Thursday, June 4, 2015 | news
What Obama’s New Military-Equipment Rules Mean for K-12 School Police “I definitely think it’s a step in the right direction,” Janel George, senior education policy council at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tells Rolling Stone. “It does show that the administration, particularly the local law enforcement equipment working group, heard our concerns.” Read the […]
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | news
Honor Selma by Restoring the Voting Rights Act “Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, was simply wrong when he recently suggested the Voting Rights Act should not be updated because “more minorities are already voting.” His statement asserts a novel and misguided test for determining the necessity of the Voting Rights Act. It also […]
Monday, October 6, 2014 | news
In an op-ed in Alabama.com, Leslie Proll, the director of LDF’s Washington D.C. offices urges Alabama to fill vanancies on the state’s federal bench noting that the state has never had a federal appellate judge of color. “It is time to desegregate Alabama’s delegation on the federal appellate bench,” Proll writes. Vacancies must be filled […]
Monday, March 23, 2015 | news
A Test of Free Speech and Bias, Served on a Plate From Texas Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the Confederate flag has only one fundamental meaning. “It’s a powerful symbol of the oppression of black people,” she said in an interview. Read the full article here
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | news
LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson highlights the fine line Obama must walk in order to be the President for all Americans while making his mark on race relations in the aftermath of Brown and Garner deaths: “We are really on a precipice of either going in the right direction or entrenching a very perilous racial […]
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | news
Everyone knows that the Road Home Program, though well intentioned, has been deeply flawed since its inception. In 2007, working with the National Fair Housing Alliance, my staff at the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Center and I set out to right at least one of the major program flaws. The Road Home Program was […]
Thursday, October 6, 2011 | news
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth 1922 – 2011 Last year the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth was one of `eleven civil rights pioneers to sign a friend-of-the-court brief written by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and co-counsel in Hithon v. Tyson Foods, Inc. That brief challenged a ruling of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court […]
Sunday, July 21, 2024 | news
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speaks on LDF’s panel on the state of voting rights at the 2023 Selma Jubilee Weekend in Selma, Alabama on Mar. 4, 2023. (Photo by Melissa Golden for LDF) LDF Tribute to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) mourns the loss of Sheila Jackson Lee, U.S. Representative for […]
Thursday, October 6, 2011 | news
Derrick Bell 1930 – 2011 We remained inspired by his ethical ambition.
Sunday, September 16, 2018 | news
New York, New York – In light of recent sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill renewed LDF’s call for the Senate Judiciary Committee to postpone its upcoming confirmation vote in the following statement: “It is critical that the Senate Judiciary Committee take seriously […]
