by Don Owens | 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...
by Press | Nov 16, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – According to the FBI’s newly released 2019 Uniform Crime Reporting hate crimes data (UCR), not only are hate crimes in the United States increasing, but hundreds of law enforcement agencies nationwide failed to participate in the...
by Press | Oct 28, 2020 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, signed by President Barack Obama 11 years ago this month, was a milestone hate crime law which increased the jurisdiction of the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate...
by Don Owens | Aug 28, 2020 | Blog
“White supremacy and police violence inflict horror on the psyche of our nation that Black people often can’t escape. Whether walking away from the police in Wisconsin, sleeping in our homes in Louisville, or entertaining our...
by Don Owens | Aug 11, 2020 | Press Releases
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sent a letter on Monday to the Wilmington, N.C. Civil Service Commission in North Carolina, concerning former Officer James B. Gilmore, whose employment was terminated after being captured on video making racist remarks...