Thursday, January 13, 2011 | news
When Kemba Smith Pradia spoke this fall to a gathering of students at South Carolina State University, her candid talk about violence against women and the campus “hype” over drugs, sex and money resonated with students and faculty alike. “By having enough courage to stand up and share her story, she empowered a lot of […]
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | page
Learn more about the landmark Supreme Court decision that opened the doors for equal education in America. Learn more about the Brown v. Board of Education landmark case Research educational documents from the case at the National Archives Significant Moments in Brown v Board of Education 1935 Pearson v. Murray: After the University of Maryland Law School denied admission to Thurgood […]
Thursday, January 18, 2024 | staff
Leah Wong joins the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as an Attorney in 2023, where she focuses on defending and advancing voting rights and racial justice through an integrated advocacy approach of litigation, community organizing, and policy advocacy. She previously worked as a Deputy Associate Counsel in the Biden-Harris Administration, where she […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Leah C. Aden currently serves as Senior Counsel at LDF. Leah previously served as a Deputy Director of Litigation at LDF from October 2018 to May 2023, assisting in the planning, strategy, and supervision of LDF’s voting rights work addressing vote denial and vote dilution schemes. During the post-2020 Census redistricting cycle — the first […]
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | staff
Leah C. Aden currently serves as Senior Counsel at LDF. Leah previously served as a Deputy Director of Litigation at LDF from October 2018 to May 2023, assisting in the planning, strategy, and supervision of LDF’s voting rights work addressing vote denial and vote dilution schemes. During the post-2020 Census redistricting cycle — the first in decades […]
Friday, May 30, 2014 | news
Leah Aden, Assistant Counsel of the Political Participation Group, writes for American Constitution Society’s blog about the historic district-based voting that recently took place in Fayette County, Georgia for the first time in the county’s 191-year history. Days after commemorating Brown, Black voters in Fayette County took to the polls during a primary election to elect their […]
Friday, April 10, 2015 | news
Opinion: Fayette at-large voting discriminates “Not surprisingly, though black voters in 1960 comprised 25 percent of Fayette’s population according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, at-large voting in the county — a structural wall of exclusion — prevented black voters from ever electing a candidate of choice to the school board or county commission. […]
Monday, March 7, 2016 | news
Did you know that approximately one-and-a-half million Floridians with felony convictions can not vote. Why Is It Still So Hard for Ex-Cons to Vote in Florida? “Florida is one of the states with the harshest felon disenfranchisement laws,” says Leah Aden, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “Absent federal legislation or courts striking down […]
Sunday, March 8, 2015 | news
50 Years After Selma, African Americans In Alabama Say: ‘Hell No, We’re Not Going Back’ ..Leah Aden with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which represented the Shelby County plaintiffs, told ThinkProgress she and other civil rights lawyers are currently scrambling to take over the monitoring the federal government once provided. She has Google alerts set up for […]
Thursday, April 9, 2015 | news
In voting rights win, bill to cut Georgia early voting is dead The effort’s apparent demise came after feverish organizing by a broad coalition of voting rights, civil rights, good government, and Democratic groups. “Many thanks to you for your efforts, using your voice and that of your networks to bring attention to the issue […]
