Monday, March 11, 2013 | news
Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, discusses, on the Rachael Maddow Show, why it is imperative that the U. S. Supreme Court uphold the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Watch his video appearance here
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | case-update
Ria Tabacco Mar, LDF Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, highlights in Ebony.com the strikingly similar text and tone of today’s continuing debate on Marriage Equality with past language all too familiar to African Americans in the defense of institutional racial inequality. Read the article here.
Monday, March 18, 2013 | case-update
LDF Criminal Justice Project Director, Christina Swarns, speaks with David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio on how racial bias influenced the death penalty sentence against Duane Buck. Her interview begins 15:33 minutes into this audio replay.
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
LDF Criminal Justice Project Director, Christina Swarns, speaks with David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio on how racial bias influenced the death penalty sentence against Duane Buck. Her interview begins 15:33 minutes into this audio replay.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | news
Damon Hewitt, Director of LDF’s Education Practice Group, was featured in a WNYC radio/www.Schoolbook.com story about LDF’s challenge to the admissions process for New York City’s elite Specialized High Schools. “Last year almost 1000 students were offered admission to Stuyvesant, only 19 of those offers were to African American students,” said Damon Hewitt . . […]
Friday, February 22, 2013 | news
On Thursday, February 21, 2013, Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, appeared on “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, along with Julie Fernandes, former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice and current Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society Foundations. Mr. Haygood engaged in a thoughtful discussion about the […]
Monday, July 1, 2013 | news
Natasha M. Korgaonkar, NAACP LDF Assistant Counsel, discusses in an op ed the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which struck a key provision of Voting Rights Act. Ms. Korgaonkar explains that the heart of the Voting Rights Act remains relevant, and necessary, to our democracy today.
Thursday, February 28, 2013 | news
Ryan Haygood, LDF’s Director of the Political Participation Group, discusses oral argument in the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton. Mr. Haygood explains that the Supreme Court has recognized the constitutionality of Congress’s decision, made after an extensive legislative review, to reauthorize Section 5 of the VRA […]
Friday, June 14, 2013 | news
Director of LDF’s Economic Justice Group, ReNika Moore, appears on HuffPost Live with the EEOC’s top lawyer and a community activist discussing how employer’s use background checks can unfairly and unlawfully keep African American jobseekers out of work.
Monday, May 13, 2013 | news
On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC’s, “Up with Steve Kornacki” to discuss the death penalty, whether or not it is a deterrent, and the extent to which American views on capital punishment have shifted. In this context, Ms. Swarns also discussed the role of race […]
