by Press | Mar 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – On the 56-year mark of Alabama’s brutal Bloody Sunday attack on Black communities, their allies, and democracy itself, President Joe Biden released recorded remarks this morning calling for Senate passage of the national Lawyers’...
by Press | Feb 27, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The US House of Representatives passed the American Rescue Plan, H.R.1319, today, a key step towards delivering to Black Americans and other communities of color who have been hit hardest by the pandemic the federal assistance they’ve long...
by Press | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog, Press Releases
Placing police in schools makes it more likely for students to be suspended, referred to law enforcement and arrested—and students who are Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ and those with disabilities experience these harms most acutely. Federal funding, which...
by Press | Jan 26, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President Joseph R. Biden is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday on what the White House is calling his racial equity agenda. Executive actions will address housing, voting and police practices, criminal justice, health care, education...
by Press | Jan 7, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – President-elect Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Kristen Clarke (bio), the president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to be the nation’s nineteenth Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights....
