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LDF Sends Letter to Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron Requesting New Special Prosecutor and Grand Jury for the Shooting ...

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Named The American Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year

LDF Issues Statement on House Vote to Impeach President Donald Trump for a Second Time Following Capitol Insurrection

LDF Files Amended Complaint in Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Executive Order; American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity ...

LDF Submits Comments on the Implementation of Ferguson Consent Decree

LDF Issues Statement on President-elect Biden’s Nominees for Attorney General and Key Department of Justice Leadership Positions

LDF Issues Statement Condemning Breach of U.S. Capitol, Attempted Coup by Supporters of President Trump

LDF Issues Statement on Historic Georgia Runoff Election Results

LDF Issues Statement on Kenosha County District Attorney Declining to Seek Charges Against Police Officer Responsible for Jacob ...

LDF Congratulates the 117th Congress and Congressional Black Caucus

LDF Issues Statement on President Trump’s Attempts to Pressure Georgia Secretary of State to Overturn Election

LDF Issues Statement on Bill Combining Stimulus Payments with Creation of Unnecessary Commission on Election Fraud

#YearInReview: Highlights from 2020

LDF, Partner Organizations Commend Court Decision in Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Center v. Trump

LDF Files Agreement Requiring USPS to Implement Key Measures to Prioritize and Expedite Ballot Delivery in Georgia Runoff ...

LDF Issues Statement on Governor Cuomo Signing Automatic Voter Registration Bill into Law

LDF Issues Statement on Attorney General William Barr’s Final Day with Trump Administration

LDF, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Open Society Policy Center, and Center for Policing ...

LDF Files Amended Complaint in its Lawsuit Against President Trump and His Campaign’s Attempts to Overturn the Election ...

Voting Rights Advocates Urge Officials in Ten Georgia Counties to Reject Baseless Mass Challenges to Voter Eligibility

Supreme Court Vacates Case Challenging Trump Administration’s Memorandum Excluding Undocumented People from Census Count

Voting Advocates Urge Hall County, Georgia to Maintain Early Voting for January Runoff

Baltimore Right to Education Legal Team Pushes Governor, State Leaders to Support Students’ Right to an Education

Advocates and Parents of Baltimore City School Students Urge Maryland Officials to Provide Adequate Funding for Baltimore City ...

The Leadership Conference Education Task Force Issues Statement on the Next Secretary of Education

LDF Files United States Supreme Court Cert Petition to Consider Jury Discrimination Issue in Death Penalty Case

LDF Issues Statement on Trump Administration’s Plans to Execute Five People Before End of Time in Office

Cobb County Announces Changes to Early Voting Following Pressure from Voting Rights Advocates

LDF Urges Cobb County, Georgia to Maintain Early Voting Locations for Upcoming Runoff

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Student Borrower Protection Center Announce Fair Lending Testing Agreement with Upstart ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Rehearing En Banc in Lawsuit Challenging the Baltimore Police Department’s Aerial Surveillance Program

Voting Rights Advocates Urge Georgia Secretary of State to Remove Barriers to the Ballot Ahead of January Senate ...

Federal Court Allows LDF’s Lawsuit Challenging Louisville’s Militaristic Response to Peaceful Protests to Continue

LDF Releases Report on Grand Jury Proceedings Involving the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor, Calls for Special Prosecutor ...

LDF Files Lawsuit Against President Trump and the Trump Campaign’s Attempts to Overturn the Election by Disenfranchising Black ...

LDF Demands Independent Investigation Into the Death of Quawan “Bobby” Charles

LDF Files Emergency Amicus Brief Supporting a Motion to Stay the Federal Execution of Orlando Cordia Hall

LDF Urges Mississippi Governor to Reinstitute a Statewide Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures

LDF Opposes the Nomination of Kathryn Mizelle to the United States District Court for the Middle District of ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on Congress To Investigate Senator Lindsey Graham’s Conduct

LDF Mourns the Loss of Drew S. Days III, Revered Civil Rights Attorney and Law Professor, Former U.S. ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Challenging Trump Administration’s Memorandum Excluding Undocumented People from 2020 Census Count

LDF Submits Written Testimony to New York City Council Committee on Technology

LDF Senior Counsel Coty Montag Testifies in Support of Water Accountability and Equity Act Modifications Bill (CB 20-0626)

First Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Lower Court’s Judgment that Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Program is Legal and Permissible

Statement from the Voting Rights Working Group on Counting Every Vote in the 2020 Election

LDF Statement on President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

LDF Webpage Provides Accurate Information, Updates on USPS Case

LDF Issues Statement on Disclaimer Ruling for President Trump’s Law Enforcement Commission

LDF Issues Statement on Intimidation of Ballot Counters

LDF Files Cert Petition with U.S. Supreme Court in Case Challenging Qualified Immunity

Coalition of Civil Rights Leaders Demand All Ballots be Counted

LDF Rejects President Trump’s Efforts to Undermine Democratic Process as Votes Continue to Be Counted

LDF Issues Statement on Voter Suppression, Misinformation, and Machine Malfunctions on Election Day

LDF Issues Statement on USPS Court-Ordered Actions to Deliver Ballots on Time

LDF and Co-Counsel File Lawsuit on Behalf of Pepper-Sprayed Voters in North Carolina

Coalition Demands Florida Secretary of State Immediately Restore Voter Information Lookup Tool

NAACP Legal Defense Fund, National Urban League, National Fair Housing Alliance File Suit Against Trump Administration; African American ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Michigan’s Guidance Banning the Open Carrying of Firearms at Polling Places and Other ...

LDF Statement on Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court

LDF and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence Urge Texas Attorney General to Condemn Voter Intimidation

Coalition Urges Florida Attorney General to Speak Out Against Voter Intimidation Amid Reports of Illegal Activity

Voting Rights Groups Send Letter to Georgia Election Officials Regarding Voters Who Requested Absentee Ballots Voting In Person

National Fair Housing Alliance Challenges Harmful Trump Administration Reversal of Fair Housing Rule

Civil Rights Groups Oppose Judge Barrett Nomination and Process

LDF Statement on End of Nomination Hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett

Statement on Florida Officials’ Plans to Remove Returning Citizens from Florida’s Voter Roll

LDF Testifies Before NYC Human Rights Commission In Support of Rule to Strengthen Ban on Hair Discrimination

LDF Testifies Before NYC Human Rights Commission In Support of Rule to Strengthen Ban on Hair Discrimination

LDF Partners with BIPOC Artists to Launch “They Can’t. We Can.” Voting Campaign Honoring Victims of Police Violence

LDF Responds to Supreme Court Decision to Halt Census Count

LDF Objects to the Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Releases Report Outlining Objection

LDF Responds to DOJ Lawsuit Against Yale Regarding Race-Conscious Admissions Process

Civil Rights Groups Urge Barr to Protect Voters from White Supremacist Threats at the Polls

LDF Clients Testify at Philadelphia City Council Hearing About Police Violence Employed Against Residents of a Predominantly Black ...

Civil Rights Groups and Allies Condemn White House Move to Censor Race and Gender Equity Training

LDF Files FOIA Requests Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping

Voting and Civil Rights Organizations Demand Gov. Abbott Rescind Anti-Voter Proclamation

LDF Issues Statement on Release of Grand Jury Audio Recordings in Breonna Taylor Case

Court Rules that Presidential Law Enforcement Commission Violated Federal Law

Federal Court Rules Alabama Must Take Steps to Better Protect Voters During COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF, ACLU of Michigan, National Consumer Law Center, and Michigan Poverty Law Program File Class Action Fair Housing ...

LDF Issues Statement on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination to the United States Supreme Court

Voting Rights Coalition Sends Letter to Escambia County Officials on the Need for more Early Voting Sites and ...

LDF Issues Statement in Response to President Trump’s Executive Order

Civil Rights Leaders Issue Statement on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy and the Supreme Court’s Critical Role in ...

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Highlights Ways DOJ Has Failed its Mandate in House Judiciary Testimony

Grand Jury Fails to Indict Three Louisville Metro Police Department Officers for Killing of Breonna Taylor; Indicts One ...

Civil Rights Coalition Sends Letter to House and Senate Education Committees Requesting Sufficient Targeted Education Funding

LDF Submits Written Testimony in the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in Favor of Repealing the Maryland Law ...

