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Legal leaders discuss challenges of Trump Presidency at NAACP convention panel

Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, said her organization is pushing to educate people about the impact of Republican plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Once people know what the healthcare...

Groups Call on Civil-Rights Official to Reject ’90 Percent’ Statement on Campus-Rape Cases

In the letter the National Women’s Law Center, joined by other organizations, wrote that Ms. Jackson’s apology did not go far enough and that she should disavow the comments as promoting inaccurate information on campus rape....

Why pro-life doctors want the First Amendment to protect their right to lie to patients

And, there is legal precedent for the government to regulate commercial and professional speech in a way they can’t with other forms of speech, Kelli Garcia, senior counsel with the National Women’s Law Center, said. Garcia...

San Francisco Wants to Eliminate the Pay Gap for Women in This Generation. But Will It Work?

Equal pay advocates have largely praised the law, saying that while it won't erase the wage gap, it's better than nothing. The law "makes it less likely that inequities earlier in your career shape your...

How Fatima Goss Graves Negotiates Long Term Success For Equal Pay

What do you do when you face failure? Do you retreat, freeze, or figure out how to be stronger by trying again? Fatima Goss Graves knows something about failure, and how a loss can fuel a future win....

Experts explain why there may be no legal recourse for the women in R Kelly’s alleged cult

“There’s this coercive control at play here,” Maya Raghu, director of workplace equality at the National Women’s Law Center, said in a Tuesday phone interview. “This is frequently an issue in domestic violence cases —...