Tag: NAACP Legal Defense Fund

The NAACP Is Asking Black Teenagers To Save Black Voting Rights Because Generations of Adults Failed To Protect Them

Source: Ladanifer / Getty In November 1910, one year after its founding, the NAACP launched its official communications hub, The Crisis magazine, which documented lynching, disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and the everyday humiliations of Jim Crow. Its founding editor, the civil rights activist and child advocate W.E.B. Du Bois, featured a drawing of a Black […]

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‘Freedom Table With Rashad Robinson’ Discusses Trump’s Attacks On DEI 

Upon taking office, President Donald Trump wasted no time signing several executive orders targeting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts in public universities and the federal government. In this month’s Freedom Table, host Rashad Robinson is joined by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Director-Counsel Janai Nelson, Black AF History author Michael Harriot, and CEO of […]

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