Ryan Haygood, LDF Director of the Political Participation Group, spoke at the 103rd National NAACP Annual Convention on July 11, 2012 on protecting the voting rights of minorities in upcoming elections. You can see his ...
(New York, NY) A national class action lawsuit filed today charges that top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African American store management employees for the sake of its “brand ...
(New York, NY) Today, the United States Supreme Court banned the imposition of mandatory life without parole sentences for children who were 17 or younger at the time of their crimes. In Miller v. Alabama, ...
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts speaks to Debo Adegbile, Interim President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Defense Fund, about changes to Florida’s voting laws and the impact they could have on minority voters.
(Washington, DC) The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon to confirm Paul Watford to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit ...
(New York, NY) Today, for the second time in the past year, a federal court in Washington, D.C. upheld the constitutionality of the heart of the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. The case, Shelby ...
(New Orleans, LA) – Yesterday, voting rights advocates won an important legal victory that will ensure that Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients—the state’s poorest and most marginalized residents—will be offered an opportunity to register to ...
