This week marks what would have been the 105th birthday of LDF founder Thurgood Marshall. He was LDF’s first President and Director-Counsel and led the organization through some of its most important seminal cases. Thurgood ...
Note: Click here to review a running, and still growing, list of state, county, and local level responses to the decision, including jurisdictions’ intentions to implement new discriminatory voting changes in the wake of the decision. The NAACP ...
Natasha M. Korgaonkar, NAACP LDF Assistant Counsel, discusses in an op ed the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which struck a key provision of Voting Rights Act. Ms. Korgaonkar explains that the heart of the ...
Leah C. Aden, NAACP LDF Fried Frank Fellow in the Political Participation Group, shines light on the adverse impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which struck at the very heart ...
In response to the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision striking a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill calls on American citizens and the congress to restore the “crown jewel” ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, appeared on Andrea Mitchell Reports and the PBS Newshour today to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, which struck down a key provision of ...
LDF’s Damon Hewitt and Elise Boddie discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas on All in with Chris Hayes and SCOTUSblog. In Fisher, the majority reconfirmed the educational benefits of diversity, ruling that universities can ...
