(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 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 ...
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 ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Judge Robert Wilkins to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Judge Wilkins is one of ...
Debo Adegbile is an excellent choice to be the next Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. He is eminently qualified. For years, Debo Adegbile has worked tirelessly to defend the American promise of equality for ...
Schools Around the Nation Now Have Guiding Principles to Help Improve School Climate and School Discipline Today, for the first time, the United States Departments of Education and Justice jointly released guidance that outlines civil ...
In two op-eds this week for TheRoot.com and The Baltimore Sun, Sherrilyn Ifill focuses attention on real outrages — policy choices and structural inequalities that disproportionately impede the growth of black communities around the country. In ...
