The First Black President Faced Great Expectations. What Will Be Obama’s Legacy on Race? What did the election of America’s first black president mean for the United States? And how did President Obama’s policies and ...
Death by Zip Code Tim Samuels travels to Ashurst Bar, Alabama to see the effects of a hazardous waste dump on the low-income families living nearby. LDF, alongside Earthjustice, represents the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization (ABSCO) in its Title ...
Voting rights are under siege in a way that hasn’t been seen in more than a generation. But these coordinated attacks follow a historic pattern: Laws that expanded the franchise during Reconstruction and after the ...
The DOJ’s new report on Chicago makes a pretty thorough case that the city’s police department as a whole—rather than a few bad-apple officers—needs an overhaul. But Monique Dixon, deputy director of policy and senior ...
“It just completely changes the calculus,” said Deuel Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. “These discriminatory changes can go into effect and stay in effect for years, while someone has ...
Heed Coretta Scott King’s warning on Sessions Civil rights laws — from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Lily Ledbetter Equal Pay Act of 2009 — have been instrumental in bending the arc ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill joins the first episode of Diane Rehm’s podcast for a lengthy conversation on the confirmation hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions as he seeks to be the Attorney General of ...
