by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jul 7, 2020 | Human Rights
Last Wednesday, Justice Revival and Union Theological Seminary in New York City joined a diverse coalition of over fifty civil society groups that signed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. Winston & Strawn, LLP filed the amicus...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jul 2, 2020 | Human Rights
Prosecuting Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers And Facing Down Legal Threats to Black Lives Last Wednesday, a grand jury indicted the three Georgia men who harassed, chased down, and killed Ahmaud Arbery in broad daylight. Each of the defendants was indicted on nine counts, the...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Jun 19, 2020 | Human Rights
The Brother of George Floyd Offers Historic Testimony before Global Human Rights Body On Wednesday, three weeks after the killing of George Floyd, his brother riveted the United Nations Human Rights Council with resounding testimony about the grief and anger the...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | May 29, 2020 | Human Rights
George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police—the cruel, unjustified killing of yet another Black man by White officers charged to protect and serve—is a mournful window into America’s shameful human rights crisis. If the inherent right to life venerated in...
by Allyson McKinney Timm | Apr 24, 2020 | Human Rights
COVID-19 Is Not the Only Virus at Work: We Must Counter Racist Attacks on Asian Americans A crisis can bring out the best in people. Unfortunately, it can also bring out the worst. The novel coronavirus pandemic has done both. Americans first heard in December about...
