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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, […]

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Interviews With Canadian Broadcast Channel During NYC Protest to Stop Police Violence

On the Canadian Broadcast Channel (CBC), LDF Senior Community Organizer Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele reports live from the “NYC Millions March” on December 13, 2014 in Manhattan as part of a mass community demonstration to go peacefully into the streets all over the country to demand justice for victims of police violence and institutionalized racism. 

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Among Voices Urging Recording of Police

How and Why You Should Record the Police Broadly speaking, it is always legal to record the police in public places or when they are on-duty, so long as the witness does not interfere with police proceedings. And the proliferation of smart phones and social media has made citizen monitoring of police activity easy: people […]

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Lucinda Brawley Gantt

In fall of 1963, Lucinda Brawley enrolled as the second African American student ever to attend Clemson University in South Carolina. A native of Hopkins, South Carolina, Ms. Brawley began dating civil rights leader Harvey Gantt when they were both undergraduate students. In an interview with Lynn Haessly in 1986, Harvey Gantt recalled meeting Lucinda; […]

Louisville Protesters v. Louisville Metro Police

UPDATE – Motion to dismiss denied On November 25, 2020, a Kentucky district court denied the defense’s motion to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit against the City of Louisville, Kentucky, for the Louisville Metro Police Department’s (LMPD) repeated use of military-type force and intimidation in response to peaceful protesters demonstrating against police violence.  The lawsuit was filed […]

Louisiana’s Governor Requires Schools to Provide Meals and Instruction for the State’s Children in Line with LDF’s Recommendations

On Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the State’s K-12 schools will remain closed for the remainder of the academic year, but pointedly emphasized that instruction will continue. “This is not the end of learning for this academic year. It’s just the end of students physically going to school campuses,” Edwards said. “I […]