Wednesday, July 3, 2024 | news
This week marked the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA). The CRA, signed into law on July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon Johnson, enacted key protections to forbid discrimination and promote equality for all. Among other transformational provisions, the landmark civil rights legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis […]
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 | news
NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations (OSF) announced today it is awarding a $15 million grant to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) the nation’s first and foremost civil and human rights, law organization, in recognition of the vital role civil rights lawyers play in securing, defending, and protecting democracy. The grant will […]
Friday, April 4, 2025 | news
Today, the U.S. Department of Education sent letters to K-12 state education agencies threatening to withhold federal funding from public schools unless they verify that they comply with their incorrect interpretation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. This most recent announcement, which follows the […]
Friday, April 4, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) reached a settlement in Housing Opportunities Made Equal Inc. (HOME) v. Avant Realty – a lawsuit born out of HOME’s investigation into the company’s real estate practices. The lawsuit and settlement come after HOME alleged Avant Realty limited housing opportunities for Black residents of Buffalo, New York through racial […]
Friday, June 25, 2021 | news
Plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), co-counsel Covington & Burling, LLP and veteran civil rights lawyer, Geraldine Sumter of Ferguson Chambers & Sumter, P.A. have reached a settlement in Allen v. Graham. This lawsuit was filed on behalf of marchers and prospective voters who were pepper sprayed by law […]
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined its co-counsel in signing an agreement with the Connecticut State Department of Education to further the implementation of desegregation remedies required by Sheff v. O’Neill, the landmark Connecticut Supreme Court case which required the State to end the racial and ethnic segregation faced by Hartford […]
Thursday, June 23, 2016 | case-update
A new agreement was reached in the ongoing Sheff vs. O’Neill case to continue the existing desegregation efforts at schools in Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding suburbs through at least June 30, 2017. The most recent stipulationsets new goals, including increasing by 300 the number of seats in suburban schools that are available to students in Hartford through […]
Friday, October 13, 2023 | news
On Wednesday, a federal court entered an order memorializing an agreement between the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and the Board of Education of Fayette County in Tennessee in a school desegregation case. LDF, along with local counsel Elijah Noel Jr., Of Counsel at Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, PLLC, represents Black students and their parents as […]
Friday, June 2, 2023 | news
On May 31, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that law enforcement officials raided the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, arresting and charging three of its staff with charity fraud and money laundering. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement: “We are deeply concerned about the apparent targeting […]
Thursday, March 22, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Johns Hopkins University is requesting permission from Maryland lawmakers to create its own private police force. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to the school’s president raising a number of concerns with the proposal, including that the plan lacks sufficient accountability measures and […]
