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Policing Reform Campaign

Democracy Diminished: LDF Releases Report on State and Local Threats to Voting Rights Three Years After Landmark Shelby County Decision

Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Alabama

President Obama Honors Jack Greenberg

10/13/16

Source:
The White House

Statement by the President on the Passing of Jack Greenberg
LDF Remembers Civil Rights Icon Jack Greenberg

10/12/16
Liliana Zaragoza in Alliance for Justice: Race Discrimination in Court Trials Must be Eliminated "Root and Branch"

10/11/16

Source:
Alliance for Justice

Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado and the Persistence of Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Racial Bias in Jury Deliberations Case

10/11/16
LDF Statement on Death of Ken Thompson, District Attorney for Brooklyn

10/10/16

NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the death of Ken Thompson, District Attorney for Brooklyn: