Your Search Results

President Obama Criticized For Nominating Mostly Corporate Lawyers to Judicial Posts

In a conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Alliance for Justice president Nan Aron, and retired federal judge Nancy Gertner about professional diversity on federal courts, Sherrilyn Ifill highlighted the importance of racial diversity in particular. In a conversation following the event, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and general counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said […]

President Obama Announces Initiative on Boys and Young Men of Color

Today, in an announcement following a promise made in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama launched “My Brother’s Keeper” a landmark initiative focused on improving opportunities for young men of color by building pathways for success. LDF applauds this critical effort which recognizes the need to close opportunity gaps for young men of color and confront […]

Presence Is Not Inclusion: Race and Ethnic Disparities in Florida’s Vaccine Distribution

Presence is not Inclusion April 19, 2021 Florida has very large racial and ethnic disparities in its administration of COVID-19 vaccines, despite having a significant number of majority-minority counties and a large number of Black and Latinx residents overall. The lack of a state-wide vaccine equity plan allows these disparities to occur and reflects a […]

Prepared to Vote: Past Campaigns

  Prepared to Vote 2015: In 2015, Prepared to Vote continued to focus on supporting LDF’s litigation efforts in areas with confusing and onerous photo ID laws (such as in Texas, South Carolina), areas with recent large changes to access to such IDs (Alabama); and where large changes to polling locations had been recently effected as a […]

Prepared to Vote 2020

Prepared to Vote 2020

Join Prepared to Vote 2020 What You Can Do Now to Prepare to Vote: 1. Check your voter registration – make sure you are registered! 2. Be informed about absentee ballot laws – every state offers some form of mail-in ballots! 3. Sign Up to the be a poll worker – help prevent poll worker shortages & polling location closures! 4. Complete […]

Prepared to Vote

Since its founding in 1940, LDF has been a pioneer in the struggle to secure and protect the voting rights of African-Americans. LDF has been involved in nearly all of the precedent-setting litigation relating to minority voting rights. LDF’s Political Participation Group uses legal, legislative, public education and advocacy strategies to promote the full, equal […]

Prepare to Vote in 2014 in South Carolina

For elections under South Carolina’s Photo ID law, the state is permitted to require registered voters to present certain Photo IDs for in-person voting by regular ballot.  However, under this same law, voters also may vote in-person without one of the accepted Photo IDs by provisional ballot if they have a reason why they do […]

Prepare to Vote in 2013 in South Carolina

For elections beginning in 2013 under South Carolina’s new law, the state is permitted to require registered voters to present certain Photo IDs for in-person voting by regular ballot.  However, under this same law, voters may also vote in-person without one of the accepted Photo IDs by provisional ballot if they have a reason why […]

Prepare to Vote in 2013 in South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina—Today, the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and individual Black college students moved to join a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of South Carolina’s discriminatory voting law. In the lawsuit, South Carolina v. United States, South Carolina asks a federal court in Washington, D.C. to approve, under the Section 5 preclearance provision of […]