Monday, November 27, 2023 | staff
Jahdziah joins LDF’s DC office as a Research Associate. Before joining LDF, she worked as a researcher with the Better Life Lab at the New America Foundation. Jahdziah received her Master’s in Public Policy from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton University. In her spare time, she enjoys frequenting cafes, […]
Monday, April 24, 2023 | news
Contact: Cliff Johnson Phone: 662-915-6863 Email: cliff.johnson@macarthurjustice.org Contact: Mandesha Thornton Phone: 601-352-2269 ext. 147 Email: mthornton@mscenterforjustice.org Contact: Ella Wiley Email: media@naacpldf.org Contact: Neely Mullen Phone: 601-354-3408 Email: comms@aclu-ms.org Lawsuit Says Circuit Judges Must be Elected and CCID Court is Illegitimate JACKSON, Miss. – Today, three Jackson residents filed a lawsuit in the […]
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | ldf-events
Remembering the life of Jack Greenberg, 2nd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. September 26th, 2018 Presented by: The Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “Jack Greenberg, the second director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and its longest-serving leader, never intended […]
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | director-counsels
Jack Greenberg succeeded Thurgood Marshall as LDF’s second Director-Counsel from 1961-84. Greenberg first joined LDF in 1949 as a 24 year-old Columbia Law School graduate. At the time, Marshall was looking for an assistant to help fight Jim Crow. A few years later, a 27 year-old Greenberg became the youngest member of the team of […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
Mr. Aronson, an associate professor at New York University, has been a leader in investigating the effects of social forces on academic achievement. Along with the psychologist Claude Steele, he identified the phenomenon known as “stereotype threat.” Members of groups believed to be academically inferior — African-American and Latino students enrolled in college, or female […]
Friday, March 27, 2015 | news
Loretta Lynch has waited longer than any other Attorney General nominee in the past 30 years. Her confirmation is being held up by Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over a controversial provision in an anti-human trafficking bill that will prevent women who have been trafficked from using their restitution funds to seek medical abortions for […]
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | ldf-perspectives
It’s Time to for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19 April 24, 2020 America’s ability to limit the death and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 depends on dramatically ramping up testing for the coronavirus – a reality that the President and United States Congress acknowledge with the passage and signing of the […]
Friday, January 31, 2014 | news
Since its inception, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has opposed the institution of capital punishment. Whether it is because the death penalty is mired in racial bias and disproportionality, or because almost 150 people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, or because an astonishing number of capital cases are reversed […]
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | page
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | news
With legislative leaders about to begin redrawing legislative and congressional districts to reflect the 2010 Census, the General Assembly is considering a related issue: Where should prison inmates be counted? The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund says Connecticut is one of 47 states that practices “prison-based gerrymandering” by counting inmates where they are confined, […]
