Wednesday, April 20, 2016 | news
Richard Rothstein and Phillip Atiba Goff Join LDF’s New Research and Advocacy Hub The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is thrilled to announce today the selection of Richard Rothstein and Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff as Senior Fellows of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute. Launched in 2015, the Thurgood Marshall Institute […]
Thursday, May 19, 2016 | news
Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced that former United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. will join the organization’s National Board of Directors. Holder was the first African-American Attorney General of the United States, who was appointed by the first African-American president of the United States. Mr. Holder, who […]
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) tapped two leading civil rights attorneys to direct the organization’s robust and expanding litigation practice as threats to the civil and human rights of Black people and other marginalized groups continue to rise. Deuel Ross and Christopher Kemmitt, who have been members of LDF’s litigation team for over a […]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | case-update
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and African-American voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 | news
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed a motion seeking to intervene in a lawsuit on behalf of the Florida State Conference of the NAACP and African-American voters to prevent the State of Florida from implementing discriminatory voting laws. In the lawsuit, Florida v. United States, Florida asks a federal court to approve, under […]
Friday, January 7, 2022 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the loss of Professor Lani Guinier, a trailblazing educator and acclaimed scholar, civil rights lawyer, and former LDF attorney who dedicated her prodigious career to making America’s democracy more accessible and representative of the nation’s diversity, as well as producing leading scholarship on how […]
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 | news
Rev. Joseph Lowery (Courtesy of John Matthew Smith) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of Reverend Doctor Joseph Echols Lowery, the “dean” of the civil rights movement who played a critical role in laying its foundations and shepherding its triumphs. On March 27, Rev. Lowery passed away peacefully at […]
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | news
It is with great sadness that LDF mourns the passing of Chokwe Lumumba, the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Mayor Lumumba was a revered civil rights lawyer, a human rights activist, and, as the co-founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, a true revolutionary. He devoted himself completely to principles of freedom and self-determination for black […]
Wednesday, August 11, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) deeply mourns the passing of longtime board member Karen Hastie Williams, a trailblazing lawyer who broke barriers of race and gender during a career that spanned both government and the private sector. The first Black woman to serve as a United States Supreme Court clerk, Ms. […]
Monday, February 3, 2020 | news
Judge Nathaniel R. Jones May 12, 1926 – January 26, 2020 The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the passing of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, who died on January 26, 2020 at the age of 93. A dedicated lawyer who helped lead the charge against northern school segregation as General Counsel […]
