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Recommend Only Two Black Attorneys in the Entire Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice - (Out of 50) (Email)

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Since 2003...the criminal section within the Civil Rights Division has not hired a single black attorney to replace those who have left. Not one.

As a result, the current face of civil rights prosecutions looks like this: Out of fifty attorneys in the Criminal Section - only two are black. The same number the criminal section had in 1978 - even though the size of the staff has more than doubled.

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Congressman John Conyers - Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee - was amazed to learn the Civil Rights Division has so few black attorneys trying criminal cases.

Congressman John Conyers: "They don’t have the diversity that we’re saying is required in the country in businesses and of course in the Department of Justice itself."

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