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On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Photo: Associated PressBy Benjamin Todd JealousFifty years after Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, American apartheid is dead. We have Dr.…

Atlantic grantees working for school discipline reform welcomed the federal government's announcement of new school guidelines that discourage the use of zero tolerance school discipline polices. Daniel J. Losen, director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, called the action “huge.” "The guidelines put all…

Momentum in the states is shifting toward the repeal of the death penalty. There are practical reasons for this: The death penalty is expensive, it does not work, and it is administered with a clear racial bias. Repealing it is a matter of justice, public…

Originally posted on September 21, 2011 by Eric Wingerter, Director of New Media, NAACP. Read Troy's Last WordsTonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man.In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis' sentence. More than one million of your petitions…

In a historic ruling on 12 August 2013, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices — which entail temporarily detaining people on the street, questioning them, and possibly also frisking or searching them — unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. This legal victory…

By Caroline Preston. Foundations are not institutions set apart from society and its problems, and grant makers can and should be involved in the fight for a more just and equitable world, Gara LaMarche, president of Atlantic Philanthropies, and Benjamin Jealous, head of the NAACP,…

By Graham MoomawIn an effort to reduce racial disparities in student suspension rates, Henrico County Public Schools announced a partnership Monday with the Legal Aid Justice Center, a Virginia-based advocacy group that offers legal representation and other services to low-income people.Under the agreement, which has…

"Maryland today becomes the 18th state to abolish the death penalty....In doing so it joins every other western country and almost every country on the planet.....But most importantly, today, Maryland pushes America towards abolishing the death penalty and rejoining its rightful place as a global…