This week, Sherrilyn Ifill traveled to Ferguson, Missouri to meet with community leaders, lawyers, and professors. Although slated to talk about the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board, she adjusted the focus to a different ...
More than one year after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an essential provision of the Voting Rights Act, Americans across the country are standing up for the right to vote and calling on Congress ...
Molly Knefel, Why Are Police Using Military-Grade Weapons in High Schools?, Rolling Stone (Oct 8, 2014) Windsor Genova, L.A. schools police to return grenade, launchers, keep armored car and M-16s, Local News FortWorth (Oct 1, ...
Education and Civil Rights Groups Call for an End to Militarization of K-12 School Police UPDATE: After intense public pressure spurred by our letter to the Defense Logistics Agency, schools districts have begun returning ...
In testimony submitted today to a Senate committee reviewing militarization of state and local law enforcement, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) called for structural reforms to ensure police accountability and the ...
LDF today announced that John Paul Schnapper-Casteras has joined the organization as Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy. In this newly created role, Schnapper-Casteras, known as JP, will work with LDF attorneys on ...
The second week of testimony begins today in the voter ID trial in United States v. Texas, a federal challenge to Texas’s discriminatory photo ID law, Senate Bill 14. In this case with important national ...
