‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds

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‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds   New toolkit from NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Opportunity Institute and the Dignity in Schools Campaign gives communities resources to impact their schools No Child ...

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments in Texas Voting Rights and Racial Gerrymandering Case

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Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Abbott v. Perez about whether to affirm a three-judge court’s decisions that Texas’s congressional and state legislative redistricting maps, implemented in 2013, unlawfully furthered and maintained the purposeful ...

Three African American Racial Justice Leaders Respond to Starbucks Effort to End Bias In Its Company

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NEW YORK, NY –  Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Heather McGhee, president of Demos released a statement today regarding ...

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment

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LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment  Leading Legal Scholars, Historians, and Civil Rights Advocates Reflect on the Importance of the Amendment Ratified 150 Years Ago The ...

Advocates for Civil and Reproductive Rights Call for Vitter’s Withdrawal

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A coalition of leaders in the reproductive rights and civil rights fields called today for the withdrawal of Wendy Vitter’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. ...

LDF Statement on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Plan to Restore Voting Rights to People with Felony Convictions

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On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order giving consideration for a conditional pardon to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who are on parole. Leah Aden, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Anti-Discrimination Training for Starbucks Employees on NPR

By: Noel King Source: NPR     NPR’s Noel King talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who is among the experts advising Starbucks on their new ...

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