Insights on AFS Center for Justice

Please join the ArentFox Schiff Center for Racial Equity as we commemorate the 59th Anniversary of The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In the early morning of July 6, Sonya Massey called the police for assistance. Tragically, one of the responding officers shot and killed her. The officer involved has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct. Despite this official response, the heartbreaking reality remains: another innocent Black person has lost their life at the hands of the police, this time in their own home.

Please join Senator Doug Jones, ArentFox Schiff Counsel and author of Bending Toward Justice*, and the ArentFox Schiff Center for Racial Equity, on September 21, for a compelling inside perspective on the civil rights history of the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing.

On Monday, we remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his pursuit of what the law and our Constitution promised to all: “equal justice under law.”  

Today our country is reeling from the horrific events in Uvalde, Texas, and our thoughts are with the families and that community dealing first-hand with unimaginable pain and grief. This shooting in Texas, on the heels of the tragedy in Buffalo. Today also marks two years since the death of George

On behalf of The AFS Center for Racial Equity, we strongly condemn the brutal mass murder at a supermarket in Buffalo. We stand with the Black community and express our sympathy and support to our colleagues and friends.

Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the firm has earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index and the distinction as a 2022 “Best Place to Work for LGTBQ+ Equality.”

On January 13, Senator Doug Jones formally introduced the President’s nominees to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs at a hearing to confirm members of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.

The Arent Fox Center for Racial Equality is pleased to announce a partnership with Howard University School of Law’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center to produce policy recommendations and research papers addressing institutionalized racism in the United States.

Over the past few weeks, this country has watched and relived the traumatic, public death of George Floyd. Today’s much-anticipated verdict – holding Derek Chauvin guilty on all charges – was a step towards healing.

On March 22, the Chicago suburb of Evanston became the first municipality in the Country to approve a government reparations program for eligible Black residents of the City.

The shooting of eight people in the Atlanta area earlier this week – including six women of Asian descent – requires all of us to pause and focus on the alarming rise in hate crimes against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Partner Eva Pulliam recently spoke with Above the Law’s The Jabot podcast about Arent Fox’s Center for Racial Equality.

Arent Fox is announcing the launch of The Center for Racial Equality, an organization dedicated to advancing racial justice by using legal, policy, and advocacy tools to help create a more fair and equitable society.

Representative John Lewis, the Civil Rights activist committed to non-violent protest, champion of racial equality, and the “conscience of Congress” died on July 17. He was 80.

The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery and the weaponization of race against Chris Cooper are heartbreaking reminders that many Americans, including colleagues at Arent Fox, have to carry with them every day the added burden of being a person of color in our country.