Thursday, May 11, 2023 | page
Michigan Needs its Own Voting Rights Act Michigan Voting Rights Act (MIVRA) The Michigan Voting Rights Act (MIVRA or Senate Bills 401, 402, 403, and 404) is a transformative legislative package that builds upon the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 and wide-ranging protections recently passed in New York and Connecticut, as well as previous efforts in California, Washington, […]
Thursday, December 19, 2024 | news
ACLU of Michigan amullen@aclumich.org; 313-400-8562 Promote the Vote media@promotethevotemi.com Legal Defense Fund media@naacpldf.org Campaign Legal Center bquinn@campaignlegalcenter.org The clock ran out on the Michigan Voting Rights Act, leaving voters of color vulnerable to incoming anti-democracy attacks under Project 2025. Today, the Michigan legislature’s lame duck session ended without a critical vote on the Michigan Voting […]
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | news
On Thursday, November 13 at 11:00 a.m. ET, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) will host a forum to examine policies that led to the events in Ferguson. Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF President and Director-Counsel, and Richard Rothstein, EPI Research Associate, will discuss how a century of purposeful federal, state, […]
Friday, February 10, 2012 | news
By Tarice L.S. Gray It was the late 1950s when two native Virginians, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, whose ancestors included Native Americans as well as African Americans, made the decision to become husband and wife. They had lived their entire lives in the state, which rigidly enforced segregation, yet discovered that their […]
Thursday, April 7, 2016 | news
Editorial A Texas Man is Due to Die Because He’s Black The state of Texas agrees that unconstitutional testimony was introduced at the trial, but has argued that the testimony and the caliber of Buck’s legal counsel don’t constitute the kind of “extraordinary circumstances” under which Buck would be allowed to proceed. That’s an unacceptable […]
Monday, September 13, 2021 | ldf-perspectives
Lawyer. Advocate. Judge. Elected Official. Motley with LDF founder Thurgood Marshall and former LDF Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg. One of LDF’s first female attorneys, Constance Baker Motley wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education and pioneered the legal campaigns for several seminal school desegregation cases. She was the first Black woman to argue […]
Friday, October 15, 2010 | news
Two years ago, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed suit in Indiana and stopped what it said was a threat to disenfranchise homeowners facing foreclosure. Now, after countless more foreclosures, an NAACP lawyer says it's ready to litigate again if needed. At issue in the 2008 lawsuit was whether a list of homeowners […]
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | news
Washington, DC – Today, in response to ongoing attacks on efforts to address racial inequality, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) announced the launch of its Equal Protection Initiative (EPI), an interdisciplinary project to protect and advance public and private sector efforts to remove barriers to equal opportunity for Black people. As part of this new […]
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) officially released its Democracy Defended report, which provides lessons learned from monitoring the 2022 election and a blueprint for the upcoming 2024 election, with a particular focus on the South. The report documents the barriers and aggressive anti-voting tactics faced by Black voters in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, […]
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | news
Today, the United States Postal Service unveiled its 47th Black Heritage stamp which honors the iconic life and legacy of Constance Baker Motley, the second woman lawyer at the LDF and a legal trailblazer in the United States. LDF President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement: “Black women have long been unheralded heroes […]