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NWLC In The Press

Bill Cosby Is Guilty. The Women Were Heard.

And now two, Larry Nassar and Bill Cosby, have been found guilty in courts of law. “There has been a change in the world, and more people believe women’s stories today,” said Emily Martin, general...

Hollywood sounds off on Bill Cosby and #MeToo

Fatima Goss Graves, co-chair of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund and president of the National Women's Law Center, called the verdict "powerful" and predicted it may mean "that more survivors will come forward because...

Background of EEOC general counsel nominee raises concerns

The letter is addressed to Senate committee chair Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash. It is signed by The Human Rights Campaign; the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; the National...

School Dress Codes Are Disproportionately Enforced Against Black Girls, Samantha O’Sullivan Writes

That it is our responsibility to ensure our exposed shoulders sweating in 80-degree Washington DC swamp heat are not “distracting” to our male classmates, as not to impede their learning. In schools across DC and...

Black girls are disciplined more harshly in school. Dress codes play a big role.

A new report from the National Women’s Law Center that looks at schools in Washington DC found dress codes to be unnecessarily strict and harmful to female students, and found that black girls in particular...

Are black girls unfairly targeted for dress-code violations at school? You bet they are.

We know from a report last year by the National Women’s Law Center that black girls are twice a likely as all other students to get suspended in schools across the country. And a good...