Friday, February 2, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Provides Feedback on Independent Monitor’s Draft Plan for First Year of Implementing Policing Reform Agreement in Baltimore Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Kenneth Thompson, Baltimore’s independent monitor overseeing the January 2017 policing reform consent decree, providing feedback on the […]
Thursday, March 15, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Provides Feedback on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Use-of-Force Policies As part of the consent decree between the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), the BPD must revise its use-of-force policies to address the DOJ’s findings of a pattern or practice of excessive force and […]
Monday, July 9, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign As part of the consent decree between the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) and the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ), the BPD must revise a number of policies, including its Fair and Impartial Policing Policy, which prohibits discriminatory policing. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to […]
Friday, November 1, 2024 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has long trained and worked with nonpartisan poll monitor volunteers who help ensure voters can exercise the right to vote by casting ballots safely and efficiently. These volunteers play an essential role in protecting our elections and advancing democratic principles by providing nonpartisan information about voting and by observing the […]
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 | news
The Atlantic Philanthropies and Columbia University today announced the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a 10-year, $60 million program for courageous and creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism in the United States and South Africa, two nations with deep and enduring legacies of racial exclusion and violence. The program – conceived, designed and led […]
Thursday, August 2, 2012 | news
On July 12, 2012, the United States District Court of the Western District of Louisiana ruled in favor of LDF’s clients in Thomas v. St. Martin Parish School Board, denying the school board’s motions to dismiss this long-standing Louisiana school desegregation case. The ruling came after the St. Martin Parish School Board offered an unorthodox […]
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | news
Urges Arkansas to Expand Opportunities for Voters to Obtain Photo IDs In a May 5, 2014 letter to Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin and county clerks across Arkansas, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) expressed grave concerns over how the haphazard way in which state and county officials have implemented the new voter photo […]
Monday, September 23, 2024 | news
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson has sent a letter to Missouri’s Governor Parson, urging him to stop the execution of Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams scheduled for September 24, 2024. Last month, the Circuit Court of St. Louis County entered a consent judgment accepting the Alford plea of Mr. Williams and sentencing Mr. Williams to life […]
Monday, September 23, 2024 | post
LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson has sent a letter to Missouri’s Governor Parson, urging him to stop the execution of Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams scheduled for September 24, 2024. Last month, the Circuit Court of St. Louis County entered a consent judgment accepting the Alford plea of Mr. Williams and sentencing Mr. Williams to life […]
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | news
By: MSNBC Source: ‘Everyday Racism in America’: Real stories of racial bias On May 29th, 8,000 Starbucks stores across the country closed for anti-bias training following the arrest of two black men. The same day, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill, joined a town hall hosted by Joy Reid and Chris […]
