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Jay-Z’s Father’s Day Gesture Brings Focus to Prisons, Poverty and the Price of Freedom

“What has been demonstrated here is that usually only one factor determines whether a defendant stays in jail before he comes to trial. That...

Back to the Future: Civil Rights, Wade Henderson, and the Next Generation

" final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order...

In a Victory for Voting Rights, Texas ID Law Struck Down a Fifth Time

“No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws...

National Urban League Mourns the Loss of Civil Rights Champion Roger Wilkins

  “We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.” – Roger Wilkins For...

Supreme Court Nominee Gorsuch Has Not Met the Civil Rights Standard to Earn Our Support

  “Overall, we conclude that there is an inadequate record to determine if Judge Gorsuch has a commitment to protecting and safeguarding civil rights and,...

American Health Care Act: Un-American, Un-Healthy, and Un-Caring

“All the progress that we’ve made in controlling costs and improving how health care is delivered, progress that’s helped hold growth in the price...

Viola Davis: A Historic Talent Earns a Historic Distinction

“In my mind I see a line, and over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their...

Repeat Offense: Private Prisons Resurrection Represents Pay-To-Play

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist, “The House of the Dead,”...

Claims of “Fake News” are an insult to an institution that has risked lives to advance liberty

"The brutality with which officials would have quelled the black individual became impotent when it could not be pursued with stealth and remain unobserved....

American Democracy Depends Upon Full Investigation of Foreign Influence

Foreign powers also will not be idle spectators. They will interpose, the confusion will increase, and dissolution of the Union ensue. – Alexander Hamilton,...

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