Sunday, February 26, 2006 | case-update
Multi-million dollar settlement secured by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with cooperating attorneys in historic discrimination suit. (New York, NY) — In a groundbreaking action, New York City has agreed to pay more than $21 million to settle a federal class action lawsuit alleging race and national origin discrimination against the […]
Thursday, May 12, 2011 | news
Leading Public Health Experts Agree: Menthol Ban Could Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives WASHINGTON, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to weigh a potential menthol ban, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association, Center for American Progress and Legacy® called for menthol cigarettes to […]
Thursday, December 30, 2010 | news
Accuracy and detailed reporting about security in schools will be a valuable tool that will be used to monitor activity in the schools, the bill’s sponsors believe, as well as identify and address any problems that may occur. The NYPD’s School Safety Division is made up of more than 5,200 officers and school safety agents […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | news
Mr. Buck, Called a Future Danger Because He is Black, Files Petition Seeking New, Fair Sentencing Hearing (Houston, Texas, March 13, 2013) A significant new study finding racial bias in Harris County’s death penalty system was released today in an appeal filed by condemned prisoner, Duane Buck, in Harris County’s 208th Criminal District Court. Mr. […]
Friday, July 15, 2022 | news
Yesterday, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating consequences of incarceration on Black people throughout the southern United States. With the long-term goal of eliminating all forms of racial […]
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | news
Student Borrower Protection Center and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Call on Stride Funding to Address Evidence of Discrimination, Warn of Broader Fair Lending Risks for Providers of Income Share Agreements The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent a demand letter to higher […]
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | news
New Report Highlights Stark Racial Disparities in Prisoner Exonerations Data Showing Innocent African Americans More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted Today, the National Registry of Exonerations released Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, reporting on the sobering facts that African-American prisoners convicted of a murder are 50% more likely to be innocent than […]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | news
The explosion of the prison population in recent decades is enabling towns where the prisons are located to unjustly increase their political power by counting inmates as legal residents, according to "Captive Constituents," a new report by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 | news
What do Louisianans want to see prioritized in their new political maps? A poll commissioned by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Louisiana, Fair Districts Louisiana, and Louisiana Progress finds equitable racial representation and more competition are top priorities. BATON ROUGE, LA | January 18, 2022—According to a new poll (https://louisianaprogress.org/redistrictingpoll), a majority of […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | news
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans natives are still struggling to move back into their homes. But Damon Hewitt, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, says racial inequities have stifled the road back home. Listen here.