LDF and Ferguson Collaborative Submit Joint Comments on the Ferguson Police Department’s Draft Policies on First Amendment Activity

LDF Issues Statement on the Timeline for Selecting the Next United States Supreme Court Justice

LDF Comments on the Implementation of the Ferguson Consent Decree

LDF Honors Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Icon of American Jurisprudence and Ardent Civil Rights Defender

LDF Issues Statement on Passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Massachusetts’ Highest Court Issues Mixed Ruling on Police Seizure of Black Teenager, Setting New Standards for State Court ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief with Supreme Court in Support of Overturning the Judicial Override for Capital Punishment in ...

Voting Rights Activists Call on Georgia Secretary of State to Mandate Ballot Drop Boxes

LDF and More Than A Vote Launch “We Got Next” Poll Worker Recruitment Campaign

LDF Delivers Oral Argument in First Day of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Appeal

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Louisiana Voters Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF Statement on House Judiciary Committee Considering CROWN Act

LDF Statement on Louisville Settlement with Family of Breonna Taylor

LDF Files Amicus Brief Opposing Buffalo Unions’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Prevent Disclosure of Certain Police Department ...

Federal Appeals Court Affirms Wealth-Based Barriers to Voting

Video Release: Cleveland Water Case

Recommendations for Conducting a Safe General Election During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Janai Nelson Joins Meet the Press to Discuss the Upcoming November Election and Access to the Ballot

LDF Responds to HUD’s Move to Roll Back Discrimination Protections

Agreement Reached in Criminal History Screening Case

LDF Responds to U.S. Attorney General Barr’s Failure to Condemn Voting Twice, Comments on Police Brutality

LDF Files Amicus Brief Challenging Racial Impact of NYC’s Third Party Transfer Program

LDF Sends Recommendations for Conducting a Safe General Election During the COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF and Public Citizen File Preliminary Injunction Motion on Behalf of the NAACP Against the USPS to Suspend ...

LDF Releases Principles for Racially Equitable and Inclusive School Re-openings

LDF Submits Comments on Proposed Georgia State Election Board Amendments

Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations Urge Georgia Secretary of State to Refrain from Transferring Voters to Inactive Status ...

LDF Submits FOIA Request with Department of Justice for Information Underlying Findings About Yale University’s Admissions Program

Civil Rights Leaders Issue Statement on Armed White Militia Violence Against Protesters and Police Camaraderie with Militia Members

LDF Statement on Court Ruling That Gloucester County School Board’s Bathroom Policy Unconstitutionally Discriminates Against Transgender Students

LDF Joins Community Members Calling to Reopen Investigations into the Killing of Muhammad Muhaymin, Jr.

LDF Signs on to Letter Urging TX Governor Greg Abbott to Use Emergency Powers to Protect Voting Rights

LDF and Co-Counsel File for Temporary Restraining Order Against Louisville Metro Police Department Over Use of Crowd-Control Weaponry

LDF Launches Voting Rights Microsite Ahead of the November General Election

LDF Statement on the Police Shooting of Jacob Blake

LDF Statement on Court Decision to Deny Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to Prevent Release of Police Disciplinary ...

LDF Urges the Dorchester County Board of Elections to Restore Polling Site at Sand Hill United Methodist Church

LDF and Public Citizen File Lawsuit on Behalf of the NAACP Against the USPS to Suspend Implementation of ...

Federal Appeals Court Hearing Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law Obstructing Voting Rights Restoration in Florida

Court Grants LDF’s Request to Enjoin Enforcement of a Discriminatory Dress and Grooming Policy Against a Black High ...

Coalition of National Civil Rights Organizations File Amicus Brief Opposing Unions’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Prevent Disclosure ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Reid Out to Discuss Protecting the USPS, Mail-In Voting and the 2020 Election

North Carolina Supreme Court Issues Momentous Decision on Death Penalty Racial Discrimination Case

LDF Launches Toolkit for Community Oversight of Police Union Contracts to Support Advocates in Efforts to Hold Police ...

LDF Files Petition for Rehearing En Banc in Case Challenging Alabama’s Photo ID Law

LDF Issues Statement on Trump Executive Order on Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures

LDF and NHLAA Urge Connecticut Secretary of State to Take Immediate Action to Correct Significant Absentee Ballot Issues

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Supports Federal Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act

Groups Urge Federal Appeals Court to Affirm Wealth-Based Barriers to Voting are Unconstitutional

LDF Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana’s Voting Requirements for November and December Elections

LDF and Student Borrower Protection Center Send Letter to Financial Technology Firm over Equal Credit Opportunity Act and ...

