Sunday, November 13, 2016 | news
‘Law and Order’ Under Trump Joy Reid and her expert panel discuss the implications of Donald Trump shaping policy surrounding policing, civil rights oversight, and more.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. today announced that Janai Nelson, a law professor and expert on election law and voting rights issues, has been named Associate Director-Counsel of the organization. Ms. Nelson’s appointment marks a return to LDF, where she began as an NAACP LDF/Fried Frank Fellow in 1998, joined the staff as […]
Friday, March 10, 2017 | news
LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joins The FourFiftyOne, a podcast for the resistance, to discuss LDF’s work on voting rights. Listen to the full segment here.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | news
On Sunday, January 17 at 3pm, for the 10th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, WNYC and the Apollo Theater partnered for a third year to present “Race and Privilege: Exploring MLK’s Two Americas,” as part of the Apollo’s Uptown Hall series. WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning host Brian Lehrer and Jami Floyd, local host of WNYC’s All Things Considered, moderated an open and honest […]
Monday, June 8, 2020 | news
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel, joined MSNBC’s Katy Tur to discuss the charges against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Officer responsible for the death of George Floyd.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | news
Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joined MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Katy Tur to discuss the 2020 Primary Elections, the voting obstacles plaguing Black communities, and the seventh anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder.
Saturday, May 9, 2015 | news
Baltimore and US history of housing segregation “More than 100 years of housing policy — from segregation laws to restrictive covenants to urban renewal to the subprime mortgage crisis — have created a Baltimore that is segregated and deeply unequal to this day. MHP and her guests [including Janai Nelson] discuss.”
Monday, September 7, 2020 | news
Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joined Chuck Todd on Meet the Press to discuss access to the ballot, the upcoming November, and LDF’s Prepared to Vote Initiative.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 | news
Emanuel AME: ‘we need to be in solidarity’ South Carolina responds to the Charleston Massacre with a powerful memorial and Gov. Nikki Haley calls for state lawmakers to remove the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds. Eugene Robinson, Mark Thompson, Janai Nelson, and Guy-Uriel Charles join Lawrence. ### Additionally, Nelson discusses the Confederate flag […]
Monday, December 7, 2015 | news
Supreme Court to hear affirmative action case An affirmative action case returns to the Supreme Court, prompting MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel [including LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson] to discuss the arguments for affirmative action and possible alternatives for more truly diverse campuses. Read more here.
