Wednesday, June 19, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) supports the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (H.R. 40 and Senate Bill S.1083) – bills that would establish a commission to study the effects of slavery in the United States and the subsequent actions taken by federal, state, and local governments to perpetuate […]
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 | ldf-at-work
Friday, November 22, 2013 | news
LDF stands in support of the Senate’s action today to resolve the judicial confirmation crisis that has interfered with the essential functioning of our federal judiciary. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel stated: With one of every ten federal judgeships vacant, it is imperative that the confirmation process work properly. Our clients and countless victims of discrimination around the […]
Friday, March 6, 2015 | case-update
LDF applauds the introduction of the Keep Kids in School Act by Senator Robert Casey (D-PA), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). The bill promotes positive and inclusive school climates and addresses discipline disparities. For example, African American students are suspended or expelled at three times the rate of their […]
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony in support of SB 96, which is pending before the Maryland legislature and would permanently repeal the authority of the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore to sell tax liens based on water debt at the city’s annual tax sale. Baltimore’s price […]
Friday, March 27, 2015 | news
Sens. Schatz, Paul & Reps. Brown, Ellison, Cummings Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Help Expand Responsible Use of Police Body Cameras “…Decades of distrust between communities of color and law enforcement have been magnified by the recent rash of police violence perpetrated against unarmed African-Americans,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense […]
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc (LDF) sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing unequivocal support for the nomination of Kristen Clarke to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice (DOJ). At such a critical time in our nation’s history, it’s of paramount […]
Friday, May 9, 2025 | news
Last night, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the NAACP and the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Inc. (“MAEC”) challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s unlawful elimination of the federal equity assistance center program (“EAC program”) and related grants. Since 1964, Congress has appropriated critical funding to equity assistance centers, like […]
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the National Academy of Education (NAEd) and National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), two education research organizations, challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to no longer collect, maintain, analyze, and […]
Friday, May 18, 2018 | news
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has failed to produce records related to the agency’s civil rights investigations and policies, according to a new lawsuit. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed the lawsuit to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about DOE policies that could strip students of critical civil rights […]
