Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced that Christina Swarns has been appointed its permanent Director of Litigation. For the past year, Ms. Swarns has served as LDF’s Interim Litigation Director and, since 2003, she has Directed LDF’s Criminal Justice Practice Group. As LDF’s Director of Litigation, Ms. Swarns will provide […]
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | staff
Christina Das is an Attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where she works to advance and defend voting rights and racial equity through legislation and policy change. Christina’s experience includes executing strategic campaigns to expand voter access for Black people, such as passing in-person Early Voting in South Carolina in […]
Monday, June 26, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our staement here. Christina A. Swarns to Step Down as LDF Litigation Director Will Be Succeeded by Samuel Spital After 14 years with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) – the last three as Litigation Director – Christina A. Swarns is leaving LDF to lead the Office of the […]
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 | case-issue
On June 10, 2019, LDF filed a lawsuit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, challenging the method of electing judges to the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the two highest courts in the state. The election processes for those courts have for decades denied Black voters an equal opportunity to participate in […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Chris Kemmitt is Director of Litigation at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF). As one of two Directors of Litigation, Chris co-leads the litigation department with Deuel Ross. He supervises LDF’s litigation efforts related to the criminal legal system and economic justice. Chris joined LDF in 2015 and has been a member of the litigation management […]
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 | news
LDF Senior Counsel Chris Kemmitt visited WPFW’s emPower Hour on June 30, 2016 to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Utah v. Strieff decision and Justice Sotomayor’s dissent.
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Chisom v. State of Louisiana Ensuring Black voters in Orleans Parish have an equal opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice to the Louisiana Supreme Court The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the law firm Cozen O’Connor, and Louisiana civil rights attorneys Ronald Wilson and William Quigley represent Ronald Chisom, Marie Bookman, and the Urban […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | page
Justice in Public Safety Project Children Arrest Incidents Show the Barbarity of Policing Kids By John Guzman Communications Associate — Police Accountability Content Warning: This article contains descriptions of police violence against children. Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Source: Photo by Stephen Maturen via Getty Images Law enforcement officers brutalize and criminalize […]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 | news
The longest Samuel Johnson has ever been able to give up menthol cigarettes is three months. Every time he tries to quit, he said, that cool, minty flavor that first drew him and other African-American smokers to menthols lures him back. "Everybody has a habit and mine is smoking cigarettes," said Johnson, 20, standing outside […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | news
Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages to some 6,000 others who will never get that chance, under a court order expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that African-American candidates did not wait […]
