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VICTORY! Judge Halts Implementation of Ban on Speech about Systemic Racism, Sexism, and Implicit Bias

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December 23, 2020

U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing its executive order that prohibits federal contractors and grantees from conducting workplace diversity trainings or engaging in grant-funded work that explicitly acknowledges and confronts the existence of structural racism and sexism in our society.

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Lambda Legal Condemns Police Shootings, Demands Accountability

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July 7, 2016

We are heartbroken and outraged that again – twice in two days – police have shot and killed Black men. We don’t know all the facts in either case, but driving with a broken tail light or selling CDs in front of a store are not punishable by death.

See Also: Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy
A Divided Supreme Court Leaves Immigrants in Limbo

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June 23, 2016

Today was a bittersweet one for the ideals of diversity and inclusion in this country.

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Supreme Court Upholds Use of Race in U. of Texas Admissions, Lambda Legal Applauds

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June 23, 2016

Today, the Supreme Court, voting 4-3, ruled that University of Texas at Austin (UT)'s admissions process meets the constitutional standard for use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions.

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Federal Court Orders Texas Prison Chief to Remain Defendant in Transgender Woman’s Abuse Case

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March 14, 2016

Today, a U.S. District Court rejected an attempt to remove Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), as a defendant in Zollicoffer v.

See Also: Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct, Passion Star, PREA, Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, Transgender Rights
We Must End Violence Against Sex Workers

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December 17, 2015

Today, on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, sex workers and their allies will rally to “renew our commitment to the on-going struggle for empowerment, visibility, and rights for all sex workers.”

See Also: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, Racism, Sex Work, Transgender Rights
When Policing Makes Schools More Unsafe

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November 5, 2015

Last week, the world watched in horror as a 16-year-old Black girl was thrown around a classroom by police Deputy Ben Fields, a white school resource officer stationed in Spring Valley High School.

See Also: Racial Justice and Low-Income Advocacy, Racism, School-to-Prison Pipeline

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