Tuesday, June 6, 2023 | news
Today, the Connecticut General Assembly passed An Act Concerning State Voting Rights in Recognition of John R. Lewis (“CTVRA”) as part of the state budget. The CTVRA is a state-level Voting Rights Act that seeks to expand access to the freedom to vote and strengthen protections against voting discrimination for communities of color throughout the […]
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | news
The New York City Council voted on Monday to require the Police and Education Departments to produce regular reports on arrests, summonses and suspensions of public school students, a victory for civil liberties advocates who say that the school police have sometimes been too aggressive in trying to keep order. The measure, which was introduced […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 | news
The city will pay out more than $170,000 to settle with nine people who claimed they were illegally stopped and frisked by police at city housing projects. The settlements are part of a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and […]
Friday, May 13, 2011 | news
The Chicago Fire Department must hire 111 bypassed black firefighter candidates — and distribute “tens of millions of dollars” in damages to 6,000 others who will never get that chance — a federal appeals court ruled Friday, upholding a landmark ruling. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 9-to-0 decision, that, contrary to […]
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 | news
(Beaufort, SC) — Yesterday, the Burton-Dale-Beaufort Branch of the NAACP strongly urged the Beaufort City Council to end the current discriminatory at-large based system of voting and put up for voter referendum a district-based voting map that will ensure that all of Beaufort’s residents have an equal say in the political process. “The Beaufort City […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | news
NAACP LDF and six other leading civil rights and human rights organization today sent an open letter to Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus calling for him to repudiate the Values Voter Summit based on its sponsoring groups’ virulent attacks on the LGBT community. Scheduled speakers at this year’s event, which begins this Thursday in Washington, […]
Monday, March 13, 2023 | news
The decision from the Court in the Bradford case, which spans three decades, leaves another generation of schoolchildren in Baltimore City Public Schools without the equitable funding needed for a quality education On March 3, 2023, a Maryland Circuit Court granted summary judgment to the State of Maryland in Bradford v. Maryland State Board of […]
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | news
This year, Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Practice and Interim Director of Litigation has been chosen as an Honorary Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, from which she is an alum. Past honorees include Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Leonard Boudin, Morris Dees, Justice Cruz, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Michael Posner, Cory […]
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 | news
Christina Swarns, Interim Director of Litigation and Director of the Criminal Justice Practice at LDF attended a performance of the new Broadway adaptation of “A Time to Kill,” which is based on John Grisham’s bestselling novel and a popular motion picture. “A Time to Kill,” one of the most celebrated courtroom dramas of the last […]
Friday, February 13, 2015 | news
Christina Swarns talks about what the mantras “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “I can’t breathe,” and “Black lives matter” mean for the current and historic civil rights movements. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” “I can’t breathe.” “Black lives matter.” These are the now ubiquitous chants, hashtags and mantras that stand as succinct and eloquent expressions of the […]
