Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | news
Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the distribution of $2 billion in financial assistance to over 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who previously experienced discrimination when applying to USDA farm loan programs. These payments, provided through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), come two years after the bill was passed […]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | news
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge, the second Black woman to head the agency, has announced her retirement. During her three-year tenure Secretary Fudge proved to be a tireless guardian of fair housing practices and racial justice in housing. She marshalled the power of 8,000 employees and a $68 billion dollar budget to […]
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) is deeply disappointed by the Department of Justice’s decision not to bring federal hate-crime charges against George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American youth. Mr. Martin was one of several unarmed African-American men whose deaths at the hands of law enforcement and […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011 | news
Race, Gender, Discipline and Justice: Students Locked Out of a Quality Education (Savannah, GA) – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with the African American Male Achievement Group, Inc. (AMA) began a three-day multi-stakeholder convening to address issues surrounding race, gender and school discipline. The convening brings together policy, legal […]
Thursday, May 8, 2014 | news
(New York, NY) In a public service announcement invoking the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended “separate but equal” in classrooms, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund today called on all Americans to join together to end inequality. “Brown v. Board of Education was much […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 | news
Groups’ Amicus Briefs Defend Forty Years of Established Rules Assuring Opportunity for Everyone (Washington, D.C.) Two amicus briefs were filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Court challenging the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) claim that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFFCP) does not have authority […]
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 | news
LDF is the federal liaison for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a coalition of 98 organizations from 25 states dedicated to ending school pushout due to overly punitive school discipline practices that push students out of school and undermine life outcomes (www.dignityinschools.org). Read the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s letter on the Senate bill to reauthorize […]
Thursday, September 1, 2016 | news
As part of the Election Protection Coalition, the largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LDF sent an open letter to the leadership of the four political parties with presidential candidates in 2016. Along with 75 other civil rights, voting rights and civic engagement groups, we called […]
Monday, October 8, 2018 | news
Joining Several Other Civil Rights Groups in Sending a Letter For Failure to Acknowledge and Apologize for Writings That Express Troubling Racial Views The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined several other civil rights and consumer advocacy groups in sending a letter calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to […]
Thursday, December 13, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined Outten & Golden LLP in a federal lawsuit against NTT Data, Inc. for its discriminatory employment policies. According to the complaint, NTT, one of the world’s largest information technology service providers, relies on a background check policy that rejects applicants with criminal records, even when […]
