Five years ago, a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and the nation turned its attention to the deeply entrenched racism that infected the Ferguson Police Department, municipal courts and city ...
It is an ugly time in America. The recent horrific acts of domestic terrorism have many Americans rethinking going to the local shopping center, the county fair, or out to dinner, lest we be shot ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 45 civil rights, public interest, labor, faith, and technology organizations in a statement ahead of today’s ...
Source: Blavity We are beyond the days when Black voters had to jump through blatantly racist hoops at the polls, such as reciting the entire constitution, meeting morality character requirements, or proving that our grandfathers ...
Read a PDF of this statement here. On Tuesday, August 6, Voto Latino, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, MoveOn, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Service Employees International Union, Labor Council ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of celebrated novels “Song and Solomon” and Pulitzer Prize winning “Beloved”, as well ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement on the tragic events in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio: “LDF deeply mourns those killed in the ...
