NAACP Considers Role Alongside Black Lives Matter at Annual Convention Often, NAACP members and leaders frame their efforts as the real world actuation of BLM’s justifiable outrage. Carlton Mayers, policy counsel for the NAACP Legal ...
Voter ID Rulings Could Impact Alabama “It is important that now two federal appellate courts … are saying states have gone way too far with these kinds of restrictions on voting,” said Deuel Ross with ...
After Freddie Gray: Looking to the Future Last year as charges were announced against six Baltimore police officers for their role in the arrest and fatal injuries sustained by Freddie Gray, it seemed to many ...
How plaintiffs attorneys believe recent voter ID court decisions affect case in Alabama “We actually expect this case to be, unfortunately, resolved later than this election,” says [Lilly Zaragoza, LDF John Payton Appellate and Supreme ...
Democrats Are Spotlighting A Big Education Problem Pushing Kids Out of School Monique Dixon, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund deputy policy director and senior counsel, called the Democratic platform encouraging. “What we know is that ...
Brown Decision’s Legacy Should Include White Children Everyone knows that the court in Brown declared racially segregated education unconstitutional. But the court also squarely identified segregation as an insidious form of racial subordination. The high ...
“[President and Director-Counsel] of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill, joins MSNBC’s Brian Williams to discuss the week of police involved shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. They also discuss the fatal shooting of five police officers ...
