By Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

LDF, the National Urban League and the NAACP respond to a Wall Street Journal editorial criticizing the Justice Department challenge of South Carolina’s new voter ID law.

By The Editors
Despite the continuing disarray in the GOP candidate field many on the political Right are still confidently predicting whoever the Republican candidate turns out to be, he will beat President Obama in November.

By The Editors
Addressing what he said was “a consistent drumbeat of concern from many Americans,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Tuesday pledged that the government will vigorously oppose measures and schemes designed to prevent registered voters from voting next year, whether they come in the form of direct challenges to core provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or are couched in measures ostensibly meant to prevent voter fraud.

The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the NAACP have been tracking the rising tide of legislative measures designed to block access to the polls for voters of color. What our research has uncovered is a cause for grave concern: a coordinated and comprehensive assault has been launched against our voting rights.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
In academia, Gingrich topped out as an assistant professor of history and geography at a third-tier state school…Someone once wrote he has a “Reader’s Digest intellect.”

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund celebrated its 25th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) last week in New York City. The event raised nearly $2.5 million dollar for LDF’s mission and programs.

By John Payton
Editor’s Note — The President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund takes issue in a letter to the New York Times of November 2 with a recent op-ed dismissing the effectiveness of recent civil rights litigation.

By Lee A. Daniels
I suspect that one thing the huge stone sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Memorial dedicated to him Sunday in a quiet, contemplative corner of the National Mall will do for many visitors is help bring him to life.

Editor’s Note:  Forty-eight years and two months after his speech for the ages, the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. will once again ring out over the National Mall in the nation’s capitol this Sunday as the memorial to him is dedicated.   The attorneys who staffed the NAACP legal Defense and Educational Fund during the [...]