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Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, […]

Marian Wright Edelman

Marcia Tuckett

Marcia Tuckett

Manning Marable: Our Great Scholar-Activist

“Instead of leadership from above, democracy from below.”- Dr. Manning Marable A few weeks ago, I had dinner with Dr. Manning Marable and his wife, Leith Mullings, whose voluminous books, papers and op-ed columns comprise a critical collection of today’s discourse on race in America. We had just completed a talk at the Hue-Man Bookstore […]

Making Real the Promises of Our Democracy: LDF’s Janai Nelson Delivers MLK Day Speech in Bloomington, Indiana

  It’s clear that Bloomington takes very seriously the idea that MLK Day is “a day on—not a day off.” For over two decades, you’ve held this ceremony as a way of symbolizing your commitment to the principles for which Dr. King lived and died. And for many years, many of you impressively have spent […]

Making a Voting Plan that Works for You: Voters Across the South Share Their Plans to Cast Their Ballots

The Importance of Making a Voting Plan that Works for You Voters Across the South Share Their Plans to Cast Their Ballots By Gianna Baez Social Media Strategist Early voting is already underway in most states across the nation. In fact, there are record turnout rates for early voting in states like Georgia, and, nationwide, 63 […]

Magner v. Gallagher

LDF filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the United States Supreme Court in Magner v. Gallagher.  In Magner, a group of private landlords of low-income housing challenged the City of St. Paul’s practice of selectively targeting them for heightened housing code enforcement.  The plaintiffs alleged that this practice increased the costs of […]

Luncheon to Celebrate the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

To commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will be hosting a luncheon, May 17, 2019 at 1:00 PM EST, to celebrate the historic victory as well as some of the incredible women who made it possible. The […]

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Writes in Ebony on the Right to Resist Police Brutality

The Right to Resist: How Will YOU Fight Police Brutality? ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER LUMUMBA AKINWOLE-BANDELE ON THE NEED TO CHALLENGE THE RIGHT OF POLICE TO TERRORIZE OUR COMMUNITIES “We declare our right on this earth…to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, […]