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Connie Rice

Connie Rice

Connie Rice is renowned for her unconventional approaches to tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. Rice has received more than 50 major awards for her leadership of diverse coalitions, and her non-traditional approaches to litigating major cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination and fair public resource allocation. She successfully co-litigated class-action, civil rights cases winning more than $1.6 billion in policy changes and remedies during her nine year tenure in the Los Angeles office of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). One of the founders of The Advancement Project, Rice is a graduate of Harvard College and... Read full bio

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EURweb, May 10, 2012
...A celebrity filled panel (I know I have his attention now because I know he like celebrities). Attorney Connie Rice and several others high profile community “celebrities” will be there to tell of their work in trying to rebuild South L.A.. Bryant...
Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2012
...large, who was covering the Los Angeles Police Department for the L.A. Times when the riots began. Connie Rice was a civil rights activist and lawyer, and later a co-founder of , and the recent author of "Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for...
Monroe Courier, April 19, 2012
...Civil rights attorney Connie Rice will be the guest speaker at the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition’s 27th annual breakfast Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 a.m., Holiday Inn, 1070 Main Street, Bridgeport...
Morning Call, April 18, 2012
...Redemption" with Times columnist Patt Morrison. On Sunday KCRW's Warren Olney interviews Gil Garcetti, Jim Newton and Connie Rice for "Los Angeles 20 Years After the Rodney King Verdict." The craft of writing — fiction and nonfiction — is the subject...
Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2012
...unrest, and the change it brought to the city, will be radio host Warren Olney, civil rights attorney Connie Rice, former L.A. Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti, and Times' editor-at-large Jim Newton. Those who purchase panel passes can select up to eight...
Columbus Dispatch, March 2, 2012
...outfit’s worst pseudo-macho excesses. It’s interesting that Rampart is coming out at the same moment lawyer Connie Rice is promoting a memoir recalling her own efforts to hold L.A.’s gangs, politicians and police department accountable during the...
Cerritos-Artesia Patch, March 1, 2012
...Cerritos Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA | Get Directions » FREE Gina Carroll, Rashad Harrison, Connie Rice among the authors appearing in the Orange County, CA, Chapter, The Links, Incorporated annual event. 33.867968 -118.063842 primary...
Columbus Dispatch, March 2, 2012
...outfit’s worst pseudo-macho excesses. It’s interesting that Rampart is coming out at the same moment lawyer Connie Rice is promoting a memoir recalling her own efforts to hold L.A.’s gangs, politicians and police department accountable during the...
Cerritos-Artesia Patch, March 1, 2012
...Cerritos Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA | Get Directions » FREE Gina Carroll, Rashad Harrison, Connie Rice among the authors appearing in the Orange County, CA, Chapter, The Links, Incorporated annual event. 33.867968 -118.063842 primary...
Delaware Online, February 12, 2012
...conversation at the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, held at John Jay College.(Page 3 of 4)Connie Rice, a Los Angeles community activist, said police there experienced "a lot of pushback" against the strategy from some political and police-union...
Delaware Online, February 12, 2012
...conversation at the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, held at John Jay College.(Page 3 of 4)Connie Rice, a Los Angeles community activist, said police there experienced "a lot of pushback" against the strategy from some political and police-union...
Delaware Online, February 12, 2012
...conversation at the Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America, held at John Jay College.(Page 3 of 4)Connie Rice, a Los Angeles community activist, said police there experienced "a lot of pushback" against the strategy from some political and police-union...
Daily Tar Heel, February 10, 2012
...Groups 7 hours ago 3 pairs run for senior class co-presidents 9 hours ago A trailblazer by blood: Connie Rice inspires with her uniquely headstrong attitude 10 hours ago Jon Curtis, adviser to student government and organizations, retires FEB 9 Races...
Daily Tar Heel, February 10, 2012
...protest 7 hours ago 3 pairs run for senior class co-presidents 8 hours ago A trailblazer by blood: Connie Rice inspires with her uniquely headstrong attitude 9 hours ago UNC-system President Thomas Ross’ tuition and fee increase proposal has passed...