Life Sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal

(New York, NY) — Today, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office announced that it will not seek another death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal.  Pennsylvania law now requires Mr. Abu-Jamal to be sentenced to life imprisonment without ...

Mother Jones: NAACP Decries “James Crow Esq.”

State-level voting restrictions are an attempt to suppress the minority vote and prevent them from exercising political influence, according to a report released by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Monday. “Jim Crow ...

AP: NAACP Wants New Voting Laws Struck Down

The NAACP has been collecting information about early voting advocacy by black churches in Florida, hoping to convince the Justice Department to strike down a slew of new state voting laws it claims are intended ...

LDF Celebrates 25th Annual Gala Award Dinner

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 25th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) last night in New York City.  More than 700 guests were in attendance.  The event raised nearly $2.5 ...

National Housing Law Project Conference Remarks by John Payton

Yesterday was the official dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington.  Some of you may have snuck away from this conference to be there.  I was there.  It was inspiring because the ...

NYT Ltr. to the Editor: A New Way to Achieve Civil Rights?

Richard Thompson Ford (“Moving Beyond Civil Rights,” Op-Ed, Oct. 28) asserts that “civil rights have barely made a dent in today’s most severe and persistent social injustices” and suggests that part of the problem is ...

Black firefighter hopefuls who sued 16 years ago turn out for physical testing

LaShonn Tomlinson always had dreams of becoming a Chicago firefighter, but while working at Amtrak’s Union Station storage yard, those dreams often passed him by. “For years, I would see the new candidates running down ...

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