Friday, April 27, 2018 | news
‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds New toolkit from NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Opportunity Institute and the Dignity in Schools Campaign gives communities resources to impact their schools No Child Left Behind was widely criticized for leaving huge numbers of children behind and further marginalizing low-income communities and communities of […]
Thursday, August 1, 2013 | news
In today’s New York Times, Charles Ogletree Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard, has penned a powerful op-ed about Duane Buck and the deeply unfair and unconstitutional biases that plagued his sentencing hearing. “Nearly 50 years after the end of Jim Crow, African-Americans are still facing execution because of their race…There is no […]
Friday, September 30, 2011 | news
Nearly 40 years ago, a group of N.C. blacks met in Charlotte to take stock of where African-Americans were statewide in education, housing and jobs. Despite the 1960s civil rights victories, blacks still lived in a segregated world – many clustered in public housing. Their schools were still largely separate and ill-equipped. The rise of […]
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | news
Out of the Ferguson crisis, US News and World Report list, “5 Things Civil Rights Groups Want From Ferguson,” a number of issues which civil rights organizations hope to focus debate as events unfold in Ferguson and reverberate throughout the country. “Activists are pointing to structures in Ferguson’s local political system that have bred […]
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 | news
Gilbert King’s riveting account of Thurgood Marshall and other LDF attorneys efforts to obtain justice for four African Americans wrongly accused of rape in 1949 Florida was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The Pulitzer Prize Board described Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, as “a richly detailed […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has been called the law firm for black America. Once run by Thurgood Marshall, the group played a major role in desegregating public schools and fighting restrictions at the ballot box. Now, the Legal Defense Fund is preparing for a new leader — just as the Supreme Court considers cases […]
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | news
Today, lead-sponsors Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin and Senator Raphael Warnock reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) in the U.S. Senate, a piece of legislation that will strengthen voting rights for all Americans and protect voters from discrimination. Among many key provisions, the VRAA will provide voters with necessary tools to […]
