Women-of-Color-Led Running Group Profiled And Mistreated At Marathon By Race Organizers and City of Newton Just weeks before the 2025 Boston Marathon, TrailblazHers Run Co., and its founding members––Abeo Powers, Elizabeth Rock, and Frances Ramirez––have secured a...
Lawyers for Civil Rights has created a toolkit of resources to help families through the process of navigating and responding to racial bullying, including a self-advocacy guide for students, a roadmap for parents, and an email template for reporting. These tools and resources are available here: Click here for the fact-sheet. Click here for the roadmap....
Brookline Public Schools Fail To Protect Black Student From Racial Bullying Classmates Call Black Eighth-Grader a “Cotton Picker” And Re-Enact George Floyd’s Murder Lawyers for Civil Rights (“LCR”) filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of a Black eighth-grader who was subjected to racial bullying at Amos A. Lawrence School in Brookline,...
Melrose Public Schools Fail Again To Protect Black Student From Racial Bullying White Classmates Call Fifth-Grader “Monkey” Repeatedly, Cut Off Her Braided Hair Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against Melrose Public Schools for the ongoing and...
Black Children are Being Illegally Restrained at School Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against the Town of Marblehead and Marblehead Public Schools in Latest School Restraint Case Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) filed a civil rights lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against the Town of Marblehead, Marblehead Public Schools, and several Marblehead school...
Lack of Diversity in Public Employment in Boston and Across the Commonwealth Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) will join Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia and other prominent leaders, including the leadership of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO), in a press conference at City Hall Plaza to call for greater diversity...
Lawsuit Filed Challenging “Corporate Transparency Act” – An Overreaching New Federal Law Threatening Small Businesses with Fines, Imprisonment Lawyers for Civil Rights Joins Black-Owned Businesses and Small Business Development Organizations to Protect Minority Business Owners In a federal lawsuit filed today, Lawyers for Civil Rights,...
BLACK RUNNING CREW FILES FEDERAL DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST BOSTON MARATHON AND NEWTON POLICE Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent Repeat of 2023 Racial Profiling Incident Seeking to forestall a repeat of the racial profiling incident that occurred at the 2023 Boston Marathon, a prominent Black-led running group filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the...
