Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) calls for immediate redress for the death of Freddie Gray and the long record of excessive use of force by the Baltimore Police Department in order to de-escalate tensions in Baltimore during this difficult period. The announcement of a state of emergency and the deployment of the […]
Friday, February 21, 2014 | case-update
LDF, along with local counsel Mitra Jafary-Hariri of the Michigan-based law firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and CohnLLP, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in three cases challenging juvenile life without parole sentencing in the state of Michigan. The Michigan Supreme Court cases, People v. Carp, People v. Eliason, and People v. Davis, will determine the fate of 360 or more youth serving life without […]
Friday, July 8, 2022 | news
Today, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services to defend reproductive rights throughout the country by directing federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security to take a series of steps that […]
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | news
Like all children in the State of Maryland, Black and Brown children in Baltimore City Schools have the right to an adequate public education under the State constitution. Recently, the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future legislation, which adjusts the state’s formula for funding schools, was passed by Maryland’s House of Delegates. While the bill’s funding increase […]
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | news
Today, LDF presented testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights hearing on “The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States.” Our testimony addresses the federal reforms suggested by LDF to increase oversight, accountability and transparency of local law enforcement. We believe that Congress can […]
Friday, May 7, 2021 | news
Today, less than one month before the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released “We Are Not Lesser,” a report examining the pronounced disparities in Tulsa’s policing practices, including its arrests of Black youth, Black adults, and uses of force against Black Tulsans. “We Are Not […]
Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | news
Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), in partnership with Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, released “Advancing An Alternative to Police: Community-Based Services for Black People with Mental Illness,” a brief examining the incarceration, institutionalization, and police violence that Black people with mental illness, and all people with mental illness, face in law enforcement encounters when community-based mental health services […]
Thursday, August 4, 2011 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, along with a broad coalition of civil rights groups, education advocates, public rights groups, and others, sent a letter urging federal involvement in accountability through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). This letter marks the first time that such as broad assemblage of organizations has spoken in […]
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | news
On March 13, 26-year-old emergency medical technician Breonna Taylor was brutally killed in her own apartment after being shot at least eight times by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers, who entered her residence unannounced in the middle of the night as they executed a search warrant at the wrong home. The NAACP Legal Defense […]
Thursday, March 3, 2016 | news
The release of a shocking video showing a Baltimore school police officer slapping and kicking a young man at a city school is a distressing reminder of persistent police violence against unarmed Black youth. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) condemns the actions of the officer in the video and calls for a thorough and transparent […]
