NAACP Legal Defense Fund : Defend, Educate, Empower

Skip to Navigation
"The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is simply the best civil rights law firm in American history." -- President Obama

News Updates

Featured Video

Together We Can End Inequality

Stay Connected

Sign up to receive email updates from LDF.

  • Post-Katrina Housing Case Continues After D.C. Circuit Ruling

    4/08/11
    Related Case or Issue: 
    Road Home

    Joint Statement from Plaintiffs and Counsel on Recent Decision in Road Home Case

    (New York, NY) – Today a federal court of appeals issued a ruling explaining its decision to set aside preliminary injunctions previously granted against the State of Louisiana regarding its administration of the Road Home program.  The preliminary injunctions were granted at the request of two fair housing groups and African American homeowners in New Orleans who filed suit on behalf of families displaced in the wake of hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

  • Manning Marable: Our Great Scholar-Activist

    4/04/11
    Source: 
    NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

    "Instead of leadership from above, democracy from below.”- Dr. Manning Marable

    A few weeks ago, I had dinner with Dr. Manning Marable and his wife, Leith Mullings, whose voluminous books, papers and op-ed columns comprise a critical collection of today’s discourse on race in America.

  • Civil Rights: Deconstructing the school-to-prison pipeline

    4/03/11
    Source: 
    The Michigan Citizen

    DETROIT — “The most critical civil rights issue of our day” — the school-to-prison pipeline — drew lawyers, educators and the public to Wayne State University Law School March 25.

    “What is the school-to- prison pipeline?” asked keynote speaker Damon T. Hewitt, director of education practice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “You can’t define it, you can only frame it. It may look different from school to school.

  • Symposium examines 'school to prison pipeline' for black teens

    3/29/11
    Source: 
    The South End

    The “school to prison pipeline” symposium was held at the Wayne State Law School on March 25. The event focused on a process that is used by some public schools to expel minority students by reprimanding them harshly for minor offences.

    Keynote speaker Damon T. Hewitt, who is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, addressed the packed Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium about the racial inequities in both public and charter schools.

  • Leading Civil Rights Groups Urge Florida to Comply with the Voting Rights Act

    3/28/11

    (Tallahassee, Florida) — Today, the nation’s premiere civil rights organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the NAACP, including its Florida State Conference of Branches, and Advancement Project, together urged Florida Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to comply with the Voting Rights Act by submitting newly proposed changes to the state’s rules governing voter registration for persons with felony convictions to the federal government for approval.