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, ...
In an op-ed for The Houston Chronicle, Ryan Haygood reflects on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder and calls on Congress to swiftly pass the Voting ...
Freedom Summer had just begun, and hundreds of white, Northern college students had volunteered to do civil rights work in Mississippi as news broke that three men—Michael “Mickey” Schwerner, a 24-year-old full-time activist for the Congress ...
Stop-and-Frisk. Voter ID laws. Jim Crow Redux. Reparations. 2014 has more similarities to 1964 than we care to admit. We can’t forge ahead without looking back at a nation birthed in genocide and slavery, and ...
Amid outrage over the stabbing of two children in a public-housing elevator, Jin Hee Lee calls for solutions that go beyond increased policing or even surveillance cameras to include partnering with NYCHA residents themselves. ...
Leah Aden, Assistant Counsel of the Political Participation Group, writes for American Constitution Society’s blog about the historic district-based voting that recently took place in Fayette County, Georgia for the first time in the county’s 191-year history. ...
Ria Tabacco Mar talks to American Urban Radio Network about our work ending unfair background checks. On behalf of our client, Beverly Harrison — a 58-year-old grandmother unfairly denied a job as a school crossing guard ...
