By Lee A. Daniels
There is no “battle for Dr. King’s legacy,” as one newspaper headline, intended to be attention-grabbing, put it this week. The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the black freedom struggle was affirmed for all time at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.

By Kenneth J. Cooper
Already, Deval Patrick is making history by being the first African American to seek reelection as a governor, in Massachusetts. His chances of setting another milestone as the first to win a second term as a state’s chief executive in November look pretty good.

By Lee A. Daniels
Today, American society is flooded with virulent, racially-driven images and rhetoric hurled against the President, saturated with the demonizing of undocumented Latino immigrants and calls for scrapping the constitutional protection all children born in America should enjoy, and degraded by cynical assertions that guilt-by-association is valid principle to apply to people who are not white

By Doug Miller
An unexpectedly robust mail-in response from American households wound up saving the U.S. Census Bureau nearly a quarter of the money it had budgeted this fiscal year to conduct the 2010 Census, according to Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and other federal officials.

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) commemorates the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a bill that remains a cornerstone feature of American democracy. The Act is widely considered one of the most successful and effective civil rights statutes ever passed by Congress and continues to play an important role in combating ongoing voting discrimination throughout our nation.

By Lee A. Daniels
Two prominent Senators in the last week have said they believe the Senate should consider revoking the automatic right of American citizenship granted all children born in the United States – including children of undocumented immigrants.

By Lee A. Daniels
A federal judge this week blocked the central and most controversial provisions of Arizona’s newly-enacted immigration law that took effect Thursday, declaring they improperly interfered with federal immigration enforcement law.
But while the judge’s ruling cheered opponents of the law, which included the federal Department of Justice, it represented only the first [...]

By Lee A. Daniels
The so-called digital divide in possession and use of cell phones, laptops and other such devices – which once prompted anguished predictions that black Americans would be left behind on the information superhighway – is fast narrowing.

By The Editors
On June 3, the NAACP Legal Defense And Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), released a report, Independent Redistricting Commissions: Reforming Redistricting Without Reversing Progress Toward Racial Equality, to provide an overview of IRCs and examine their potential impact on minority voting rights. The report also urges voters to be vigilant in monitoring any late efforts to change the rules that govern the way redistricting lines are drawn.

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, which seeks to invalidate the federal preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act known as Section 5. LDF seeks to intervene on behalf of African-American residents of Shelby County whose voting rights are directly impacted by this challenge.