Tuesday, September 1, 2015 | news
In Louisiana parish, a fight for black voting rights In Louisiana parish, a fight for black voting rights, MSNBC reports that Terrebonne Parish has never elected a black judge, even though one in five parish residents is African-American, and that the Parish re-elected a white parish judge who had been suspended for wearing black-face as […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Click here to read LDF’s amicus brief. Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc., which the Supreme Court agreed to hear in 2013, would have tested whether our nation’s commitment to ensuring that all families have a fair opportunity to find a good place to call home will continue. In Mount Holly, the Court would […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | case-update
Today, LDF’s motion to intervene was granted in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, a case in which Shelby County is seeking to invalidate the core Section 5 preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act. LDF has intervened on behalf of African-American residents of the county whose voting rights are directly impacted by the suit. Widely regarded […]
Friday, July 29, 2022 | news
Today, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, a lawsuit that sought to prevent school districts from promoting equal opportunity for all students through race-neutral changes to the admissions policies. In February, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 | news
State-level voting restrictions are an attempt to suppress the minority vote and prevent them from exercising political influence, according to a report released by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Monday. “Jim Crow is poll taxes, James Crow Esquire it’s having to pay for an ID,” said NAACP Sr. Vice President for Policy […]
Wednesday, May 10, 2017 | news
The Environmental Protection Agency has abruptly closed a longstanding civil rights complaint. In December 2003, the Ashurst Bar/Smith community in Tallassee, Alabama, filed a complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which receives federal funds from the EPA, alleging that by permitting the expansion of a landfill community members had long seen as toxic, the agency […]
Thursday, October 28, 2010 | news
In Houston, conservative poll watchers have been accused of hovering over early voters as they've tried to cast their ballots. The same complaints have surfaced in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District—home to Raleigh and other major cities—where poll watchers have been accused of taking down voters' names and addresses. In Indiana's Marion County, an altercation […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
The ACLU of Michigan, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and lawyers from Covington & Burling LLP filed a class-action lawsuit against the Wayne County Treasurer, Wayne County and the City of Detroit to challenge illegal, racially discriminatory tax foreclosures that have pummeled African-American homeowners in recent years. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of seven […]
Monday, June 21, 2021 | staff
Morenike Fajana serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. Prior to this role, Morenike was a Special Counsel at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she worked on civil rights litigation, policy and advocacy matters. Morenike previously worked as a tenant attorney representing individuals, tenant […]
Thursday, April 30, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined over 100 other organizations in sending a letter to congressional leadership urging Congress against passing legislation that would shield businesses from liability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Any legislation that would that would immunize businesses that fail to ensure safe workplaces will subject essential and […]
