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Ryan Haygood on Melissa Harris Perry: Voting Rights are Under Attack

The Director of the Political Participation Group at NAACP Legal Defense Fund Ryan Haygood joined the Melissa Harris Perry Show to discuss the serious threat to voting rights facing African Americans. LDF defended the Voting Rights Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, but last month they issued an outrageous ruling to take it out of […]

Ryan Haygood Discusses the Continuing Need of the VRA on ‘Up w/ Chris Hayes’

See the interview On February 22, 2013, Ryan Haygood, Director of LDF’s Political Participation Group, discussed Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, on Up w/ Chris Hayes on MSNBC. Shelby County, Alabama currently is challenging the constitutionality of Section 5, the heart of the Voting Rights Act. Mr. Haygood was joined by other stakeholders in the […]

Ryan Haygood Discusses Ruling on Florida’s Early Voting Limits

Ryan Haygood, on Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, hails judges’ ruling against Florida’s limit on early in-person voting and details how the limit would have disproportionately affected minority voting. See the interview.

Ryan Haygood debates Glen Loury of Brown University on voting rights

On LDF’s inaugural Bloggingheads episode, Ryan Haygood debates Glen Loury of Brown University on voting rights, America’s racial history, and what a new civil rights movement looks like. Check it out!

Ruling in Fisher v U. Texas College Diversity Case, Fifth Circuit Upholds Principles of Diversity in Higher Education

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Principles of Diversity in Higher Education, Affirms Lower Court Ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas on Remand  July 15, 2014 Tthe NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas in which the […]

Ruling Could Be Near on Fisher v. Texas

Josh Civin, Counsel to the Director of Litigation, recently presented oral argument to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Fisher vs. University of Texas on remand. In this article, he talks about barriers to educational opportunities for students of color and the importance of college diversity. “Joshua Civin, counsel to the director of litigation for […]

Ruby Mangum

Ruby joins LDF’s NY office as an Archives Administrative Assistant. Ruby is converting from a temporary assignment in the Archives Department. She was previously a Customer Service Representative at Bonobos. She graduated from Borough of Manhattan Community College with an Associate Degree in Accounting. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, attending new Broadway shows, […]

Rosales v. Quarterman

Mariano Rosales spent more than 23 years on Texas’s death row after being convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by a Harris County (Houston) jury from which African Americans and Latinos were excluded because of their race.  Between 1985 and 2008, Mr. Rosales consistently appealed his conviction and sentence, asserting that his his […]

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