This week, Texas Appleseed, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and other Texas-based organizations sent a letter to the McKinney Independent School District (ISD) asking that it implement training for the McKinney Police Department officers who work ...
Yesterday, the Colorado Court of Appeals unanimously declared that a Colorado bakery’s refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples violates Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). This decision affirmed the May 2014 finding of the Colorado ...
In 50 years into the Voting Rights Act, there’s still work to do, LDF attorney Leah Aden discusses LDF’s efforts to use Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and other advocacy tools to challenge felon ...
School Resource Officers in Dallas Suburb Where Officer Used Extreme Force at Pool Party Found to Receive No Special Training in Working with Children AUSTIN, TEXAS – A new data analysis shows that a Dallas ...
Residents of Ferguson, Missouri and other communities across the country have spent the past several days observing the one-year anniversary of the police-killing of Michael Brown, Jr., an unarmed African-American teenager. These overwhelmingly peaceful commemorations ...
(New York, NY) – The right to vote is at the core of our democratic values. Fifty years ago today, our nation took a historic step forward to increase the right to vote by establishing ...
On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. This historic moment was due in no small part to the efforts of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational ...
