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Brown at 60: Attorney General Eric Holder’s Speech celebrating Brown

Attorney General Eric Holder’s Speech Celebrating Brown Thank you, President [Sherrilyn] Ifill, for those kind words – and thank you all for such a warm welcome.  It’s a pleasure to be here today.  And it’s a privilege to join dedicated public servants like Governor [Deval] Patrick and Governor [Doug] Wilder – along with trailblazers like […]

Brown at 60: An Exclusive Essay from Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Gilbert King

As our nation celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, it’s important to remember that this landmark case had been years in the making by the time the Supreme Court handed down its ruling.  The case that would become Briggs v. Elliott (the first of five segregation cases eventually combined into Brown) actually began in 1947 […]

Brooklyn Block Co-Named Jacqueline Berrien Way In Honor of Former LDF Associate Director-Counsel

Today, a section of Decatur Street between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues in Brooklyn, New York, was co-named Jacqueline Berrien Way in honor of former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel Jacqueline A. Berrien, an extraordinary and highly accomplished civil rights lawyer, who died in 2015. Ms. Berrien served as associate director-counsel […]

Bronx DA No Longer Prosecuting Some Stop-And-Frisk Cases

The Bronx district attorney’s office is no longer prosecuting people stopped and arrested for trespassing unless the arresting officer ensures the arrest is warranted. The DA’s bureau chief for Arraignments, Jeannette Rucker, sent a letter to the NYPD saying arresting officers will now have to submit to an interview, as first reported by The New York Times. […]

Broad Range of Groups Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Voting Rights Act

(Washington, D.C.) On February 1, 2013, a broad and diverse range of friend-of-the-court briefs were filed in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, an important case that challenges the constitutionality of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in the United States Supreme Court. The briefs are available here. Among the wide-ranging groups weighing in with briefs in […]

Broad Coalition Urges Justice Department to Reject Discriminatory Louisiana Redistricting Plan

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, the National Urban League, and the NAACP State Conference of Louisiana issued a joint letter urging the Attorney General to reject a proposed redistricting plan for the Louisiana State House of Representatives.  The organizations argue that Louisiana has failed to meet […]

Broad Coalition Urges Justice Department to Reject Discriminatory Louisiana Redistricting Plan

[New York]–Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, the National Urban League, and the NAACP State Conference of Louisiana issued a joint letter urging the Attorney General to reject a proposed redistricting plan for the Louisiana State House of Representatives.  The organizations argue that Louisiana has failed […]

Broad Coalition Urges Justice Department to Reject Discriminatory Louisiana Redistricting Plan

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, the National Urban League, and the NAACP State Conference of Louisiana issued a joint letter urging the Attorney General to reject a proposed redistricting plan for the Louisiana State House of Representatives.  The organizations argue that Louisiana has failed to […]

Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

In 2016, the Democratic National Committee sued the state of Arizona, claiming that two of its voting policies violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). In 2020, the full Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Arizona’s ban on out-of-precinct voting (which bars the counting of in-person ballots that are cast outside of […]

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