Today, the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted 9-4 to grant award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure in connection with her appointment as the Knight Foundation Chair in Race ...
Today, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) Policy Counsel Steven Lance testified before the South Carolina House Legislative Oversight Committee’s Ad Hoc Committee – State Election Commission regarding the maintenance of voter rolls. ...
Yesterday, Michael Thurmond, Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, announced that the County’s water disconnection moratorium would be extended until September 1, 2021. On April 20, 2021, DeKalb County announced its plan to lift ...
We appreciate the efforts of lawmakers leading the negotiations around the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We were heartened to see the U.S. House of Representatives pass a strong version of the bill last ...
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced today to 22.5 years in prison for second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for killing George Floyd in May 2020. In response, NAACP Legal Defense ...
Plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), co-counsel Covington & Burling, LLP and veteran civil rights lawyer, Geraldine Sumter of Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A. have reached a settlement in ...
Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it is suing the state of Georgia over S.B. 202, its recently-passed voter suppression law. The DOJ is charging the state with violating Section 2 of ...
