Thursday, August 1, 2013 | news
Damon Hewitt, Director of the Education Practice Group at LDF, met with and delivered testimony to the Dream Defenders yesterday during the sixteenth day of their sit-in at the Florida Governor’s office. Inspired by sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, dozens of college aged and young people have been living in Gov. Rick Scott’s office, […]
Thursday, May 17, 2018 | ldf-perspectives
By Cristian A. Farias, Former Writer-in-Residence at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund When the Supreme Court decided the seminal Brown v. Board of Education, the justices made it plain that the “original meaning” of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection had little bearing on their decision to end school segregation once and […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Phillip Atiba Goff is the Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at John Jay College in New York City. He is the co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity, and an expert in contemporary forms of racial bias and discrimination, as well as the intersections of race and gender. Dr. Goff has […]
Monday, March 5, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Dr. Megan Ming Francis Joins LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced today the selection of Dr. Megan Ming Francis as a Fellow of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI). Launched in 2015, TMI is a multidisciplinary research and advocacy center within LDF. […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Megan Ming Francis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington and is also the Field Director for History and Political Development at the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR). Francis specializes in the study of American politics, social movements, and the development of […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 | staff
Kesha Moore, PhD, is a Senior Researcher and Development Specialist with LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Prior to joining LDF, Dr. Moore was an Associate Professor at Drew University, where she taught Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, Engendering Prisons and Social Movements as well as created numerous campuses-community connections that engaged faculty, students, and […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
On September 11, 1963, Henrie Monteith Treadwell, along with two other courageous students, seized the opportunity to change the dark traditions of segregation at the University of South Carolina and became the first African American students to attend the university. With the help of her Aunt Modjeska Simpkins, a civil rights activist, and her lawyer, […]
Friday, March 21, 2025 | page
Louisiana’s quiet force for change in the fight for fair election maps Dr. Alice Washington on Her Unwavering Commitment to Fair Representation for Black Louisianians By Erin Donaghue When Dr. Alice Washington cast her ballot in Louisiana’s District 6 Congressional election in November 2024, she felt excitement and hope in the air. For the first […]
