Monday, April 20, 2015 | case-update
On April 16, 2015, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously passed its Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization bill, the Every Child Achieves Act out of Committee by a vote of 22-0. The bill represents a bipartisan effort to renew the No Child Left Behind Act, which expired in 2007. […]
Monday, April 20, 2015 | news
On April 16, 2015, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously passed its Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization bill, the Every Child Achieves Act out of Committee by a vote of 22-0. The bill represents a bipartisan effort to renew the No Child Left Behind Act, which expired in 2007. […]
Saturday, October 20, 2018 | ldf-brochures
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | news
John Jackson: A New Take on ‘No Excuses’ We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. Lack of quality early-childhood care and education impedes healthy development and kindergarten readiness. Inadequate access to preventive and basic remedial health care substitute sick days and emergency room visits for […]
Friday, June 6, 2014 | news
This week, ERASE Racism, a Long Island-based nonprofit dedicated to exposing forms of racial discrimination and advocating for laws and policies that help eliminate racial disparities, honored LDF’s work. We are humbled to have been awarded the 2014 Abraham Krasnoff Courage and Commitment Award for our “outstanding advocacy in advancing civil rights and the rule […]
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | news
Elaine R. Jones, retired president and director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) and Howard University alumna, has been named the recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2011 Thurgood Marshall Award. In 1993, Jones became the first woman and only the fourth person to head LDF, the nation's oldest law firm […]
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | careers
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subsequently became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, LDF was launched at a time when the nation’s aspirations for equality and due process […]
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | page
Equal Protection Initiative Economic Justice Education Policy and Litigation LDF’s Equal Protection Initiative (EPI) is aimed at fully realizing the U.S. Constitution’s promise of equal protection under law by safeguarding, expanding, and deepening efforts to remove and remediate barriers to opportunity for Black people in the economy, our educational systems, and other areas through race-conscious […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | news
EPA SLAMS DOOR TO JUSTICE ON HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITY Despite Significant Evidence, EPA Closes Civil Rights Complaint Against Alabama Environmental Agency Today, leaders of a historic Black community in Tallassee, Alabama denounced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for closing a civil rights complaint filed in 2017 against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) in […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Using litigation and advocacy, LDF has fought over its 76-year history for the right of Black Americans to have access to clean air, water, land, public transportation, and other human necessities. For example, LDF has litigated several environmental justice cases, including: Clean Air Alternative Coalition v. U.S. Dept. of Transportation; Mothers of East Los Angeles v. California […]
