Friday, June 6, 2025 | news
On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a proclamation imposing immigration and travel restrictions for people from 12 different countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. The President’s proclamation contains a number of harmful racial stereotypes and makes especially egregious comments about Haitian communities. The ban is set to take effect on June 9, 2025. […]
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | news
Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced plans to eliminate nearly half of all positions within the U.S. Department of Education, an extraordinary step toward executing the Project 2025 playbook to weaken federal civil rights enforcement and eliminate programs and resources vital to the agency’s mission of providing all students, including Black students, with equal educational opportunities. […]
Thursday, April 24, 2025 | news
On April 23, 2025, the White House issued a series of executive orders aimed at school accreditation, protections against discriminatory policies, and fair school discipline practices. These orders will make it harder for accreditors to ensure that colleges provide quality outcomes for all students, make it easier for schools to subject students to discriminatory disciplinary […]
Thursday, August 3, 2023 | news
On July 29, 28-year-old O’Shae Sibley, a gay Black man, was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station after he was reportedly attacked by a group of men who had berated Sibley and his friends with homophobic slurs. The New York Police Department is currently investigating the incident as a hate crime. No arrests […]
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly condemns the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) targeting of and excessive use of force in Black and Brown communities in connection with the enforcement of social distancing rules, and demands accountability for this unlawful conduct. This weekend, the NYPD announced it would deploy 1,000 […]
Sunday, June 7, 2020 | news
Janai Nelson, the Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the death of Robert Forbes and the recent wave of violence against peaceful protesters around the country: “LDF vehemently condemns the increasing wave of violence by white supremacists and armed white mercenaries against activists and […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. Earlier this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its long-standing position that binding arbitration agreements conflict with civil rights laws – laws which the agency is required to enforce. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) strongly condemns this decision, as it […]
Thursday, July 8, 2021 | news
Today, the 87th Texas legislature started a special session called by Governor Greg Abbott for the explicit purpose of forcing through measures that target Black and Brown Texans. Among these harmful measures is H.B. 3, a version of the omnibus voter suppression bill that failed to pass during the recently-ended regular legislative session. The NAACP […]
Friday, April 7, 2023 | news
On Thursday, the Tennessee House voted on a resolution to expel three members of the House for their involvement in a demonstration for gun control policies, following the recent killings of three children and three adults in a mass shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. Two of the members, Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin […]
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | news
Over the past weekend, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who has participated in campus protests and is a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mr. Khalil is currently detained at Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Jena, Louisiana. A federal judge has temporarily blocked […]
