Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced that Christina Swarns has been appointed its permanent Director of Litigation. For the past year, Ms. Swarns has served as LDF’s Interim Litigation Director ...
In a special edition of the Kentucky Courier-Journal, Jin Hee Lee writes on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act that “The legacy of the Civil Rights Act and the civil rights movement, rests with all ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court decision granting private businesses an unprecedented religious exemption from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employee health plans include coverage for FDA-approved contraceptives. ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund applauds today’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, holding that the police may not conduct a warrantless search of digital information contained on a cell phone that is seized ...
Shelby County v. Holder One-Year Anniversary Media Highlights: Ifill and Montgomery are featured in Montgomery Adviser article on the Senate Judiciary Hearing Ryan Haygood argues in the Houston Chronicle that “States must be held accountable for ...
** Watch testimony replay here ** Click here for a link to Ifill’s prepared testimony. (New York, NY)–On the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, ...
