Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | director-counsels
Jack Greenberg succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF’s second Director-Counsel from 1961-84. Greenberg first joined LDF in 1949 as a 24 year-old Columbia Law School graduate. At the time, Marshall was looking for an assistant to help fight Jim Crow. A few years later, a 27 year-old Greenberg became the youngest member of the team of […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
Mr. Aronson, an associate professor at New York University, has been a leader in investigating the effects of social forces on academic achievement. Along with the psychologist Claude Steele, he identified the phenomenon known as “stereotype threat.” Members of groups believed to be academically inferior — African-American and Latino students enrolled in college, or female […]
Friday, March 27, 2015 | news
Loretta Lynch has waited longer than any other Attorney General nominee in the past 30 years. Her confirmation is being held up by Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a controversial provision in an anti-human trafficking bill that will prevent women who have been trafficked from using their restitution funds to seek medical abortions for […]
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | ldf-perspectives
It’s Time to for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19 April 24, 2020 America’s ability to limit the death and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 depends on dramatically ramping up testing for the coronavirus – a reality that the President and United States Congress acknowledge with the passage and signing of the […]
Friday, January 31, 2014 | news
Since its inception, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has opposed the institution of capital punishment. Whether it is because the death penalty is mired in racial bias and disproportionality, or because almost 150 people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, or because an astonishing number of capital cases are reversed […]
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | page
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | news
With legislative leaders about to begin redrawing legislative and congressional districts to reflect the 2010 Census, the General Assembly is considering a related issue: Where should prison inmates be counted? The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund says Connecticut is one of 47 states that practices “prison-based gerrymandering” by counting inmates where they are confined, […]
Friday, August 25, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
By Richard Rothstein, Senior Fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America This week, New York Magazine and ProPublica published a scathing article by Alec MacGillis titled, “Is anyone home at HUD?”. Multiple sources — current and former, career, and […]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | news
Does Bridgeport lose legislative juice when its inmate-based population is counted in other communities? State Rep. Charles Stallworth, who won the February special election to replace Chris Caruso in the state legislature, says state prisoners should be counted based on their last community of residence, not the place of their incarceration. Stallworth maintained in testimony […]
Thursday, March 10, 2011 | news
Judge Tyree Irving of Madison and Judge T. Kenneth Griffis of Ridgeland have been appointed as presiding judges of the Mississippi Court of Appeals.Advertisement Irving said, “I look forward to continuing the service I have provided as a judge to the citizens of the state since January 1999. I feel honored to have an opportunity […]
