LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson appeared on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams to discuss the fatal police-involved shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina. His death set off a wave of protests ...
These people had their voting rights restored and then yanked away again Leah Aden, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, says that after 2008, people of color participated in the electoral process in ...
Polling Places Become Battleground In U.S. Voting Rights Fight While polling place cutbacks are on the rise across the country, including in some Democratic-run areas, the South’s history of racial discrimination has made the region ...
Restore Voting Rights for Low-level Felons in California In the United States today, 13% of all black men are denied the right to vote because they have been convicted of a felony. Felon disfranchisement, as ...
Without Conservative Supreme Court Majority, Voter-Law Challengers Make Gains Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a recent interview that trials, with expert witnesses and voluminous records, were instrumental ...
UMB-NAACP Legal Defense Fund Town Hall on Policing Reform in Baltimore Last night, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) co-sponsored a community town hall on policing reform with the Honorable Elijah E. Cummings ...
The Track to Ending Two Baltimores Since the release of the Department of Justice’s report finding that the Baltimore Police Department unconstitutionally stops and arrests African Americans, a great deal of attention has been paid ...
