Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | page
“We Won’t Go Back” Why Students are Urging the Supreme Court to Support Race-Conscious Admissions By Keecee DeVenny Digital Strategist On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC) and found that Harvard and UNC’s affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of […]
Monday, October 1, 2012 | news
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city’s eight specialized high schools are for the best and the brightest and he thinks the best way to find those students is the way it’s been done for decades, using only the results of one 2.5-hour test. “I think that Stuyvesant and these other schools are as fair as […]
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 | case-issue
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina (UNC) Protecting Race-Conscious, Holistic Admissions Processes On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC) and found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the […]
Monday, July 30, 2018 | case-issue
BACKGROUND The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and local counsel Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak, & Cohen, P.C. represent twenty-six Harvard student and alumni organizations, comprised of thousands of Asian American, Black, Latinx, Native American, and white students and alumni, in their quest to protect the university’s holistic admissions process. The groups joined together […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | case-issue
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Thursday, October 14, 2021 | staff
Stuart C. Naifeh currently serves as Manager of the Redistricting Project at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). Using litigation, policy, and public education strategies, Stuart works to ensure that districting lines established in the wake of the 2020 census protect and enhance the voting power of Black communities. Prior to joining […]
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 | ldf-perspectives
Structural Racism is a Public Health Crisis May 27, 2020 Structural racism is a public health crisis. It is the underlying condition fueling disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. Our success at fighting the spread of COVID-19 and ensuring public health and safety is predicated on acknowledging and addressing the pre-existing condition of structural racism that enables this […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | page
Part 1 AFFH in Context Part 2 Striking a Balance Part 3 Connecting the Dots Part 4 Best Practices Part 5 Looking Ahead Part 2 Striking a Balance 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 How are […]
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
Stout vs. Jefferson Board of Education was filed in 1965—eleven years after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education—by LDF and local counsel, Oscar Adams on behalf of a class of Black schoolchildren. After several years of litigation, a federal trial court imposed a remedial desegregation plan in 1971, which remained in effect for over fifty […]
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 | news
New York, NY – Thirty-two law school and undergraduate students are the newest beneficiaries of a prestigious scholarship from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the organization announced today. Among the scholars are a student at Columbia Law School who spent part of his childhood homeless and a Harvard Law School student […]
