{"id":153084,"date":"2026-03-04T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153084\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:43:09","slug":"legal-aid-society-celebrates-150-years-of-protecting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153084\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Aid Society celebrates 150 years of protecting rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal Aid Society has been the city\u2019s premier nonprofit law firm and the nation\u2019s largest civil legal services provider for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the agency celebrates 150 years of protecting and defending the rights of people across the five boroughs. To commemorate the milestone, The New York Historical is hosting an exhibit called \u201cDelivering Justice: 150 Years of the Legal Aid Society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society\u2019s CEO and attorney-in-chief, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Wednesday to discuss the exhibit and the agency\u2019s legacy across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Legal Aid Society has been the city\u2019s premier nonprofit law firm and the nation\u2019s largest civil legal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,471,9,24,12,56,2370,63,65,64,3111,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-153084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-dean-meminger","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-ny1-interviews","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-the-rush-hour","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}