Federal Court Rejects South Carolina’s Restrictive Voter ID Law for November Election; Allows Implementation in 2013

(Washington, D.C) – In a significant voting rights development, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected South Carolina’s request under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to ...

Illegal Trespass Stops

Source: The New York Times

Re “At Home, and Accused of Trespassing” (About New York column, Sept. 28): Jim Dwyer reports that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered a “scoffing dismissal” to the suggestion that innocent people are wrongly charged with ...

A True Education

Source: Huffington Post

I’ve always believed that the sign of a truly educated person is exhibited by their ability to synthesize seemingly unrelated events and come up with a perceptive insight. Allow me to try and add one ...

LDF, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College File Complaint Challenging Admissions Process at NYC Public Specialized High Schools

NYCDOE Never Validated Test; Blacks and Latinos Excluded from Elite Schools  (New York, NY) Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College File Complaint Challenging Admissions Process at NYC Public Specialized High Schools

Source: LDF

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of a broad coalition of New ...

Federal Court Blocks Discriminatory Texas Voter ID Law

Source: LDF

Statement of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which represents the Texas League of Young Voters Education Fund and Black college students at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern Universities who have intervened in the case: ...

Baltimore Public Housing Families Win Settlement in Fair Housing Lawsuit

Agreement Will Continue Successful Baltimore Housing Mobility Program BALTIMORE – Today, African-American families, including current and former residents of Baltimore public housing, filed a proposed settlement in the U.S. District Court of Maryland to resolve ...

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