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Poll Site Changes and Voter Access: Why Where We Vote Matters

Where We Vote Matters How Poll Site Changes Impact Voters – And What To Do About Them By Leigh Logan Former LDF Programs Associate Schools. VFW halls. Grocery stores. Sports arenas. Retirement centers. These diverse locations all have a connecting thread: they’ve been used as election poll sites in counties throughout the United States. Polling […]

Politics365: NAACP [LDF] Launches 2011 Redistricting Project

Through educational efforts, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund launched a website and campaign geared toward encouraging minority citizens to get involved in their local redistricting processes. 2011 is the year for state legislatures to redraw district lines based upon the 2010 United States Census Bureau totals.   According to Redrawing the Lines:   How can […]

Political Participation

Since its founding in 1940, the Legal Defense Fund has been a pioneer in the struggle to secure and protect the voting rights of Black Americans. LDF has been involved in nearly all of the precedent-setting litigation relating to minority voting rights. LDF’s political participation group uses legal, legislative, public education, and advocacy strategies to […]

Politic365: New York Republicans Challenge Ban on Gerrymandering

New York’s Former Governor David Paterson signed into law groundbreaking legislation that corrects the ills of the redistricting process concerning the counting of prisoners. The legislation signed by Paterson places into law a revamped process for counting prisoners in their home districts instead of districts where the prison or housing unit is located. Recently, nine […]

Policy Counsel

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process […]

Policing Reform Campaign

  George Floyd’s life was stolen, like so many before him, by a pattern of violence committed by law enforcement officials that has resulted in the loss of countless Black lives stretching back decades.  It cannot go on like this. Black Americans have endured years upon years of police violence and cried out for justice […]

Policies Proposed, Change Demanded to End ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’

At a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday about ending the ‘school-to-prison pipeline,’ leaders in the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice said they expect to provide guidance to schools about school discipline policies, a measure that would add to the growing list of actions the current administration has taken in this arena. When pressed, Melodee Hanes, acting administrator […]

Police Union Contract Toolkit

Download the Police Union Contract Toolkit here. Police union contracts frequently contain provisions that shield officers from discipline and create barriers to the timely, thorough investigation of police misconduct complaints. This toolkit will help guide the public through the process of inquiring about the status of police union contracts in their localities, with the goal […]

Police in Schools are Not the Answer to the Newtown Shooting

Police in schools ‘not the answer,’ says LDF

A coalition of advocacy groups including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is pushing back against the idea of upping the number of armed police officers in schools, a suggestion being considered by the White House in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting tragedy. The groups – which include the Advancement Project, the Dignity in Schools Campaign […]