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Case Heads to Supreme Court After Divided Three-Judge Panel Overturns Louisiana Congressional Map with Two Majority-Black Districts

CONTACT: Legal Defense Fund, media@naacpldf.org ACLU National, media@aclu.org SHREVEPORT, La. – Today, a group of Black voters and civic organizations filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after a divided panel of three federal court judges overturned Louisiana’s congressional map that had two majority Black districts last night. The court in Callais […]

Case Brought by LDF and the Legal Aid Society Challenging Unlawful and Discriminatory Policing by the NYPD Moves Towards Trial

A federal court in New York rejected attempts by New York City and the New York City Housing Authority (“NYCHA”) to prevent a case challenging the unlawful stops and arrests of public housing residents and guests for trespassing from proceeding to trial. Noting that the case arises in the context of  “NYPD’s long history of biased stop, […]

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Carlton Mayers Highlights LDF’s Work in Policing Reform in The Guardian

NAACP Considers Role Alongside Black Lives Matter at Annual Convention Often, NAACP members and leaders frame their efforts as the real world actuation of BLM’s justifiable outrage. Carlton Mayers, policy counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Policing Reform Campaign, said activists making noise is critical to keep national attention on issues of racial injustice. […]

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Cara McClellan

Cara McClellan is Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund where she works primarily on increasing equitable access to education and ending the criminalization of Black people. Cara is lead counsel in I.S. v. Binghamton School District, a lawsuit challenging the discriminatory strip search of four middle school Black and Latina girls […]

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