Dylan Roof Shouldn’t Get the Death Penalty Today is the start of the federal death penalty trial of Dylann S. Roof, the white man accused of murdering black worshipers at the Mother Emanuel church in ...
Appeals Courts are Dismantling Stricter Voter ID Laws In August, a federal district judge in Corpus Christi, Texas, approved a settlement agreed to by state officials that voters without the state-approved ID should be able ...
New Concerns About Voter Intimidation A group called “Vote Protectors” is trying to recruit 3,000 poll watchers in key battleground states. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Sherrilyn Ifill and Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center ...
Winning in court, losing on the ground: uncertainty clouds U.S. voting rights With early voting already under way ahead of the Nov. 8 election, local officials in several states are trying to enforce restrictions that ...
Voting Suppression is the Real Election Scandal “This is an unfortunate part of our history,” Leah Aden, a senior counsel with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, told The Intercept. “People are acutely aware of the ...
The New Civil Rights March: Resisting Alabama’s Photo ID Law Alabama is the home of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, designed to fight voter suppression. But since 2014, Alabama citizens have been required to present ...
POTUS 2016: Voting While Black This week, a look at the African American voting bloc with economist Julianne Malveaux and NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund [President and Director-Counsel] Sherrilyn Ifill. Also, research finds that ...
