Lawyers for Civil Rights

“A Black eighth grader … was subjected to racial bullying,” read a press release from the Lawyers for Civil Rights last week. It represented the latest salvo from the crusading pro-bono attorneys who originated the suit desegregating Boston’s public schools a half-century ago.

Even as summer temperatures beat down, for the about 70 residents of the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center on Mission Hill, Christmas is coming.

A Suffolk County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday to put the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center into receivership after community members took matters into their own hands in an attempt to stop the center’s pending closure.

In the last five years, Lawyers for Civil Rights has ramped up its capacity to litigate cases, doubling its size as the organization takes on cases of national significance — including its suit against DeSantis and a challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

After news broke last week that a group of 50 Venezuelan migrants arrived unannounced via airplane to Martha’s Vineyard, immigration attorney Julio Henriquez knew he had to do something.

With white and Asian students over-represented in the city’s three selective-admissions schools, the one-year change was widely seen as a way to broaden the racial and socio-economic diversity in the schools.