Today, a federal judge struck down Florida’s suppressive voting law, S.B. 90, ruling that it violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund sent a letter to the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury regarding the State of Tennessee’s planned takeover of the town of Mason, a small, majority-Black town 40 miles from ...
In advance of Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Joel Motley, son of former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ...
Recently, the Southern District Court of Texas ruled against Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) students, recent graduates, and a PVAMU student and alumni organization, who argued that Waller County violated the U.S. Constitution and Section ...
March 30, 2022 – Today, the Louisiana legislature voted to overturn Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto of the Congressional map passed earlier this year, which failed to add a second majority-Black district. In response, the ...
Last night, state lawmakers in Connecticut passed out of committee Senate Bill 471 (“S.B. 471”), a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks to expand access to the freedom to vote and strengthen voter protections for ...
Today, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, bringing to a conclusion a century-long and multigenerational campaign to employ the federal government’s significant powers against lynching—a distinctly American form of anti-Black violence ...
