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Lobbyists on President Obama’s Gun-Control Proposals

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | news

Groups not typically associated with the debate over gun rights have taken a strong interest in the proposals that the White House put forward. Civil rights activists, mayors, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers are among those who plan to dispatch lobbyists to try and shape the debate. … The NAACP Legal and Educational Fund is similarly critical […]

Lobbyists of all stripes swarm President Obama’s gun-control proposals

Thursday, January 24, 2013 | news

President Obama’s gun-control recommendations have created a lobbying free-for-all on Capitol Hill. Groups not typically associated with the debate over gun rights have taken a strong interest in the proposals that the White House put forward. Civil rights activists, mayors, psychiatrists, scientists and teachers are among those who plan to dispatch lobbyists to try and […]

Little v. Washington Metro Area Transit Authority

Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue

In July 2014, LDF’s Economic Justice Program, together with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee and the law firm Arnold and Porter LLP, filed a class action lawsuit against the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority and three of its contractors, challenging their use of an overly broad and unnecessarily punitive criminal background screening policy. According to the […]

Little v. LATFOR

Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue

Last year, New York enacted legislation (known as “Part XX”) ending the practice known as “prison-based gerrymandering,” and realigning the state’s redistricting practices with basic principles of equality. “Prison-based gerrymandering” is a practice whereby many states and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the areas where they are housed when election district lines […]

Little Rock School District v. Lorene Joshua

Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue

This long-standing school desegregation case addresses key educational equity issues, including  racial disparities in school discipline, student achievement, access to advanced placement and honors curriculum and inequities school facilities in three Arkansas school districts:  the Little Rock School District, the North Little Rock School District and the Pulaski County School District.  Each of these districts […]

Lito Pernia

Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff

Listen to Vincent Southerland’s Oral Argument in 6th Circuit

Friday, October 11, 2013 | news

On Wednesday, LDF’s Criminal Justice team traveled to Cincinnati to hear Vincent Southerland argue for prisoners serving unfair sentences under the racially biased and discredited 100:1 crack/powder sentencing disparity. Listen to Vincent’s argument here. Read LDF’s amicus brief here.

Listen to Jack Greenberg and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in their own words

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | page

Jack Greenberg, LDF’s second Director-Counsel and a member of the Brown legal team, discusses LDF’s strategy in Brown, the experience of arguing before the Court, the long road to desegregation, and his friendship with Thurgood Marshall Listen here. 0:33–The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s strategy to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson 3:05–The beginnings of the five Brown cases: equal facilities, not […]

Lisa North

Thursday, June 2, 2022 | staff

Lisa North joined NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in 2022 as Chief Operating Officer.  She is responsible for managing a smooth-running, highly effective, and inclusive organization capable of delivering on its strategy, in a context of achieving larger impact and scale.    Lisa brings thirty-five years of experience in social justice and human rights […]

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