawsuit over inequitable funding of the...
by Press | Dec 9, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and pro bono counsel, Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP, and Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, filed a petition in State District Court of Travis County, Texas to intervene in a...
by Press | Nov 25, 2019 | Press Releases
Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law joined the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights and other civil right and racial justice groups to urge the Senate to pass the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education...
