March 27, 2013
The “Scottsboro Boys,” 1931 (Donated by Corbis) (BE042030)
March 25, 2013
EJI is proud to announce the launch of our new online timeline, A History of Racial Injustice. The timeline provides expanded content to complement...
March 14, 2013
Photo by Jacob Holdt
Today there is widespread recognition that the goal of providing counsel to the nation's poor, stated by the United States...
March 6, 2013
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on February 27, 2013, ordered a new trial for Alabama death row inmate Ricky Adkins...
March 4, 2013
EJI will honor former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Elaine Jones and Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., co-founders...
February 28, 2013
U.S. Marshals escort six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1960
(AP...
February 26, 2013
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, issued a scathing condemnation of a federal prosecutor's "...
February 20, 2013
Teera Baumbach-Majeski. Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle / special to news-press.com
An intellectually disabled teenage girl in Florida faced up to 15...
January 31, 2013
Enslaved people who have just escaped from a Virginia plantation in 1862. (Library of Congress)
January 23, 2013
Rocrast Mack (pictured with his son) was beaten to death by prison guards on August 4, 2010.
The Justice Department announced last week that...
