Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | page
Black Justice, Black Joy Dreaming Bigger in the Fight for Civil Rights By Lindsey Norward Senior Staff Writer For weeks following the horrific murder of George Floyd in May 2020, protesters took to the streets, their hands clasped onto signs as their feet marched along the pavement. Brimming with passion and energy, the sounds of […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | news
“As I take the measure of my life and experience, it is, at a personal level, a story of struggle and triumph. With the support of family and community, I overcame the limits of racial exclusion, discrimination, and poverty to become a leading civil rights lawyer and ultimately a federal judge. Brown v. Board sits […]
Thursday, February 13, 2014 | news
LDF celebrates the life and work of Jean Fairfax, one of the unsung heroines of civil rights movement. A great humanitarian, organizer, strategist and activist, Mrs. Fairfax served as the Director of Community Services at LDF from the 1960s through 1984, where she was instrumental in organizing among black families and parents in school desegregation cases. […]
Thursday, February 4, 2016 | news
Milestones in LDF’s Fight for Voter Equality In this first “Throwback Thursday” (#tbt) installment of our “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now” series for Black History Month 2016, we will take a look at two voting rights milestones in the LDF decades-long fight for voting rights and political participation nationwide. Then: Smith v. […]
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 | page
HAIR DISCRIMINATION Frequently Asked Questions What is Hair Discrimination? Hair discrimination is rooted in systemic racism, and often helps preserve white spaces. Policies that further hair discrimination advance white Anglo-Saxon Protestant cultural norms as the default norms to which everyone should adhere. Hair and grooming policies that prohibit natural hairstyles — like afros, braids, bantu […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | news
LaShonn Tomlinson always had dreams of becoming a Chicago firefighter, but while working at Amtrak’s Union Station storage yard, those dreams often passed him by. “For years, I would see the new candidates running down Canal Street, and I’d be wondering when it would be my turn,” said Tomlinson, 38. “But I never got the […]
Thursday, October 19, 2023 | case-issue
Black Farmers FAQ The history of discrimination against Black farmers and policy initiatives to remedy these inequities. Black farmers have long faced systemic discrimination by public and private institutions and barriers to economic mobility. Inequities in the administration of government farm programs and discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have had a devastating impact […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), O’Melveny & Myers LLP, and longtime Arkansas civil rights attorney, Arkie Byrd, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Christian Ministerial Alliance, and individual voters, Patricia Brewer, Carolyn Briggs, Lynette Brown, and Mable Bynum, challenging Arkansas’s 2021 congressional redistricting. Plaintiffs allege that the redistricting violates the Fourteenth and […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | news
“When we look at whose schools are policed and which students have to go through metal detectors, get pad-downs, get drug-searched on a routine basis, it’s our students of color and our communities of color across this country,” said Matthew Cregor, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. “The Newtown, Connecticut, massacre has led […]
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, ACLU, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Troi Barnes, LDF, media@ldf.org. 929-736-1528 A federal court has ruled after a full trial that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map not only violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act but was enacted by the Alabama Legislature with racially discriminatory intent. This ruling establishes that the Alabama congressional map must include […]
