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NYT article on battle against Stop-and-Frisk of highlights LDF's role in movement
8/14/13Source:New York TimesThe New York Times highlighted the efforts of Communities United for Police Reform which recently achieved a major legal victory in the movement against Stop-and-Frisk tactics. LDF's representatives to CUPR are Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele and Marquis Jenkins.
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Korgaonkar in Politico: "The coming war over voting rights"
8/12/13Source:POLITICO“We’ve had a lot of people writing in about changes and that’s been a really great thing,” Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel in NAACP LDF’s Political Participation Group, told POLITICO. “We’re also keeping our eyes and ears out. Some of the smallest changes that are harder to ascertain from afar are some of the most devastating, or can be, like polling place changes.”
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Ifill on Hardball with Gov. Pataki: "A landmark day for civil rights advocates"
8/12/13Source:Hardball with Chris MattewsSherrilyn Ifill appeared on Hardball with Gov. Pataki. They discussed A.G. Holder's speech on sentencing reform, as well as the landmark Stop-and-Frisk ruling which declared the NYPD's tactics violate rights.
"The reality is that crime began to go down in New York in the 1990s, when David Dinkins was mayor, before we implemented Stop-and-Frisk. And all over the country, crime has been going down. We're at these astonishingly low rates of crime and the question is, can we now begin to correct some of the excesses like Stop-and-Frisk?"
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Southerland Discusses Sequester’s Devastating Effects on Federal Defender Programs
8/07/13Source:Jansing and Co.Justice Sequestered is Justice Denied
Southerland Discusses Sequester’s Devastating Effects
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Ifill in The Root: Where Voting Rights Are Under Attack
8/06/13Source:The RootSouthern states are moving quickly to change laws that will adversely affect minority voters.