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    The Next Generation of Civil Rights Lawyers Could Start Here

    A scholarship program named after late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to be a federal judge, is trying to foster a new generation of lawyers.
    by Carrie Johnson May 17, 2021 2 minutes
    Updated May 17, 2021 at 12:12 PM ET

    A new program run by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund seeking to launch the next generation of civil rights lawyers has named its inaugural class of 10 scholars.

    LDF sifted through hundreds of applications for the

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