LDF Files Complaint Against City of Louisville for Military-Style Response to Peaceful Protests

LDF Responds to President Trump’s Suggestion to Delay the 2020 Election

The New York Voting Rights Consortium Sends Letter to New York State Officials Expressing Concerns Over the New ...

LDF Calls on Internet Service Providers to Make Online Learning Accessible for Students of Color Through the Duration ...

Civil Rights Groups Call for Strong Guardrails in Hiring Assessment Technologies

Coalition Letter: Honor Rep. John Lewis by Passing the VRAA and HEROES Act

Civil Rights Coalition Urges Congress to Pay Tribute to John Lewis by Passing the HEROES Act and the ...

Questions for Attorney General William Barr During House Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing of the Department of Justice on ...

Civil Rights Leaders Demand Senate Censure of Tom Cotton’s Defense of Slavery

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Organizations Call for Congressional Public Hearings on Deployment of Federal Agents to American ...

LDF Statement on The Trump Administration’s Termination of the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

Leading Civil Rights & Housing Groups Condemn President’s Effort to Gut Fair Housing, Use of Incendiary Racial Rhetoric ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Arguing that Ramos Ruling Requiring Unanimous State Juries Should Apply Retroactively

LDF Defends Black High School Student against Discriminatory Hair Policy in Preliminary Injunction Hearing

Civil Rights Groups Demand Action Following Baltimore Police Shooting of Ricky Walker, Jr.

LDF Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order Banning Undocumented Immigrants from the Census Count

Coalition of Social Justice Organizations Sends Recommendations for Reducing Interactions Between Baltimore Police and Persons Experiencing Behavioral Health ...

Alabama Extends No-Excuse Absentee Voting Through November Elections

LDF Mourns the Loss of Congressman John Lewis, Legendary and Beloved Civil Rights Icon

LDF Tribute to Congressman John Lewis, Legendary and Beloved Civil Rights Icon

LDF Files FOIA Requests Regarding the Activity of Federal Agents in Portland, Oregon

LDF Files FOIA Requests to Determine Legality of the Deployment of Federal Law Enforcement Personnel to “Control” D.C. ...

LDF Seeks Rehearing En Banc for Erroneous Fifth Circuit Panel Decision

Black Student Voters Granted Day in Court to Fight for Accessible Early Voting

Civil Rights Groups Commend Top Mortgage Lenders & Industry Leaders for Urging HUD to Reconsider Disparate Impact Rule

LDF Responds to Alabama’s Record-Breaking Number of Absentee Ballot Requests and Low Voter Turnout during Primary Election

LDF Statement on the Resumption of Federal Executions

LDF and Co-Counsel File Lawsuit on Behalf of Black Residents in West Philadelphia Who Endured Militaristic Police Violence ...

LDF Responds to Video of Allentown Police Officer Kneeling on a Person’s Neck

LDF Statement on the Importance of Ensuring Polling Place Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Plaintiffs Groups Dismayed by Court Decision that Declines Ordering an Investigation into the NYPD’s Racially Discriminatory Social Distancing ...

Civil Rights Coalition Files Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Detroit Water Shutoff Policy

Civil Rights Coalition Responds to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order by Requesting a Permanent Solution

Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit Shows Need for Reforms

Readout of Civil Rights Leaders Call with Facebook

LDF Sends Letter to Tennessee Governor Over Business Relief Program Funding Distribution Concerns

LDF Issues Statement Renewing Call for DOJ Investigation into Vehicle-Ramming Attacks on Protesters

LDF Statement on Recent Police-Involved Shooting in Baltimore

LDF Statement on NYPD Funding Cuts in the City’s Recently Approved Budget

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Major Voting Rights Win, Rules Against Black Residents of Terrebonne Parish

Sherrilyn Ifill on Safeguarding the 2020 Elections | 60 Minutes

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Face the Nation to Discuss Addressing Police Reform through Legislation

Facebook’s Latest Policy on Hate Speech and Voter Disinformation Misses the Mark

LDF Submits Letter in Support of Independent Racial Bias Audit of North Charleston Police Department

LDF Statement on Senate Judicial Confirmation Vote

LDF Statement on Today’s House Vote Advancing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020

In Huge Win for Alabamians, Eleventh Circuit Allows All State Probate Judges to Establish Curbside Voting for July ...

