LDF Applauds the DC Council’s Introduction of a Proposed Resolution on WMATA’s Criminal Records Policy

In January 2014, DC Councilwoman Muriel Bowser introduced a Proposed Resolution that calls on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”) to revise its criminal records policy.  In the Proposed Resolution, Councilwoman Bowser, who also ...

Black History Month Spotlight: Robert L. Carter

“As I take the measure of my life and experience, it is, at a personal level, a story of struggle and triumph. With the support of family and community, I overcame the limits of racial ...

LDF Challenges Method of Electing Judges to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s Judicial District Court

A Black Judge Has Never Been Elected to Serve in Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana— LDF and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U. S. ...

It’s Long Past Time to End the Death Penalty

Since its inception, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has opposed the institution of capital punishment. Whether it is because the death penalty is mired in racial bias and disproportionality, or because almost ...

Columbia Law and Lawyers From Around the World Honor Greenberg

(Jack Greenberg and his wife Debbie are in the top left picture.) On Friday, January 24, Columbia Law School hosted a conference honoring Jack Greenberg’s indelible influence on the civil rights bar. Greenberg is the ...

Haygood, Ifill talk voting, economic justice, MLK on MSNBC shows

Haygood and Ifill Talk About Voting, MLK and Economic Justice on MSNBC On Friday, Ryan Haygood, Director of the Political Participation Group, talked with Chris Matthews on Hardball about Voter ID laws. “Voter ID laws ...

Congress’s Swift, Bipartisan Effort Responds to Supreme Court’s Shelby vs. Holder Decision

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) commends the Members of Congress who today, in a strong bipartisan showing, introduced the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014. The introduction of this bill—just seven ...

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