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By Stephanie Gonzalez Palumbo, Immigrant Rights Program Manager In a primetime address last night, President Obama announced the executive action that he and his administration will take in lieu [...]

By Sasha Robinson, ERC Intern I was born white and naive, raised ignorant to the benefits I gained from being white and the issues plaguing minority children: gang violence, drug abuse, poor [...]

By Sasha Robinson, ERC Intern As we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—one of this century’s most important legislative measures for gender [...]

The 50th anniversary of the historic passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 presents an opportunity for reflection on how far America has truly come in the long march toward equality. Our nation [...]

By Melvina Ford I have apparently reached that age when you start to have friends with children in college or on their way there. Perhaps that’s why Iappa’ve started paying more attention to who [...]

Today, the White House announced that President Obama will sign an executive order that extends employment protections for LGBT individuals who work for federal contractors. The move comes months [...]

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Senate’s vote for cloture on the Civil Rights Act or 1964, ending a filibuster by the bill’s opponents that had lasted since March 30, 1964, the day [...]

On Tuesday, the Equal Rights Center (ERC) co-hosted the 13th Annual D.C. Fair Housing Symposium in conjunction with the D.C. Office of Human Rights, the D.C. Department of Housing and Community [...]

  By Melvina Ford, Executive Director of the Equal Rights Center As the stories of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rant against African Americans attending his team’s [...]

By Snehee Khandeshi, ERC Fair Housing Program Coordinator Earlier this week, Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events took place across the globe to memorialize the victims of hate crimes [...]