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 […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | news
NAACP Calls Mr. Buck’s Death Penalty Case a “Blatant Example of Racial Bias” (Harris County, Texas, March 20, 2013) Today, 102 prominent individuals from Texas and throughout the country released a statement urging Texas officials to provide a new, fair sentencing hearing for Duane Buck. Mr. Buck is an African-American man who was condemned to death after […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | case-update
(Harris County, Texas, March 20, 2013) Today, 102 prominent individuals from Texas and throughout the country released a statement urging Texas officials to provide a new, fair sentencing hearing for Duane Buck. Mr. Buck is an African-American man who was condemned to death after his sentencing jury was told that he posed a future danger because of […]
Thursday, June 2, 2011 | news
Nearly two decades after a zero-tolerance culture took hold in American schools, a growing number of educators and elected leaders are scaling back discipline policies that led to lengthy suspensions and ousters for such mistakes as carrying toy guns or Advil. This rethinking has come in North Carolina and Denver, in Baltimore and Los Angeles […]
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | news
On Tuesday, Monique Lin-Luse, Special Counsel in the Education Group talked with NY1 about the dismal admissions figures released from New York City’s Specialized High Schools. The statistics — 7 black students admitted to Stuyvesant and 18 Black students accepted to Bronx Science — show that acute racial disparities in admissions have persisted. Nonetheless, the […]
Friday, December 2, 2016 | news
The trial is underway to determine whether Gardendale City Schools can separate from Jefferson County Schools and form its own school system. “The plaintiffs … which are black students and their parents in Jefferson County … want to ensure that Jefferson County is able to do what it needs to do to provide their Constitutional […]
Friday, August 26, 2016 | news
A Southern City Wants to Secede from Its School District, Raising Concerns about Segregation “Resegregation is something that gets talked about a lot as sort of like a drip of water over time, and it eventually creates some huge hole in the wall,” said Monique Lin-Luse, a lawyer for the Legal Defense Fund. “This is […]
Friday, May 5, 2017 | news
On average, the number of school-aged children in seceding districts is about 4,000 compared to the roughly 32,000 school-aged children that comprise the districts from which they secede, according to the EdBuild analysis. “In most cases, a county is left with less resources when a municipal city school leaves,” Monique Lin-Luse explains. “Further, where there […]
Monday, May 18, 2015 | news
On 900AM WURD, Monique Lin-Luse discusses the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the ESEA. LDF continues to advocate for strong federal oversight to be included in the reauthorization of the ESEA (Elementary and SEcondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind) in order to ensure resource equity and quality education for all children. “LDF is still pursuing promise and […]
