Monday, December 17, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to reports that Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election included massive efforts against African Americans: “These extraordinary revelations should be of the gravest concern to anyone who cares about the integrity of our […]
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here Confirmation of DeVos Shameful Dereliction of Duty Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on Confirmation of Betsy DeVos On news that the Senate confirmed the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Director of Policy Todd […]
Thursday, March 7, 2019 | news
To ensure that another generation of Black and Brown students in Baltimore are not held back from realizing their dreams because of unconstitutional and inequitable education funding, a group of concerned parents and civil rights organizations are returning to court today to reopen the historic Bradford vs. Maryland State Board of Education litigation that spurred […]
Thursday, May 9, 2024 | news
Yesterday, Cultural & Racial Equity for Every Dragon (CREED) and the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC) submitted an open letter to the Carroll Independent School District (CISD), in Southlake, Texas, urging it to negotiate in good faith with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to remedy serious civil rights violations. Earlier this […]
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 | news
The State of Maryland In Violation of Court Orders Requiring Full Funding for Students in Baltimore City See videos of parents and students: https://www.aclu-md.org/bradford Read the letter here. BALTIMORE – The State of Maryland has failed to address the abysmal conditions in Baltimore City schools, leading to classrooms without heat and students wearing winter coats […]
Friday, October 5, 2012 | news
It seemed like a good strategy: To boost the tiny number of black and Hispanic students at the city’s most elite high schools, the city this year expanded access to programs meant to prepare eighth-graders for the schools’ admissions test. But that approach is fundamentally broken, according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which today filed a […]
Thursday, January 27, 2022 | 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 […]
Monday, December 16, 2024 | news
Media Contacts: Troi Barnes, media@naacpldf.org Alejandra Lopez, The Legal Aid Society, ailopez@legal-aid.org Alora Sherbert, Queens Defenders, press@queensdefenders.org ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** (New York, NY) – Today, multiple organizations and advocates convened a press conference and rally on the steps of City Hall ahead of a New York City Council oversight hearing on the New York […]
Friday, December 11, 2020 | case-issue
On December 17 2019, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (CHHIRJ) at Harvard Law School filed an amicus brief in the matter of Commonwealth v. Evelyn urging the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to recognize that an individual’s identity as a Black teenage boy […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
On January 16, 2008, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge William Mazzola threw out the death sentence of LDF client, Raymond Whitney. Mr. Whitney, an African-American man, had been on Pennsylvania’s death row for twenty-six years. Not only was Mr. Whitney inadequately represented at trial, on appeal, and in his first post-conviction proceedings, he was […]
