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No End in (Over)Sight: Civil Rights Questions for Sessions

by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel Following the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) called on Congress to exercise its oversight authority over the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure the agency was doing everything in its power to prosecute hate and domestic terrorism crimes, and to enforce […]

No Chance to Make it Right

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Leaves Discriminatory Disfranchisement Law in Place

(New York) – Last month, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) argued before an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that Washington’s felon disfranchisement law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it denies the right to vote to its Black, Latino and Native American citizens on […]

Nikole Hannah-Jones Reaches Settlement Agreement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Despite her exceptional and exemplary journalism credentials and having received a faculty recommendation of tenure for the Knight Foundation-endowed Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was effectively and discriminatorily denied tenure in 2021 by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees. Although the Board ultimately reversed its initial decision, one that was loudly condemned on UNC’s campus and across the […]

Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on UNC Board of Trustees Vote

Today, the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted 9-4 to grant award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure in connection with her appointment as the Knight Foundation Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the Hussman School of Journalism. The vote comes after unprecedented action by the Board to initially […]

Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University

Today, award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones announced that she has declined an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). In her first extensive comments since the UNC Board of Trustees voted on her tenure, Ms. Hannah-Jones released the following statement: “I have loved the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]

Nicole Austin-Hillery

Nicole Austin-Hillery is the President and CEO of the CBC Foundation. She previously served as the U.S. Program Executive Director for Human Rights Watch, leading efforts to end violations in the abusive US immigration system, tackle race discrimination and other rights problems with the domestic criminal justice system, and advocate for national security policies informed […]

Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, 1922 – 2012

In the early 1960s Nicholas Katzenbach was part of the cadre of talented lawyers from the Justice Department who worked to ensure that the national promise of equality too long ignored was finally kept. In those years, Katzenbach, as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s deputy and later as Attorney General himself, led the Department’s efforts […]

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Newly Discovered 1033 Military Surplus Records Show School Districts Around the Country are Receiving Advanced Military Equipment

Education and Civil Rights Groups Call for an End to Militarization of K-12 School Police   UPDATE: After intense public pressure spurred by our letter to the Defense Logistics Agency,  schools districts have begun returning surplus military weapons. Read reports from around the country. Lisa Gartner, Pinellas schools returning M-16 assault rifles, Tampa Bay Times […]