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Jennifer Holmes

Jennifer A. Holmes joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) in 2017 and now serves as Deputy Director of Litigation. She supervises litigation involving economic justice, including cases combating discrimination in housing, employment, lending, and access to water to help Black communities achieve economic security and opportunity. Jennifer helped develop Pickett v. Cleveland, a lawsuit […]

Jennifer Holmes

Jeffries Calls Stop-and-Frisk Settlement a “Step Forward”

Last July, Governor Paterson signed into law a bill that did away with the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk database. The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Senator Eric Adams, made it illegal for police officers to add the names and addresses of every person they stop, question and frisk to an electronic database used in […]

Jefferson Thomas, American Hero 1942-2010

Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, died Sunday. In 1957 he and eight other black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, risked their lives to go to the high school they were entitled to in order to prove the greatest declaration of American idealism had meaning.  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that […]

Jeff Sessions Should Not be People’s Lawyer

Jeff Sessions is applying to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. The People’s Lawyer. If he could not even fill out the government job application for the post he seeks accurately and truthfully, how can he be expected to guide the Department of Justice with competence and integrity at a time when our country […]

Jared Evans

Jared Evans currently serves as Senior Policy Counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest and foremost civil rights law organization. Jared’s practice area at LDF is focused on political participation, with a particular emphasis on voting rights and redistricting, and has served as LDF’s census coordinator since 2019. […]

January 6th Committee Hearings

JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE HEARINGS The violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a brazen, virulent, and deadly manifestation of the concerted effort to undermine our democracy, to overthrow the government, and to negate the votes cast by our communities. January 6 was not an isolated incident, but rather part of an ongoing, […]

Janel George Weighs In on Policing and School Discipline

S. Carolina case lesson: Police shouldn’t be doing school discipline As long as students of color are profiled, criminalized and pushed out of school, we will continue to be bombarded with reports of “disturbing” incidents. All of us will bear the brunt of the consequences of allowing these horrific interactions to continue. Students are affected […]

Janel George Weighs In on Missouri Having Highest Suspension Rate in the U.S. for Black Elementary Students

Missouri’s Suspension Rate of Black Elementary Students Highest in the Nation Janel George, Senior Education Policy Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the study should spur schools and communities to action. “The nation can’t close the achievement gap if we don’t close the discipline gap,” she said during the conference call. […]

Janel George Weighs In on Federal Law in School Discipline at Capitol Hill Roundtable

Can Federal Education Law be Used to Curb Harsh School Discipline?  “Public school discipline practices are pushing children out of school,” said Janel George, senior education policy counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which co-sponsored the event. “You cannot learn and you cannot achieve if you’re not in a classroom.” …George of the […]