Friday, August 9, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 45 civil rights, public interest, labor, faith, and technology organizations in a statement ahead of today’s White House summit with technology companies on violent online extremism. The statement called on tech companies to publicly make the […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | news
Today LDF joined with a broad coalition of civil rights organizations to applaud the launch of the Department of Justice’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. The initiative will enlist a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five U.S. cities and will focus on training to […]
Friday, June 28, 2024 | news
Media Contacts Michelle Boykins, mboykins@advancingjustice-aajc.org Lacy Crawford, lcrawford@lawyerscommittee.org LDF Media, media@naacpldf.org WASHINGTON, DC – June 29th is the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC ruling that the limited consideration of race in higher education is unconstitutional. Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Latino […]
Thursday, January 10, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Drug Policy Alliance, National Immigration Law Center, and Lambda Legal for a press call today to discuss the Department of Justice’s important civil rights enforcement role and the need for the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine whether Attorney […]
Friday, April 8, 2011 | case-update
This week, LDF joined more than a dozen civil rights organizations in authoring a letter urging Congress to incorporate key accountability provisions as it reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The letter offers a number of recommendations to ensure that principles of educational equity won in Brown v. The Board of Education are fulfilled in […]
Thursday, August 9, 2018 | news
Along with Carlyle Parish LLC and the Bradley Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a significant case about racial discrimination in jury selection in the death penalty trial of Lisa Jo Chamberlin, a Mississippi woman. In the landmark decision of Batson v. Kentucky (1986), […]
Thursday, October 4, 2018 | news
Along with Carlyle Parish LLC and the Bradley Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a significant case about racial discrimination in jury selection in the death penalty trial of Lisa Jo Chamberlin, a Mississippi woman. In the landmark decision of Batson v. Kentucky (1986), […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 | news
Read the PDF version here. Citing Uncertainty of Next Administration’s Commitment to Criminal Justice Reform, Broad Coalition of Criminal Justice Reform Advocates, Former Judges and Prosecutors, Legal Scholars Call On President to Expand Clemency Eligibility A broad coalition of criminal justice reform advocates, former judges and prosecutors, and legal scholars urged President Obama today to […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | case-update
LDF joined a broad coalition of civil rights groups, business associations, statewide education officials, and education advocates in declining to support the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2011. This bill, proposed by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin and Ranking Member Richard Enzi, does not contain an accountability framework sufficient to narrow achievement gaps for […]
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | news
Media Contacts Legal Defense Fund (LDF) – media@naacpldf.org / 212-965-2200 Quinn, Connor, Weaver, Davis, & Rouco LLP – rrouco@qcwdr.com / 205-918-7430 [Newbern, Alabama]—Today, the Legal Defense Fund joined as co-counsel and filed a proposed second amended complaint in Braxton et al., v. Stokes et al., a federal lawsuit challenging racially discriminatory voting and electoral […]
