by Press | Feb 22, 2022 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) — Multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific (TFS) has wrongfully profited from cervical cells that were taken from Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge and consent, according to an amicus brief filed Tuesday by the...
by Press | Oct 19, 2021 | Press Releases
OKLAHOMA CITY — A multiracial group of students and educators filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging an Oklahoma classroom censorship bill, HB 1775, which severely restricts public school teachers and students from learning and talking about race and gender in the...
by Press | Feb 11, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Medical bias against at-risk intersectional communities may worsen health care outcomes for these groups who have historically experienced discrimination by medical professionals, a coalition of civil rights groups and legal scholars announced...
by Press | Jan 19, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Two white police officers pulled a Black West Virginian man from his home and beat him for half a minute causing serious and permanent injuries in the early morning of New Year’s Day 2019, according to a lawsuit the Lawyers’ Committee for...
by Press | Jan 4, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – Members of the Proud Boys, a violent all-male group with ties to white nationalism, attacked and vandalized property of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church, on December 12, 2020, because of...
