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Marriage Equality

LDF, Marriage Equality, and Loving v. Virginia The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) has long argued that the discriminatory history of racial restrictions on the right to marry illustrate how the exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from marriage perpetuates and enforces a caste system that violates our constitutional guarantees of freedom and equality. […]

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, […]

Marcia Tuckett

Marcia Tuckett

Manning Marable: Our Great Scholar-Activist

“Instead of leadership from above, democracy from below.”- Dr. Manning Marable A few weeks ago, I had dinner with Dr. Manning Marable and his wife, Leith Mullings, whose voluminous books, papers and op-ed columns comprise a critical collection of today’s discourse on race in America. We had just completed a talk at the Hue-Man Bookstore […]

Managing Director, Development

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 […]

Making Real the Promises of Our Democracy: LDF’s Janai Nelson Delivers MLK Day Speech in Bloomington, Indiana

  It’s clear that Bloomington takes very seriously the idea that MLK Day is “a day on—not a day off.” For over two decades, you’ve held this ceremony as a way of symbolizing your commitment to the principles for which Dr. King lived and died. And for many years, many of you impressively have spent […]

Making a Voting Plan that Works for You: Voters Across the South Share Their Plans to Cast Their Ballots

The Importance of Making a Voting Plan that Works for You Voters Across the South Share Their Plans to Cast Their Ballots By Gianna Baez Social Media Strategist Early voting is already underway in most states across the nation. In fact, there are record turnout rates for early voting in states like Georgia, and, nationwide, 63 […]

Magner v. Gallagher

LDF filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in the United States Supreme Court in Magner v. Gallagher.  In Magner, a group of private landlords of low-income housing challenged the City of St. Paul’s practice of selectively targeting them for heightened housing code enforcement.  The plaintiffs alleged that this practice increased the costs of […]