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LDF Applauds President Obama's Decision to Commute Inflated Drug Sentences
12/19/13
Statement from Sherrilyn A. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
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Agreement Reached to Move Forward Important Work to Reduce Racial, Ethnic and Economic Isolation of Hartford School Children
12/13/13HARTFORD – The Center for Children’s Advocacy, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) and attorney Wesley Horton today signed another one year agreement with the Connecticut State Department of Education and the City of Hartford in Sheff v. O’Neill, Connecticut’s groundbreaking educational equity case. The agreement follows Stipulations and Orders signed in 2003, 2008 and 2013 by the parties which were designed to reduce the racial and ethnic isolation of Hartford’s public school students.
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Applauds Senate Confirmation of Nina Pillard to D.C. Circuit Court
12/12/13
The following is a statement from LDF's President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill:
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Houston's NPR affiliate reports on federal investigation into Bryan's School-to-Prison Pipeline
12/10/13Source:KUHFKUHF, an NPR affiliate radio station in Houston, Texas, reported on the federal investigation into the Bryan Independent School District's policy of citing criminal misdemeanors for normative childlike behavior.
Excerpt from the show's transcript:
When De’angelo Rollins started sixth grade here at Stephen F. Austin, he was excited. It’s a middle school in Bryan about an hour and half hour northwest of Houston.
But soon there were problems.
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In WaPo, Southerland talks criminal background searches of jurors
12/09/13Source:The Washington postDistrict prosecutors ran criminal background checks on several potential jurors in a high-profile gang case, raising serious concerns from a judge who questioned why most people they selected were African American....Vincent M. Southerland, senior counsel with the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, called what prosecutors did in the case “troubling.”