After Daniel Pantaleo — an NYPD officer sworn to serve and protect New Yorkers — was filmed using a chokehold on Staten Island resident Eric Garner, who later died, new video surfaces of a separate violent arrest ...
How Detroit Is Making Water A Racial Hot Button Detroit is in the middle of a water crisis that has captured the nation’s attention. Thousands of Detroit residents may have their water turned off over past ...
State legislatures in the past few years have made more than 250 attempts to pass laws to roll back voting rights and 22 states have approved such laws, NAACP panelists said Tuesday, accusing Republicans of ...
Staten Island resident, Eric Garner, died Thursday after a NYPD officer subdued him with a chokehold. Cell phone footage captured at the scene of the tragic event shows Garner screaming that he could not breathe ...
In a Letter-To-The-Editor published in The New York Times titled “Race and Voting Rights,” Ryan P. Haygood, the Director of LDF’s Political Participation group sets the record straight: Race and Voting Rights To the Editor: Re “Mistrust ...
This month the Columbia Law School magazine features a story about former federal Judge U.W. Clemon, a graduate of their class of 1968. Judge Clemon, who stepped down from the federal bench after a 30 year judicial career, is ...
In Reuters “The Great Debate,” Janai Nelson, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, argues “swift and dauntless action is needed in both houses of Congress, however, to ensure that voting remains an equal opportunity exercise for all Americans, ...
