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Workplace Giving

Workplace Giving Programs Support LDF with a Workplace Giving Campaign. Each year, LDF is fortunate to receive the support of dozens of companies and thousands of their employees through workplace giving campaigns. Funding from workplace giving campaigns support LDF’s litigation, policy advocacy, community organizing, and public education efforts. LDF uses these tools to bring about […]

Working to End Tax Lien Sales

LDF recently sent a letter to local officials in Cuyahoga County, Ohio urging them to implement a temporary moratorium on tax lien sales until after an investigation can be done and reforms made to the system. Recently, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on our efforts:  “The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has called for Cuyahoga County to […]

Women of Selma: The Backbone of a Movement

The Women of Selma: The Backbone of a Movement By Keecee DeVenny Senior Digital Media Strategist Every year, LDF sojourns to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the men, women, and children who braved state-sanctioned police violence as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in peaceful demand for their right to vote. This year’s journey […]

WNYC: State’s second highest court hears arguments in prisoner redistricting case

The New York Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the lawsuit to overturn a law passed by the 2010 Democratic legislative majority that would count prison inmates in the communities they are from, instead of in the towns and counties where they’re incarcerated. The lawsuit was brought by six Senate Republicans–many of whom would […]

With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility: Facebook Announces Changes to “Ethnic Affinity” Ad Targeting

Deputy Director of Litigation Coty Montag and Harvard Public Interest Fellow Elizabeth Reese wrote a piece discussing Facebook’s actions to implement policies to deter discriminatory ethnic affinity advertisements. They note: “Regrettably, there has always been a market for discrimination in this country. The United States has a long history of targeting racial minorities with products […]

With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility:

Facebook Announces Changes to “Ethnic Affinity” Ad Targeting Coty Montag, Deputy Director of Litigation Elizabeth Reese, Harvard Public Interest Fellow Last week, Facebook announced that it is taking several actions to deter and disable advertisements that may discriminate based on ethnic affinity. Why is this so important? Imagine two people, both 18 and from Washington, DC, who […]

WilmerHale Announces John A. Payton Fellowship

WilmerHale has announced today the launch of the John A. Payton Summer Associate Fellowship honoring the late John A. Payton, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Sixth President and Director-Counsel and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP, later WilmerHale, for more than ten years. “Establishing the Fellowship was a way for WilmerHale to honor John, […]

William Taylor, Vigorous Rights Defender, Dies at 78

William L. Taylor, who as a lawyer, lobbyist and government official for more than a half century had significant roles in pressing important civil rights cases and in drafting and defending civil rights legislation, died Monday in Bethesda, Md. He was 78 and lived in Washington. 

William T. Coleman Jr. Awarded Harvard Medal

William T. Coleman Jr., former chairman of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s board of directors, was awarded the 2013 Harvard Medal from the Harvard Alumni Association for his extraordinary service to the University. The Harvard Medal marks yet another achievement in Bill Coleman’s remarkable career, which has been defined, in part, by groundbreaking accomplishments in […]

William M. Lewis