Tuesday, January 17, 2012 | news
The Fayette County Board of Education has agreed to settle its part of an NAACP lawsuit challenging the county’s voting process that the civil right group says has kept blacks from serving on the school board and county commission. Under the consent decree adopted by the school board Monday night, candidates for school board will […]
Monday, August 3, 2015 | case-update
Atlanta, Georgia — Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a request filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and cooperating Georgia attorney, Neil Bradley, to have district-based voting as the voting method for the upcoming special election for the successor of late Fayette County Commissioner, Pota […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Farrakhan v. Gregoire raises the question as to whether Washington State’s felon disfranchisement law violates Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act. Section 2 prohibits states from using any voting qualification that results in a denial of the right to vote on account of race or color. LDF and University Legal Assistance at Gonzaga University […]
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Falsehoods on Voting Have Disastrous Consequences Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. “This administration continues to perpetuate a falsehood, a falsehood with disastrous consequences for both communities who fought and continue to face systemic disenfranchisement and widespread faith […]
Monday, February 18, 2013 | news
Once again, the most avid supporters of capital punishment in Texas should be pleased that a scheduled execution has been stopped, at least temporarily. The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution Thursday of Duane Buck, the kind of person who, if you believe in capital punishment, fits the description of who should receive this most […]
Monday, August 24, 2015 | case-update
On Friday, August 21, lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and cooperating Louisiana attorney, Ronald L. Wilson, filed papers in Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, et al. v. Jindal, et al., a challenge under the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution to Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana’s discriminatory voting method for the 32nd Judicial District Court (32nd JDC). On behalf of […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | page
The Los Angeles County Experience Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing in America’s Largest County By Julián Castro Senior Fellow, the Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 Striking a Balance Part 3 Connecting the Dots Part 4 Best Practices Part 5 Looking Ahead Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 […]
Thursday, April 11, 2019 | ldf-perspectives
50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which Congress passed one week after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. King dedicated the last years of his life to the Chicago Freedom Movement, fighting housing discrimination and government policies that created segregation and […]
Thursday, March 15, 2018 | page
Friday, June 26, 2020 | news
WASHINGTON – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and leading civil rights groups in issuing the following statement on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest policy announcement on hate speech and voter disinformation: “While we welcome any progress in Facebook’s policies, today’s announcement continues the company’s […]
