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Advocates and Parents of Baltimore City School Students Urge Maryland Officials to Provide Adequate Funding for Baltimore City Schools

Today, advocates and parents of Baltimore City Schools students sent a letter to Maryland officials urging them to take specific steps to support the students’ right to an education and fulfill the State’s responsibility under the Maryland Constitution and binding court orders. The letter details how the fiscal year 2022 budget and the legislative session […]

Advocacy Organizations Call on Senate to Halt Judicial Confirmations Process

Washington, D.C.— A coalition of 29 advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, calling on them to halt the confirmation process for Donald Trump’s federal judicial nominees now that the president has been impeached and faces a trial in the Senate. Organizations signing the letter […]

Admissions Figures at NYC’s Specialized High Schools Show Persistence of Acute Racial Disparities

Admissions offers issued for New York City’s Specialized High Schools demonstrate that a trend of unfairness and acute racial disparities in admissions has persisted. Out of the 952 eighth grade students who received offers to matriculate into Stuyvesant High School this year, 7 are Black and 21 are Hispanic. Of the 968 eighth graders who […]

Aden Reports LDF Return to Court to Defend Victory in Fayette County, Georgia Case

In The Root, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden announces LDF’s return to court due to Fayette County’s continued defense of racially biased voting plans in federal court appeal: “Despite this progress, Fayette County continues to defend its racially discriminatory method of election, having appealed the federal court’s ruling and continuing to impose on Fayette taxpayers the costs (so far […]

Aden Argues Against At-Large Voting in Op-Ed

Fair opportunity eludes black voters “Because at-large voting erects a barrier to black voters’ electoral opportunities, plaintiffs to the lawsuit seek a remedial district in which black voters are the majority of the voters in one of the five districts, which will elect one of the five judges for the 32nd JDC. Without this district-based […]

Adebayo Ogunlesi

Adams v. Rankin County Board of Education

Case: Education Adams v. Rankin County School District Ensuring equal access to educational opportunities Filed: 1967 What’s at stake? In 1967, a group of Black parents and their children in Rankin County, Mississippi filed a federal lawsuit against Rankin County School District (RCSD) to integrate the school district, which still maintained a segregated public school […]

Adam Murphy

Adam Murphy is an Assistant Counsel. At LDF, Adam argued recently on behalf of amici before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Dew, __ Mass. __, 210 N.E.3d 904 (Mass. 2023). In that case, the court reversed Mr. Dew’s convictions and became the first court in the country to evaluate defense counsel’s racial […]

Adam Lioz

Adam Lioz is Senior Policy Counsel for political participation at LDF, where he works to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.  Adam is an attorney and policy advocate with more than 25 years of experience working to promote political equality, economic opportunity, sustainable development, and racial equity through public education, policy design, direct advocacy, litigation, and […]

ACLU of Georgia and Civil Rights Groups: Extend Voter Registration Deadline as State Recovers from Hurricane Helene

Contact: Dorrie Toney, media@acluga.org Ella Wiley, media@aclu.org Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org Lacy Crawford, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org ATLANTA—The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the law firm Cooley LLP filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to extend the voter registration deadline, as Georgians deal with […]