NEW YORK, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The "State and Local Funding Flexibility Act" (H.R. 2445), which was approved yesterday on a party-line vote of the House Education and Workforce Committee, threatens to reverse decades of progress in advancing civil rights and equal access to education for our nation's children. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, as the organization that argued and won the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, vehemently opposes this bill. Since Brown, Congress has worked to open and preserve access to equal education for all students. In 1965, with the passing of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Congress recognized the need to provide additional funds to states and school districts that served disadvantaged students, many of...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) weighs the evidence on the deadly impact of menthol cigarettes, three African American organizations have spoken out against a potential ban, urging the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to consider the negative implications of a ban and to discount any unsubstantiated evidence on menthol. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) have expressed concerns that evidence to support a ban is inconclusive and a dangerous "black market" for menthol products could develop due to the ban. Legacy, who was an early proponent of a menthol ban, respectfully disagrees. We join the N...
NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Scholarship Programs announced today that they are accepting applications for the 2011-2012 academic year. Applications and answers to frequently asked questions regarding the scholarship programs and the application process can be found at www.naacpldf.org/scholarships. As part of a general modernizing process, both scholarship programs--The Herbert Lehman Education Fund and the Earl Warren Legal Training Program-- have newly redesigned applications. LDF has also launched "The Young Scholars Video Diaries" webpage so that visitors can learn first hand of five 2010 scholarship recipients' experiences and follow them throughout the course of their academic journeys.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the United States Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued policy guidance that provides greater clarity and encouragement to school districts and higher education institutions as they seek to explore available options for promoting and maintaining meaningful diversity. Released in two parts --one for K- 12 school districts and the other for higher education institutions - - the guidance provides concrete examples of programs that comply with the constitutional mandates in the Supreme Court's decisions in two recent cases, Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007). Significantly, as the new guidance recognizes, a majority of the Supreme Court Ju...
That is not legal," New York State Senator Eric Adams told the AmNews. "The law doesn't allow for an unqualified person [whoj gets a buddy. In these tough economic times, why are we looking to hire two people to fill one vacancy? Attorney Gloria Brown Marshall, JD/MA, is the author of "Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present," The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context" and "The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts." She is an associate professor of constitutional law at John Jay College (CUNY), where she teaches constitutional law, race and the law, and evidence. She is also a member of the faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY and the Gender Studies program faculty of John Jay College. Formerly a civil rights attorney, she litigated civil rights and public law c...
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WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last night the Senate passed S. 1789, The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, concerning the racially discriminatory disparity in the treatment of the crack and powder forms of cocaine. Although the Senate passed legislation concerning the crack/powder sentencing disparity, it refused to completely eliminate that unjustified disparity. The Senate's failure is deeply troubling. If left uncorrected, the Senate's action would mean that racial discrimination will persist. There is no dispute that the crack/cocaine disparity must be eliminated. No scientific or criminological justification exists for treating the two forms of the drug differently. Second, the sentencing disparity has had a devastating, racially discriminatory impact on African America...
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an injunction protecting funds from the Road Home Program so that displaced homeowners can have an opportunity to show that Louisiana and HUD have distributed recovery funds in a discriminatory manner. The Road Home program is an $11 billion federally-funded program established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA), now the Office of Community Development, to assist residents affected by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina to rebuild and return to their homes. HUD is responsible for overseeing Louisiana's use of federal disaster recovery funding and assuring that the funds are used to promote equal housing opport...
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