Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | news
Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund When LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks came to light and spread over the Internet like wildfire, the NBA acted quickly to ban him from the organization. We applaud the NBA’s forceful disavowal of Sterling’s ugly remarks. But it appears that, […]
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | news
Confronted by the Painful Relationship Between People of Color and the Police Entrusted to Serve Us Four years ago, on the fourth day of the fourth month of the year, Walter Scott was killed by North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager. The entire nation turned to North Charleston as footage of the horrific shooting forced […]
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | news
On March 3rd, 2020, LDF’s Director of State Advocacy and Deputy Director of Policy, Monique Dixon, testified before the Maryland House of Delegates on the need to expand House Bill 1221. HB 1221 would amend the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) to permit the release of records relating to formal police misconduct complaints under certain […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | news
LDF’s Director of Policy Todd Cox Testifies at EEOC Hearing Earlier today, LDF Policy Director Todd Cox testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. The Subcommittee was holding a hearing on the operations of the United States Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which has played a pivotal […]
Monday, March 6, 2017 | news
A federal lawsuit challenging Alabama’s requirement that voters present photo identification before they can cast a ballot was filed in 2015 on behalf of the Alabama NAACP and Greater Birmingham Ministries. The lawsuit alleges the 2011 photo ID law is racially discriminatory, violating the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A trial […]
Thursday, March 16, 2017 | news
The plaintiffs in the Sheff v. O’Neill school desegregation case are more frustrated than anyone that a significant number of Hartford students of color remain in highly segregated, low-performing schools. We are now more than two decades past the Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that, as a result of racial and ethnic isolation in Hartford’s schools, […]
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 | news
Recent months have witnessed a steady stream of stories about state legislatures attempting to attack or outright overturn the will of state voters—from discriminatory voter ID laws to the naked power grabs we’ve seen from legislators in Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, and elsewhere. While attacks on the right to vote rightfully elicit outrage and media coverage, far less attention […]
Thursday, November 17, 2016 | news
‘Disturbing’ — Civil rights groups take on Facebook over ad discrimination When ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed advertisers to target or exclude users by their “ethnic affinity,” the social network at first doubled down on defending the practice. “We are committed to providing people with quality ad experiences, which includes helping people see messages that […]
Friday, May 5, 2017 | news
Justice delayed is justice denied. For too long, that’s been the case in Harris County, where people languish behind bars for weeks and months awaiting trial for minor, nonviolent misdemeanors because they cannot afford bail. Enough is enough. The time has come for Harris County to leave its wealth-based bail system in the past, take […]
Friday, March 15, 2019 | news
In 2010, District Attorney Doug Evans tried to convict Curtis Flowers of the same murder charges for the sixth—yes, the sixth—time. Before the trial began, Evans did the same thing he had done before each of Flowers’ previous trials: he used his peremptory challenges to remove as many Black jurors as possible. Evans managed to seat […]
