Lindsey Norward
Senior Staff Writer at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Writer w/ a love for amplifying voices and truths. Senior Staff Writer at @naacp_ldf ⚖️ Bylines @voxdotcom @jezebel @theroot 🎓: @GloJo_NYU | Views are my own
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Jan 24, 2025 |
legaldefensefund.substack.com | Lindsey Norward
IN BRIEF: For more than 60 years, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been a crucial tool to ensure students in public schools and institutions receive equal access to educational opportunities and have recourse if faced with discrimination. WHY IT MATTERS: Title VI is especially important for Black students and other students of color, who have historically faced — and continue to face — systemic barriers to safe, fair, and inclusive educational opportunities.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
legaldefensefund.substack.com | Lindsey Norward
Alabama’s 2024 election results epitomize why fighting against discriminatory redistricting allows Black voters to exercise their true political power. They revealed that — as the civil rights community knows well — when Black voters aren’t split across or overly packed into legislative into districts, both of which can dilute their votes, they can elect candidates who truly serve their needs and interests.
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Jul 21, 2024 |
mindsitenews.org | Lindsey Norward
First-time mothers join Philadelphia’s Nurse-Family Partnership program, a home-visiting model, and gain tools to better support their babies’ health. When Yarilette visited the emergency room in Fall of 2020, she couldn’t believe she might be pregnant. She was 19 years old, in her first year at community college, and living with a friend after an altercation with her mother led her to being kicked out the house.
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Jan 23, 2024 |
naacpldf.org | Lindsey Norward
In San Antonio, Texas, community members and advocates gathered outside of the federal courthouse on October 2, 2023 with emblazoned signs in hand, shouting spirited chants. As a trial was underway inside, echoes of their rallying calls for voting rights reverberated through the city streets. Candace Wicks, a retired teacher who traveled 300 miles from Dallas to show her support, shared her story to the burgeoning crowd with a mixture of frustration and determination.
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Jun 14, 2023 |
naacpldf.org | Lindsey Norward
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"A resilient memory in history, Juneteenth is not just a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder of the fight that continues in gaining it." from 2020 for @Jezebel https://t.co/Jk8wQtggZ4
"The tradition of Juneteenth weaves a tapestry of struggle, resilience, and the unyielding pursuit of freedom....Juneteenth stands as a symbol of hope — and a reminder of the long, arduous journey toward racial justice and full equality in America." https://t.co/25lLU7GyWu
"In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself...he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another." ❤️
#OnThisDay in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois called for active resistance to racist policies in his book, “The Souls of Black Folk”: “We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.” He described the https://t.co/XszbTcuYLR
