Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
LDF, Marriage Equality, and Loving v. Virginia The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) has long argued that the discriminatory history of racial restrictions on the right to marry illustrate how the exclusion of lesbian and gay couples from marriage perpetuates and enforces a caste system that violates our constitutional guarantees of freedom and equality. […]
Monday, July 2, 2018 | scholarship-rec
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families. The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, […]
Friday, March 30, 2018 | board-of-directors
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Friday, March 30, 2018 | staff
Monday, April 4, 2011 | news
“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. We had just completed a talk at the Hue-Man Bookstore […]
Thursday, September 4, 2025 | careers
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | news
It’s clear that Bloomington takes very seriously the idea that MLK Day is “a day on—not a day off.” For over two decades, you’ve held this ceremony as a way of symbolizing your commitment to the principles for which Dr. King lived and died. And for many years, many of you impressively have spent […]
