Monday, March 11, 2013 | news
LDF Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill and Special Counsel Debo Adegbile were interviewed on MSNBC at the foot of the Edmund Pettus bridge, the site where marchers were beaten by Alabama police in 1965 while protesting for voting rights. The annual commemoration of the march, which led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was attended by […]
Saturday, June 29, 2013 | news
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 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Aden lists steps all of us can take in the […]
Friday, May 10, 2013 | news
Watch Christina Swarns, LDF Director of the Criminal Justice Practice, on May 11, 2013 at 8:00 AM on MSNBC “‘Up with Steve Kornacki” for an informed discussion on the death penalty.
Monday, May 13, 2013 | news
LDF Special Counsel Debo Adegbile was the only Black lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court during the last year. Mr. Adegbile argued in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder to preserve Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, an essential tool in defending the voting rights of African-American voters, and other voters of color, […]
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | news
Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm Natasha Merle to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Merle has served at LDF since 2016, as Assistant Counsel, Senior Counsel, and most recently as Deputy Director of Litigation, and is the first attorney since LDF’s founder Thurgood Marshall, who […]
Monday, March 11, 2013 | news
Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, discusses, on the Rachael Maddow Show, why it is imperative that the U. S. Supreme Court uphold the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Watch his video appearance here
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | case-update
Ria Tabacco Mar, LDF Assistant Counsel of the Economic Justice Practice, highlights in Ebony.com the strikingly similar text and tone of today’s continuing debate on Marriage Equality with past language all too familiar to African Americans in the defense of institutional racial inequality. Read the article here.
Monday, March 18, 2013 | case-update
LDF Criminal Justice Project Director, Christina Swarns, speaks with David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio on how racial bias influenced the death penalty sentence against Duane Buck. Her interview begins 15:33 minutes into this audio replay.
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
LDF Criminal Justice Project Director, Christina Swarns, speaks with David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio on how racial bias influenced the death penalty sentence against Duane Buck. Her interview begins 15:33 minutes into this audio replay.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | news
Damon Hewitt, Director of LDF’s Education Practice Group, was featured in a WNYC radio/www.Schoolbook.com story about LDF’s challenge to the admissions process for New York City’s elite Specialized High Schools. “Last year almost 1000 students were offered admission to Stuyvesant, only 19 of those offers were to African American students,” said Damon Hewitt . . […]
