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Six Ways Federal Voting Rights Legislation Can Protect Voters and American Democracy

Prepared to Vote 6 Ways Federal Voting Rights Legislation Can Protect Voters and American Democracy By Ella Wiley Senior Communications Associate Since the current session of Congress began in January 2021, the United States Senate has thus far failed to enact crucial federal voting rights protections. This inaction is wholly unacceptable and has steep costs […]

Six of the Women Behind Brown v. Board of Education

The Case that Changed America Six of the Women Behind Brown v. Board of Education Learn More About Brown v. Board Throughout LDF’s history, women have been the lifeblood animating our efforts to achieve racial justice. From our brilliant attorneys and intrepid organizers to our innovative policy experts and courageous clients, LDF’s work has always […]

Six Civil Rights Leaders Unite to Raise Concerns over Kavanaugh’s Nomination to Supreme Court

Today, leaders of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF); National Urban League; National Action Network; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; NAACP; and National Coalition for Black Civic Participation joined in expressing collective concern regarding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Kennedy’s retirement. […]

Six Civil Rights Leaders Unite to Raise Concerns over Kavanaugh’s Nomination to Supreme Court

Today, leaders of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF); National Urban League; National Action Network; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; NAACP; and National Coalition for Black Civic Participation joined in expressing collective concern regarding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Kennedy’s retirement. […]

Simeon Spencer

Simeon Spencer is a Research and Operations Associate for the Thurgood Marshall Institute at LDF. Prior to joining LDF, he served in a variety of roles focused on civil rights, political rights, public housing, and criminal justice reform. At the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, he led programming on voter […]

Sherrilyn Ifill’s Washington Post Op-Ed: “When Trump attacks one black woman, we all feel it”

“In 1963, a 28-year-old black woman named Mary Hamilton was arrested for nonviolent protest. She was brought before an Alabama court, hardly a friendly environment for a young civil rights activist. But as she stood before the judge, she stood firm to her commitment to equal dignity: She refused to answer the prosecutor’s questions until he called […]

Sherrilyn Ifill’s Testimony Before the Senate Committee on the Voting Rights Amendment Act

Testimony of Sherrilyn Ifill Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Hearing on “The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder” Watch the video here

Sherrilyn Ifill’s Latest Op-Ed for TIME: Violent Policies Fall Hardest on Students of Color

In her one-woman show Notes from the Field, Anna Deavere Smith exposes the consequences of America’s abandonment of our most vulnerable and troubled children. She reveals that what is now known as the “school-to-prison pipeline” is, in fact, the sum of our failures to meet the needs of our children — in particular, children of color. […]

Sherrilyn Ifill: How Senators Must Fight Confirmation of Jeff Sessions

How Democrats Must Fight the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions In a little over a month’s time confirmation hearings will begin to confirm Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the Republican senator from Alabama, as the nation’s 84th attorney general. Last week reports surfaced that members of President-elect Donald Trump’s team are advising that this effort should focus on […]