Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | news
Born to service. That’s the phrase that comes quickly to mind when recalling the particulars of the career of Representative Donald M. Payne, D-N.J., who died yesterday morning at the age of 77. That is what he preached. That is what he practiced, first, on the streets and in the neighborhoods of his birthplace of […]
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
Don’t Politicize the 2020 Census Count By Leah Aden, LDF Senior Counsel In 2020, the federal government will undertake the monumental and important task of attempting to count each person residing within our country’s borders. An exercise that has taken place every 10 years, since 1790, and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, it cannot […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Delores Johnson Hurt is the second African American president of the League of Women Voters Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a local chapter of the venerable nonpartisan civic and voter advocacy organization. In 1964 she enrolled at Winthrop University as one of its first African American students. Since her election as LWV president in May 2016, she’s tried to […]
Monday, May 16, 2011 | news
Thousands of New York prisoners are being set free – from being counted in upstate Republicans’ state Senate districts. Under the federal Voting Rights Act, the Department of Justice has just approved counting inmates in their hometowns – not where they’re locked up – for the purposes of political redistricting. The decision is a blow […]
Friday, April 15, 2011 | news
When an incarcerated person has paid a debt to society by serving jail or prison time, is released and ready to start a new life, many will have to wait a few years to be considered a real citizen. At least, that is the new reality in Florida, where Governor Rick Scott, State Attorney General […]
Monday, August 25, 2014 | news
Click here to read the temporary restraining order asking a judge to stop water shutoffs.Click here to read the letter to DWSD expressing concerns about the manner of the shutoffs. Click here to see the FOIA documents 9/11/2014 ACLU of Michigan and NAACP LDF Release Video on Detroit Water Crisis DETROIT, MI – Today, civil rights […]
Monday, June 25, 2012 | news
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts speaks to Debo Adegbile, Interim President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Defense Fund, about changes to Florida’s voting laws and the impact they could have on minority voters.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 | case-update
Today, a sharply divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the unfair, unjustified, and racially discriminatory crack cocaine/powder cocaine sentencing ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, does not apply to thousands of individuals who are currently incarcerated pursuant to sentences imposed under the discredited 100-to-1 regime. Seven judges concluded that […]
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 | case-update
We are gravely disappointed that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has dismissed Duane Buck’s appeal and failed to recognize that his death sentence is the unconstitutional product of racial discrimination. As noted by three members of the Court, ‘[t]he record in this case reveals a chronicle of inadequate representation at every stage of the proceedings, the […]
Monday, June 1, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined 385 other organizations, assembled by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, in sending a letter to congressional leadership requesting swift and decisive action in response to recent police killings and other violence against Black people across the country. The letter describes urgently needed reforms […]
