President Donald Trump has rolled back a Barack Obama-era housing rule intended to halt racial segregation and eliminate racial disparities in American suburbs. Trump announced on July 29 that he officially eliminated the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule that…
In the midst of a global pandemic, The Equity Alliance, in partnership with Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, filed a lawsuit Monday, May 4 on behalf of two qualified voters and organizations…
In a letter dated February 4, and sent to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Maine) said comprehensive demographic data on people tested or treated for the virus that causes…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – A coalition of racial justice and civil rights organizations, based in Charlottesville, Va., has launched a campaign to force Twitter to respond to widespread concerns that Twitter allows White supremacists to flourish on its platform. The Change the…
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the NAACP; pro bono firm Hogan Lovells US LLP; the Memphis-based firm Burch, Porter, & Johnson PLLC; Bromberg Law LLC; and community practitioner Daniel Ayoade Yoon have filed a suit challenging Tennessee’s…
In Georgia, close to three times the number of people who voted early during the last midterm election have voted early. The numbers went up over the first week of early voting in a state featuring one of the biggest…
