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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 […]

Louisiana v. Callais

Case: Voting Rights and Redistricting Louisiana v. Callais FAQ The Fight for Fair Maps in Louisiana and the Long Road to the Supreme Court Supreme Court Oral Argument: March 24, 2025 What is Louisiana v. Callais about? Louisiana v. Callais is a redistricting case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will determine the future of […]

Louisiana Redistricting Plan Gets Negative National Attention

The redistricting plan adopted by the Legislature  for its state House districts has gained national attention – and not in a good way. A broad coalition is urging the U.S. Justice Department to reject the plan, calling it discriminatory. The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF), the National Urban League, the Louisiana Legislative Black […]

Louisiana redistricting case seen as crucial test of Voting Rights Act

In a racially mixed corner of Shreveport, La., a small group of white voters protested loudly this year that they did not want to be part of a majority black district when the legislature redrew the state’s political boundaries. The Republican-led statehouse complied, drawing a line around the community to accommodate them. That line is […]

Louisiana Passes Map with Second Majority-Black Congressional District

Following years of litigation, Black voters finally set to achieve fair map BATON ROUGE, LA – Today, the Louisiana Legislature passed a map that creates a second majority-Black congressional district after being granted a final opportunity to pass a map before a federal court trial. The map comes as a direct result of years of […]