Last night, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, completing a more than 100-year-long, multi-generational campaign to enlist the significant powers of the federal government against a distinctly American form of ...
Leading civil rights organizations issued the following joint statement to reflect on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday and to urge Congress to remain focused on protecting the fundamental right to vote for the American people: ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, Latino Justice PRLDEF, and Ballard Spahr LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of Black, Latino, and Asian American organizations in support ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. submitted written testimony to the Florida House of Representatives opposing H.B. 7061, a harmful elections bill that would make several harmful changes to Florida’s elections laws ...
Today, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia enjoined revisions to the admissions process for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) that created more equal access for Black, ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., with co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Fred Banks, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in a redistricting case ...
Today, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court to fill the upcoming vacancy due to the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, announcing the first nomination of ...
