Your Search Results

Little Rock School District v. Lorene Joshua

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Lisa Gilford

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Lisa Cylar Barrett is the Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. Ms. Cylar Barrett initially joined LDF as Senior Policy Counsel and in that role led the policy efforts related to Economic Justice. Prior to joining LDF, Ms. Cylar Barrett served as the Managing Director, Federal Policy at PolicyLink. […]

Lisa Cylar Barrett

Lisa Cylar Barrett is the Director of Policy at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. Ms. Cylar Barrett initially joined LDF as Senior Policy Counsel and in that role led the policy efforts related to Economic Justice. Prior to joining LDF, Ms. Cylar Barrett served as the Managing Director, Federal Policy at PolicyLink. […]

Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks Make History as U.S. Senators-Elect

As a result of decisive victories Tuesday night in Delaware and Maryland, Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-Senate) and Angela Alsobrooks (MD-Senate) will become the first two Black women to serve in the U.S. Senate at the same time in our nation’s history. Both women also will become the first Black women U.S. Senators to represent each […]

Line drawn on prison head count debate

There are legal and practical merits on both sides of the issue. Nozzolio pointed to a section of New York’s Constitution that says the census data “shall be controlling” for redistricting purposes. He argued this supersedes any law, and blasted the corrections data as having “no check or verification.” Linda Foglia, a spokeswoman for the Department […]