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LDF Blog Speaks to the Criminalization of the Black Community
7/26/13Jin Hee Lee, Senior Counsel in LDF's Criminal Justice Project, writes in a blog for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty about how the Trayvon Martin tragedy is related to the racial discrimination in our capital punishment system.
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The Rachel Maddow Show Interviews LDF about Voting Rights in Texas
7/25/13NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Ryan Haygood appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the important effort by the Department of Justice to have Texas submit all proposed voting changes for review before they can take effect. Attorney General Holder’s announcement sends an important message in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that took the country’s most effective tool against voter suppression out of commission.
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LDF Director-Counsel Ifill Appears on TJMS to Encourage Fight for Voting Rights
7/24/13Today LDF Director Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared with Roland Martin and Tom Joyner on the syndicated radio program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS).
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LDF Discusses Stand your Ground Laws
7/21/13Christina Swarns, Director of LDF's Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry show to discuss the problems with Stand Your Ground laws.
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Ryan Haygood on Melissa Harris Perry: Voting Rights are Under Attack
7/21/13The Director of the Political Participation Group at NAACP Legal Defense Fund Ryan Haygood joined the Melissa Harris Perry Show to discuss the serious threat to voting rights facing African Americans. LDF defended the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, but last month they issued an outrageous ruling to take it out of commission. LDF is urging Congress to step in and asking the public to notify us of any discriminatory voting changes in their communities by emailing vote@naacpldf.org .