Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | news
By: MP McQueen Source: The National Law Journal A week after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act, now 50 years old, outlawed discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex or religion in housing sales, rentals or brokerage services. It was the […]
Monday, June 25, 2018 | news
By: Craig Melvin Source: MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin LDF Senior Counsel Ajmel Quereshi joined MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin to discuss the Trump Administration’s cruel immigration policies, and the two FOIA requests LDF filed last week to help locate and reunite families separated at the border.
Monday, October 30, 2017 | news
In 2016, the NAACP LDF, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Muslim Advocates asked the federal agency to begin investigating stories in the news of passengers who had been kicked off planes but hadn’t filed formal complaints. The Department of Transportation declined that request. That same year, agency investigators found that there had been no […]
Thursday, January 16, 2020 | page
CELEBRATING 80 YEARS OF CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY Join us on May 7, 2020 for a celebration commemorating this milestone. To learn more information, please email us at events@naacpldf.org or call (212) 965-2200.
Friday, April 6, 2018 | nejad
On Thursday, November 6, 2014, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) hosted its 28th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner (NEJAD) at the Hilton Midtown Hotel, 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 53rd Street. This year’s dinner culminated a year-long series of events commemorating the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. See event […]
Saturday, November 1, 2014 | news
LDF lawyers will be teaming up with local grassroots and legal partners to ensure maximum participation by voters of color in the midterm elections of November 2014. As part of our Prepared to Vote campaign, LDF attorneys will be on the ground on November 4 in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas: states where LDF litigation and advocacy has […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | news
Today, ahead of the November election, U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order providing interim relief to the 600,000 registered voters and 1.2 million eligible voters who lack one of the limited forms of photo identification (ID) that Texas law requires to vote in-person. The relief follows the NAACP Legal Defense and […]
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 | case-update
Today, ahead of the November election, U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order providing interim relief to the 600,000 registered voters and 1.2 million eligible voters who lack one of the limited forms of photo identification (ID) that Texas law requires to vote in-person. The relief follows the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, […]
Thursday, October 27, 2016 | news
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz urged his colleagues to block filling the current Supreme Court vacancy indefinitely, remarking that “[t]here is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices.” This statement and the Senate’s continued refusal to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Scalia, is dangerous and contrary […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 | news
Good afternoon, my name is Carmen Dixon, I am a Community Organizer at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for its Policing Reform Campaign. In early 2015, LDF along with Legal Aid Society settled our federal class action lawsuit, Davis v. City of New York, challenging trespass stops and arrests in NYCHA buildings. For […]
