Just days after the 46th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Georgia attorney Wayne Kendall filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Fayette County, Georgia’s at-large ...
A statement by the ACLU of Michigan, Detroit Branch NAACP, the Michigan State Conference NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), and the national ACLU. The ACLU, NAACP and NAACP Legal Defense and ...
(Washington, DC) — LDF commends Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder on their announcement of the “Supportive School Discipline Initiative”. This is a collaboration between the Department of Education and Department ...
(New Orleans, LA) – Today, a federal court rejected the State of Louisiana’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit regarding the State’s failure to offer public assistance recipients the opportunity to register vote. The court’s ruling ...
What do President Barack Obama, USAG Eric Holder, EEOC chair Jackie Berrien, and Williams & Connolly’s David Kendall have in common? At some point, they were all affiliated with the NAACP LDF (Legal Defense and ...
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rebuffed a request to reconsider its prior ruling upholding the constitutionality of the admissions program utilized by the University of Texas at Austin (UT ...
California Assemblymember Mike Davis on the passage of AB 420 in the California State Assembly last week, a bill that seeks to end prison-based gerrymandering in California. This important legislation will help bring California’s redistricting ...
