LDF and Earthjustice Urge Alabama Environmental Agency to Oppose Landfill Operation in Historic Black Community

Over the nearly 15 years since the Stone’s Throw Landfill opened in Tallassee (in Tallapoosa County), Alabama, Ashurst Bar/Smith residents—many of whom can trace their family land ownership back to the early 1800s—have complained that ...

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Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos: What You Need to Know

On November 23, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist and education advocate from Michigan, will be his nominee for Secretary of Education. The Department of Education’s mission “is to promote ...

Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos: What You Need to Know

   On November 23, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist and education advocate from Michigan, will be his nominee for Secretary of Education.             The Department of Education’s mission “is ...

The Fight Continues to Strike Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law, Beyond November’s Election

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a brief in the Texas district court, contending that SB 14, the nation’s strictest photo ID law—which an appellate court already determined disproportionately and discriminatorily impacts Black and ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Major Hair Discrimination Case, EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions

On November 10, 2016, LDF filed an amicus brief in EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions, in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We were joined by the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center and ...

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