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1 Apr 2022, 7:57 am
On Wednesday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund challenged the Louisiana legislature’s adoption of a new congressional districting map. [read post]
9 Aug 2023, 1:01 am
Thurgood Marshall as a young NAACP lawyer Forrestal directed the Navy to review the case. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 7:30 am
” A coalition of state attorneys general, as well as the NAACP, quickly filed lawsuits challenging the rescission. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 4:52 am
Nonetheless, Evers consistently investigated the rapes, murders, beatings, and lynchings of black Mississippians and reported the horrid incidents to a national audience, all the while organizing economic boycotts, sit-ins, and street protests in Jackson as the NAACP’s first full-time Mississippi field secretary. [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 3:00 am
Raymond was a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP). [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 11:53 am
In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. [read post]
20 Jun 2006, 11:33 am
"Among those who signed the letter were the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Alliance for Justice, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Urban League and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.The 44-year-old Holmes served as a federal prosecutor in Oklahoma City from 1994 to 2005. [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 2:37 am
An investigation into nearly 30 recent arrests made by two Seattle Police officers who had been accused of lying in written reports has turned up no evidence of wrongdoing, Chief Gil Kerlikowske said Monday.The officers' one error was failing to report that they had briefly detained and handcuffed another suspect; Chief Kerlikowske says that they might be reprimanded or have some other administrative punishment for that.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People… [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 6:18 am
The Sentencing Project and the Center for the Study of Race and Law, ACLU and NAACP-LDF joined to support Kimbrough. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 6:50 am
Give credit to the NCADP and the Nation for a consistency I haven't seen elsewhere on the Internet. [read post]
4 May 2012, 9:37 am
In a forceful decision, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP that Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) requires that all public assistance clients must be provided with a voter registration application whether they seek benefits in person or by the internet, telephone and mail. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 7:59 am
Conference of Mayors Members of Congress NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund National Network to End Domestic Violence, et al. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 10:18 am
The following witnesses will testify: Panel One Belinda Everette, Director, Housing Initiative, NAACP Houston Branch Judson Robinson III, CEO and Chair, Houston Area Urban League Hua Sun, Professor, University of Iowa John Wong, Founding Chair, Asian Real Estate Association of America Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chief, Race, Wealth, and Community, National Community Reinvestment Coalition Panel Two Noel Poyo, Executive Director, National Association of Latino Community Asset… [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 10:37 am
" (Photo and Quote Courtesy of ReclaimCivilRights.org) This is why groups like the ACLU, the Alliance for Justice, the NAACP-LDF, The Asian American Justice Center, National Council of La Raza, National Women's Law Center, and many, many more organizations have gathered together at a regional conference on civil rights--Why We Can't Wait: Reversing the Retreat on Civil Rights in Durham, NC. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 8:37 am
The letter highlights several beliefs shared by the organizations: In-person bar exams should not continue under COVID-19 conditions and online exams are an inadequate substitute State bar exams should be canceled this year and boards should award recent law school graduates with full diploma privilege Bar exams (regardless of format) “exacerbate inequalities affecting applicants of color, lower-income applicants, and applicants with disabilities” Attempts at online exam administration… [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 7:00 am
As the court recognized, groups like FLOC and the NAACP serve to empower marginalized voices. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 11:30 am
The court’s landmark decision in NAACP v Claiborne Hardware Co. affirmed the constitutional right of NAACP activists to hold a mass economic boycott of white-owned businesses in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to protest the community’s persistent racial inequality and segregation. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 12:41 pm
After graduating from law school, he joined the NAACP legal staff in 1944. [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 6:18 am
Most of the accusations detailed instances of discrimination based on color, race, ancestry and national origin. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 3:30 am
Sabin describes how environmental lawyers, like other public interest lawyers in the 1960s, were inspired by the successes of the NAACP and ACLU in using litigation for social change. [read post]
