Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
As Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Jin Hee Lee leads the Strategic Initiatives Department, which houses specific projects and campaigns integrating LDF’s multi-faceted advocacy tools—including litigation, policy, organizing, communications, research, and public education—to maximize the impact of affirmative, strategic, and community-centered advocacy that secures the full citizenship and equality of […]
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | staff
As Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Jin Hee Lee leads the Strategic Initiatives Department, which houses specific projects and campaigns that integrate LDF’s multi-faceted advocacy tools—including litigation, policy, organizing, communications, research, and public education—to maximize the impact of affirmative, strategic, and community-centered advocacy that secures the full citizenship and equality […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Jennifer A. Holmes joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in 2017 and now serves as Deputy Director of Litigation. She supervises litigation involving economic justice, including cases combating discrimination in housing, employment, lending, and access to water to help Black communities achieve economic security and opportunity. Jennifer helped develop Pickett v. Cleveland, a lawsuit […]
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | page
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | news
Last July, Governor Paterson signed into law a bill that did away with the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk database. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Senator Eric Adams, made it illegal for police officers to add the names and addresses of every person they stop, question and frisk to an electronic database used in […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | news
Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, died Sunday. In 1957 he and eight other black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, risked their lives to go to the high school they were entitled to in order to prove the greatest declaration of American idealism had meaning. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that […]
Friday, January 6, 2017 | news
Jeff Sessions is applying to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. The People’s Lawyer. If he could not even fill out the government job application for the post he seeks accurately and truthfully, how can he be expected to guide the Department of Justice with competence and integrity at a time when our country […]
Monday, August 26, 2019 | staff
Jared Evans currently serves as Senior Policy Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest and foremost civil rights law organization. Jared’s practice area at LDF is focused on political participation, with a particular emphasis on voting rights and redistricting, and has served as LDF’s census coordinator since 2019. […]
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 | page
JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE HEARINGS The violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a brazen, virulent, and deadly manifestation of the concerted effort to undermine our democracy, to overthrow the government, and to negate the votes cast by our communities. January 6 was not an isolated incident, but rather part of an ongoing, […]
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | news
S. Carolina case lesson: Police shouldn’t be doing school discipline As long as students of color are profiled, criminalized and pushed out of school, we will continue to be bombarded with reports of “disturbing” incidents. All of us will bear the brunt of the consequences of allowing these horrific interactions to continue. Students are affected […]
