Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | news
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which Congress passed one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. King dedicated the last years of his life to the Chicago Freedom Movement, fighting housing discrimination and government policies that created segregation and trapped black Chicagoans in high-poverty neighborhoods. This […]
Monday, September 24, 2012 | case-update
Today, in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, filed a brief opposing Shelby County, Alabama’s appeal to the Supreme Court. The case involves a challenge to the Section 5 “preclearance” provision of […]
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 | news
On October 5, Christina Swarns, LDF’s Director of Litigation, will present oral argument before the Supreme Court in Buck v. Davis, a case that raises extraordinary issues of racial bias in capital punishment sentencing. In 1997, a Texas jury sentenced Duane Buck to death rather than life in prison after a psychologist, introduced by Mr. Buck’s […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 | news
Watch as Janai Nelson discusses Georgia’s Voter Suppression ahead of the 2018 Midterm election with Chris Hayes on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 | news
Source: USA Today AI can be as impactful on our health, safety and well-being — in positive ways or in negative ways — as a new medicine or a new machine. We have to make certain that AI systems have been through comparable degrees of safety tests similar to those that would be used on […]
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 […]
