It’s Time for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19

May 19, 2020

It’s Time to for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19 April 24, 2020 America’s ability to limit the death and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 depends on dramatically ramping up testing for the coronavirus – a reality that the President and United States Congress acknowledge with the passage and signing of the most recent coronavirus relief bill that includes $25 billion to expand testing. We must be able to identify who has the disease and then isolate them, if they are not seriously ill, or treat them, if they are. Testing and treatment are already challenging for people

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The Women of Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 2020

The Girls who Shaped Brown v. Board of Education Their Untold Stories and the Sacrifices that Made Today’s Fight for Educational Equity Possible By Cara McClellan LDF Assistant Counsel Ethel Brown was born with a heart condition. But, because she was Black, she had no choice but to travel 20 miles each day to attend Howard High School, the only public high school in the state of Delaware that admitted Black students in 1950. Her mother, concerned about Ethel’s ability to make the trip, petitioned the school board to allow Ethel to attend the nearby Claymont High School, which was reserved

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How the CARES Act is Helping America

May 5, 2020

Lisa Cylar Barrett Director of Policy   How the CARES Act is Helping Americans And What Must Be Done to Achieve Comprehensive COVID-19 Relief It can’t be said enough — we are living in unprecedented times where the entire world has been impacted by a virus for which there is currently no cure and no vaccine. The catastrophic health and economic impacts of the virus necessitate significant investment to support the American people and the economy. Furthermore, the crisis has cast a bright light on the structural inequalities and racism embedded in our society, which has resulted in Black people

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LDF Blog: When Power is Divorced from Rule of Law (WI 2020 Primary Election)

April 10, 2020

When Power Is Divorced From Rule Of Law The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wisconsin Election Decision Should Serve as a Warning to Us All By Sam Spital LDF Director of Litigation As LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill stated in this powerful piece: “We must never forget the images we saw in Wisconsin this week.” Those images showed thousands of “mask-wearing Americans standing in staggered lines extended over city blocks” as they risked their safety to exercise their fundamental right to vote in the State’s spring election. These hazardous lines were concentrated in Milwaukee, which reduced its number of polling locations from 180

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Six of the Women Behind Brown v. Board of Education

May 8, 2019

The Case that Changed America Six of the Women Behind Brown v. Board of Education Learn More About Brown v. Board Throughout LDF’s history, women have been the lifeblood animating our efforts to achieve racial justice. From our brilliant attorneys and intrepid organizers to our innovative policy experts and courageous clients, LDF’s work has always relied on the ingenuity and persistence of extraordinary women. Few cases better exemplify this tradition than Brown v. Board of Education, which rendered the doctrine of “separate but equal unconstitutional LDF celebrates the women whose invaluable contributions made that triumph possible. Constance Baker Motley After working

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If Brown v. Board is Not Sacred, What is?

May 8, 2019

If Brown v. Board is Not Sacred, What is? By Lisa Cylar Barrett, Policy Director at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Since the Supreme Court’s momentous decision in Brown v. Board of Education 65 years ago, there has been universal consensus within the legal community that the opinion striking down de jure segregation in our schools was correctly decided. As the most important civil rights ruling in our nation’s history, it has been undebatable, affirmed time and again by judicial nominees, attorneys, scholars, and politicians on both sides of the aisle. That is, until the Trump Administration.

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