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Senate Fails to Confirm Nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
3/05/14
Statement by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of LDF
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LDF Applauds Judge Andre Davis’ Tenure on the Federal Bench
2/28/14The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) congratulated Judge Andre Davis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit as he steps down from active service today.
Judge Davis is the first and only African American to represent Maryland on the Fourth Circuit, which includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Carolinas.
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President Obama Announces Initiative on Boys and Young Men of Color
2/27/14
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LDF Mourns the Passing of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba
2/26/14
It is with great sadness that LDF mourns the passing of Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Mayor Lumumba was a revered civil rights lawyer, a human rights activist, and, as the co-founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, a true revolutionary. He devoted himself completely to principles of freedom and self-determination for black people.
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Echoes of Brown in School Discipline
2/26/14Source:Education Week