The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program on Monday to support a new generation of civil rights lawyers, dedicated to pursuing racial justice across the South.
With that whopping gift from a single anonymous donor, the fund plans to put 50 students through law schools across the country. In return, they must commit to eight years of racial justice work in the South, starting with a two-year post-graduate fellowship in a civil rights organization.
"The donor came to us," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
arrow Audrey Strauss at a July 2020 press conference about Ghislaine Maxwell s arrest John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
After stepping into the role in an acting basis after her boss was pushed out, Audrey Strauss was formally named the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
The NY Times notes, [T]he judges of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, exercising a rarely used power, formally appointed her to the post, extending her tenure as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. While the court gave no reasons, the move clearly seemed intended to keep Ms. Strauss, 73, in her job until President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office and can fill the post with his own candidate.
Biden: Trump Attempted to Invalidate 20 Million Votes in Four States
President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Electoral College certification at the Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware, on December 14, 2020.
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Following the Electoral College votes that took place across all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., on Monday, President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation in a speech that acknowledged the many ways in which President Donald Trump tried to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential race.
“In America, politicians don’t take power, people grant power to them,” Biden said in his speech. “The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power can extinguish that flame.”