Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | case-update
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens publicly criticized the recent ruling by a slim majority of the court to tear the heart out of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Stevens’ critique was part of a book review he authored for The New York Review of Books of historian Gary May’s Bending Toward Justice: The […]
Friday, February 18, 2011 | news
The Columbia Journal of Race and Law, whose editor-in-chief is Sheila Adams (Columbia Law, ’11), made its official debut today. Sheila is a current Warren Scholarship recipient and a former Summer LDF Law Intern. In connection with the Journal’s unveiling, there will be a panel on civil rights at Columbia Law on February 21, featuring Jack Greenberg, […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) announced that former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro will join LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow. Secretary Castro will collaborate with TMI on initiatives related to lifting communities of color out of poverty and boosting their economic […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | news
Testimony: Duane Buck’s Case, Whose Sentencing Hearing Was Poisoned With Racial Discrimination, Shows That Texas Needs The Racial Justice Act (Austin, Texas, April 16, 2013) Several prominent Texans submitted testimony to the House of Representatives Criminal Jurisprudence Committee today in support of the Racial Justice Act, which seeks to prohibit the imposition of a death […]
Monday, December 30, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill writes in The Root today that pop culture and social media scandals like Paula Deen and Duck Dynasty distract us from meaningful civil rights and social justice challenges that should command our full attention. Ifill adds that for LDF, the lesson from 2013 is to choose race battles for meaningful political, economic and social […]
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | page
Forced Moves How Rent Increases are Driving Informal Evictions Across the Country By Sandhya Kajeepeta, PhD, Lauren O’Neil and Kenya Cummings Nearly every city in the U.S. is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. Increases in rent costs have been outpacing increases in income for years, and the number of rent-burdened households (spending more than 30% […]
Monday, February 1, 2016 | news
In a recent blog post on The DailyKos, Denise Oliver Velez pointedly reminds us of the controversy about the continued relevance of Black History Month. “Each year,” Velez writes, “as we move into the month of February, which is Black (or African-American) History Month, once again there is a spate of news articles and blog posts about […]
Thursday, January 7, 2016 | news
Following yesterday’s grand jury indictment of a Texas State trooper for perjury in connection with his traffic stop and arrest of Sandra Bland—and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (Texas DPS) initiation of proceedings to discharge the trooper—the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) reiterates its call for commonsense reforms to eliminate racially-biased […]
Thursday, March 31, 2022 | news
Today, a federal judge struck down Florida’s suppressive voting law, S.B. 90, ruling that it violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The court will also retain jurisdiction of this case for 10 years, during which Florida may not enact any […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
The State of Florida filed Florida v. United States, a lawsuit that asks a federal court to approve, under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the implementation four proposed voting changes. Because these proposed changes, if approved by the court, would be harmful to Florida’s minority voters, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) represents the […]
