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LDF Statement on the Voting Rights Act at 50
8/06/15
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LDF Client Imani Clark Talks on Her Experience with Voting Laws As We Mark the VRA 50th Anniversary
8/06/15Source:PBS NewsHour50 years on, does the Voting Rights Act offer adequate protection?
Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory practices used to stop Americans from casting a ballot. President Obama marked the occasion with civil rights leaders, cautioning that those rights are still at risk. Gwen Ifill talks to Imani Clark, a student at Prairie View A&M University, voting rights scholar Kareem Crayton and Zoltan Hajnal of University of California, San Diego.
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Janai Nelson Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the VRA and the Anniversary of Mike Brown's Death
8/05/15Source:Reuters
Steps Congress must take to ensure true freedom
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As 50th Anniversary of VRA Nears, LDF Attorney Natasha Korgaonkar Explains Connection Between Voter Suppression and Sandra Bland's Police Encounter
8/04/15Source:CNN
Sleepy county's history of discrimination
It's a process that has become all too familiar for civil rights lawyers this past year -- sitting at a computer poring over yet another video showing a state official killing or injuring another unarmed Black person. But hearing of the death of Sandra Bland in a Waller County, Texas, jail was especially challenging for me.
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Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Univ. of Cincinnati Police Officer Raymond Tensing Indictment in Death of Samuel Dubose
7/30/15Ohio police officer charged with murder
Univ. of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing has been charged with the murder of Samuel Dubose following a traffic stop. Lawrence is joined by the [NAACP Legal Defense Fund's President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill, fmr. NYPD Officer Eugene O'Donnell, and the Cincinnati Enquirer's Byron McCauley.