Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
If Brown v. Board is Not Sacred, What is? Since the Supreme Court’s momentous decision in Brown v. Board of Education 65 years ago, there has been universal consensus within the legal community that the opinion striking down de jure segregation in our schools was correctly decided. As the most important civil rights ruling in […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 | news
ABC News takes a look at the percentage breakdown of the population in support of, and critical of, recent Supreme Court rulings on the Voting Right Act and in same-sex marriage. The research reveals continued idealogical differences among racial, gender, educational and generational lines. Read the full article here.
Friday, May 21, 2021 | case-issue
I.S. v. Binghamton School District was filed on April 29, 2019 by LDF and Morrison & Foerster LLP against the Binghamton School District on behalf of parents whose twelve-year-old daughters were subjected to an illegal strip search in January. The lawsuit comes after the school district failed to rectify the situation, including a refusal to issue an […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
An I-Team investigation uncovers the ethnic discrepancies at New York’s best public schools, and why groups are pushing for a change to the admission exam at schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech. Melissa Russo reports. View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.
Friday, September 28, 2012 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has filed a complaint charging an admissions test given at eight elite New York City high schools discriminates against blacks and Latinos. At this point, the only factor considered for admission to one of the specialized public schools is a student’s score on a standardized test. “Even Harvard doesn’t do that. […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Natural disasters can devastate communities, wreaking havoc on housing, employment stability, transportation, and infrastructure. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, these corollary effects are often exacerbated for low-income and minority families, due in part to the limited resources these households had before the disaster and the lack of organized networks to advocate on their behalf. […]
Monday, November 25, 2013 | news
Just last week, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied our client’s appeal and Duane Buck is now one step closer to being executed in Texas despite clear racial discrimination at his sentencing hearing. LDF started a photo campaign in which hundreds of people from all around the world have voiced their support for a new, […]
Thursday, September 23, 2010 | news
Tuesday's hearing in Farrakhan demonstrated the depth of the problem of discriminatory felon disenfranchisement laws. As Ryan Haygood from the NAACP LDF, arguing for the plaintiffs, noted at the conclusion of the argument, African Americans make up 23% of Washington State's prison inmates (but just 3.4 percent of the State's population), with prosecutors asking for […]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | news
Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to school at Jimmie Edwards’ Innovative Concept Academy. Edwards, a St. Louis Juvenile Court judge, started the public school in 2009 with the purpose of serving students who might otherwise be lost to […]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | news
A broad coalition of 38 civil rights, education reform and business groups sent House education chairman John Kline a scathing letter Wednesday, describing his No Child Left Behind legislation as potentially racist. “It undermines the core American value of equal opportunity in education embodied in Brown v. Board of Education,” the groups wrote. Their letter […]
