Civil Rights

THE EQUAL RIGHTS CENTER SUES WALTER REED NATIONAL MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER AND THE NAVY EXCHANGE OVER BARRIERS TO ACCESSIBILITY Veterans and service members with disabilities cannot access [...]

FHA@50 Symposium Highlights the Continued Need for Housing Equity Efforts in D.C. and Nationally Prior to Symposium, Co-sponsoring Organizations Filed Fair Housing Complaint For media inquiries, [...]

FHA@50 Symposium Program The ERC is excited to share with you the program for FHA@50: Renewing Our Commitment to Housing Equity. The Symposium will be held on Friday, April 20, 2018, at the [...]

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act: A Reflection By Melvina Ford, Executive Director The Fair Housing Act is turning 50! While this would seem to be a time for [...]

The Equal Rights Center’s Next Generation Segregation Report Suggests Discrimination is Pushing African American Families Out of DC For media inquiries, contact: Kate Scott, ERC Deputy Director, [...]

By Melvina C. Ford, Executive Director Ninety years after the first celebration of Black History Month in 1926, the historic, unfair and unlawful relationship between race and criminality remains [...]

The Equal Rights Center (ERC) has been awarded two grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP). “The ERC is honored to be a [...]

On a clear September morning twelve years ago, our lives were forever changed. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, some even began to look at other Americans as “the enemy,” based on their religion, [...]

By Grant Beck, ERC Communications Associate It’s a cloudless, sweltering day in August. Washington, D.C., is buzzing. The concrete of the Lincoln Memorial glows in the blistering sunshine. The [...]

By Paul Khouri, ERC Civil Rights intern Growing up in Jordan with multiple disabilities, I learned firsthand the realities of disability issues in developing countries.  When I moved to the [...]