Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, June 8, 2018 | director-counsels
Sherrilyn Ifill served as the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as President and Director-Counsel Emeritus. Ifill, the second woman to ever lead LDF, provided visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history. Ifill […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Sherrilyn Ifill served as the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 2013 to 2022, and currently serves as President and Director-Counsel Emeritus. Ifill, the second woman to ever lead LDF, provided visionary and transformational leadership during one of the most consequential and intense moments in our nation’s history. Ifill […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | staff
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 9: Conservatives should embrace Jim Sensenbrenner’s efforts to update the Voting Rights Act by Armstrong Williams of Amsterdam News First enacted in 1965, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) prohibited discriminatory voting practices that had been used to deny people, especially people of color, their constitutional right to vote. This landmark law had wide bipartisan support […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 8: The Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Monday that it would hold a hearing on voting rights on the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder. The hearing is entitled, “The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder.” It will be […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 7: Since the Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which left millions of Americans without the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act’s preclearance process, civil society organizations all around the country have banded together in calling on Congress to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act. The VRAA strengthens, updates, and modernizes the Voting […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 6: New Report by Civil and Human Rights Coalition Details Recent Voting Discrimination Report Contains Almost 150 Violations against Voters of Color, Shows Persistent Modern-Day Discrimination across the Country The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights today released a new report, The Persistent Challenge of Voting Discrimination, which details nearly 150 recent […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | page
Countdown Day 5: On One-Year Anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder Decision, Ifill to Urge Passage of Bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act (New York, NY)–On the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the leader of the civil rights organization that litigated the case before the […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | post
Countdown Day 22: The Voting Rights Amendment Act is a critical piece of legislation that was proposed by a bipartisan group of Members of Congress in response to the United States Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. Here is a list of the top ten things you should know about the VRAA: […]
