Wednesday, September 16, 2015 | news
As part of the ACSblog’s 2015 Constitution Day Symposium, Victorien Wu wrote a blog post regarding LDF’s efforts to vindicate the fundamental right to vote of Black voters in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. A Commitment Yet To Be Fulfilled The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution hold the promise of equal political citizenship for Black […]
Monday, December 23, 2019 | staff
Victoria (Tori) Wenger is an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where she focuses primarily on voting rights matters. In 2020, Tori served as council in Harding v. Edwards, 484 F. Supp. 3d 299 (M.D. La. 2020), a successful federal challenge to expand critical early voting and absentee-by-mail opportunities in […]
Friday, October 8, 2021 | staff
Victor Jones serves as Senior Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund Defense (LDF), where he litigates school desegregation and other education cases in federal courts. Through his efforts as a school desegregation attorney, Victor has helped thousands of schoolchildren in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama obtain the equal educational opportunities they are constitutionally entitled to receive […]
Monday, June 7, 2021 | staff
Victor Dempsey serves as a Community Organizer at the LDF. Prior to joining LDF, Mr. Dempsey was a Community Organizer for the Legal Aid Society’s Community Justice Unit. At the heart of Mr. Dempsey’s advocacy and activism is the tragic loss of his brother, Delrawn Small, who was killed at the hands of an off-duty police […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | case-issue
Vette v. Sanders Challenging Qualified Immunity On December 31, 2017, Eric Vette was apprehended and arrested on non-violent charges. After he was apprehended, and despite being unarmed and putting up no resistance, Mr. Vette was repeatedly punched and hit in the face with a dog chain by Sergeant Keith Sanders, a sergeant in the Montrose […]
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 | news
How Detroit Is Making Water A Racial Hot Button Detroit is in the middle of a water crisis that has captured the nation’s attention. Thousands of Detroit residents may have their water turned off over past due balances. Veronica Joice along with Demeeko Williams and Cirtrose Garmer debated this highly contested topic on “NewsOne Now.” Listen […]
Friday, May 4, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Verna has been a school administrator for the past 40 plus years. She is known for helping organizations and institutions create and foster a climate where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and respected. Verna has served as the vice principal of Five Oaks Middle School, the principal of Cedar Park Middle School, the principal of Montclair […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
United States v. Texas / Veasey v. Abbott is LDF’s lawsuit challenging SB 14, Texas’s restrictive photo ID law, and any legislation that bears the discriminatory taint of that law. SB 14 was previously blocked through the Voting Rights Act Section 5 litigation in 2012. Following the Shelby County decision in 2013, Texas immediately (and […]
Thursday, March 23, 2017 | news
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights announced today that it and its sister organization, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, had selected civil rights litigator and advocate Vanita Gupta to assume the leadership of both organizations. The chairs of the two organizations’ boards made the announcement after a joint board meeting to […]
Monday, January 13, 2020 | staff
