The LDF’s mission is to “achieve racial justice, equality, and an inclusive society.” The organization says it works to protect voting rights, ensure equal access to education, and policing and criminal justice fairness.
By Andrew Gans
Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley s daily series benefits The Actors Fund.
Stars in the House, the daily live streamed concert series created by Playbill correspondent and SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley, offers a Broadway-filled game night January 19.
Guests include Tony winner Alice Ripley, Joely Fisher, Paul Castree, and Stephen Spadaro. Watch the stream above beginning at 8 PM. James Wesley and Seth Rudetsky Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Stars in the House launched March 16 to promote support for The Actors Fund and its services in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It has also raised funds for the NAACP s Legal Defense Fund in support of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Kind Snacks has partnered with suicide prevention charity, Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), to further champion its mission to get Britons to exercise kindness amid the continuing challenges thrown up by the pandemic.
“While without question we are in a perilous moment in this country, we are also in a moment of tremendous possibility, particularly in the South,” Ifill added. “The elements for change are very much present in the South, and what needs to be strengthened is the capacity of lawyering.”
The fund will be named the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program after former Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall, and
Constance Baker Motley, the first Black female federal judge.
Motley also served as Marshall’s law clerk in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Today, we are proud to announce the groundbreaking #MarshallMotleyScholars Program, an innovative educational opportunity that will produce the next generation of civil rights attorneys in the South. https://t.co/ixODtuXnX6
The NAACP chose Martin Luther King Day to announce the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, named for the Supreme Court justice and for Constance Baker Motley, who was an LDF attorney just a few years out of Columbia University Law School when she wrote the initial complaint that led to the court s Brown v. Board of Education ruling outlawing racial segregation in public schools. She later became the first Black woman federal judge.
“Our country continues to be plagued with racial injustice, and we need Nonviolent Warriors who are prepared and equipped on all fronts to deal with it especially on the legal front, the Rev. Bernice King said in a statement supporting the program. “It will allow the LDF to make greater strides on behalf of the Black community for generations to come in the area of racial justice, just as they did during the movement led by my parents.”