LDF Statement on Today’s Senate Vote Blocking the Advancement of the JUSTICE Act

Janai Nelson Joins MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and Katy Tur to Discuss the 2020 Primaries

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins TIME 100 Talks

LDF Sends Letter to Senate Leadership Opposing JUSTICE Act

Rep. Thompson, Civil Rights Groups Oppose Cory Wilson for the Fifth Circuit

Supreme Court Rules that the Trump Administration Cannot End the DACA Program

LDF Statement on FOIA Request Lawsuit Settlement with the U.S. Department of Education

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Discuss President Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Reform

LDF Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Reform

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Alabama Voters during COVID-19 Pandemic

Supreme Court Rules Title VII Protects Against LGBTQ Discrimination

LDF Statement on the Killing of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta Police

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Calls on Congress to Expand and Improve Voting Options Amid the COVID-19 ...

LDF Sends Letter to St. Mary Parish School District Regarding Racial Harassment of Black Students

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Calls on Congress to Strengthen Justice in Policing Act and Immediately Review ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Testifies in Support of the Justice in Policing Act at the US House of Representatives

Civil Rights Groups Demand Reform for Black and Latinx Students and Students with Disabilities Subject to Discriminatory School ...

LDF Statement on Voting Irregularities in Today’s Georgia Primary Election

LDF Statement on the New York State Legislature’s Vote to Repeal 50-a

Civil Rights Leaders’ Statement on Justice in Policing Act

Janai Nelson Joins MSNBC’s Katy Tur to Discuss Derek Chauvin’s First Day in Court

Sherrilyn Ifill on 60 Minutes Discussing How America Reached its Current Policing Crisis and What We Must Do ...

LDF Condemns the Increasing Wave of Violence Against Peaceful Protesters and Demands Accountability

North Carolina Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision on Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases

LDF Statement on New York City’s Curfew and Police Enforcement Actions

LDF Releases Policing Reform Demands to Federal Elected Officials, Governors, Mayors, and Police Chiefs

LDF Releases Demands to Governors, Mayors, and Police Chiefs for the Protection of Protesters

Civil Rights Coalition Sends Letters to U.S. Attorney General Asking for Investigations into Minneapolis and Louisville Police Departments

LDF, the Legal Aid Society Demand that Officers Stop Concealing Their Shield Numbers

Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Ask for Investigation into NYPD’s Social Distancing Enforcement Practices to Include Curfew Enforcement

Sherrilyn Ifill on the Legal Regime Needed to Achieve Police Reform

Watch: Civil Rights Leaders Call For National Day Of Mourning; Demand Federal Action To Reform Police

Diverse Coalition Sends Letter to Congressional Leaders Urging Swift Action in Response to Police Killings

Civil Rights Leaders Call for National Day of Mourning; Demand Federal Action to Reform Police

Janai Nelson Discusses the Third Degree Murder Charges Against Former Officer Chauvin on BBC World News

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Continued Unrest in Response to George Floyd’s Death on PBS NewsHour

LDF Statement on Arrest of Former Minneapolis Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd

Sherrilyn Ifill on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports Calling for Transparency Around George Floyd’s Murder Investigation

LDF Statement on the Arrest of CNN’s Omar Jimenez

Sherrilyn Ifill on MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about the Immediate Actions Needed to Achieve Justice for George Floyd

LDF Statement on President Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Social Media Platforms

Civil Rights Organizations Send Letter to Minneapolis Mayor and Police Chief Urging Communities are Kept Safe

Two High School Students and their Families, Represented by LDF and Akin Gump, File Lawsuit to Challenge Barbers ...

Janai Nelson on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports Discussing the Tragic Murder of George Floyd and the Call for ...

LDF Statements on the Police-Involved Killing of George Floyd and Ensuing Protests

Stop-and-Frisk Attorneys Ask Court to Conduct Investigation Into NYPD’s Social-Distancing Enforcement Practices

Federal Court Blocks South Carolina Witness Requirement That Would Put Voters at Risk During COVID-19 Pandemic

Federal Court Rules Florida Law That Undermined Voting Rights Restoration Is Unconstitutional

From Brown II to Today: A Discussion with Sherrilyn Ifill and Nikole Hannah-Jones

LDF Files Emergency Amicus Brief to Protect Texas Voters at Risk Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, and Industry Leaders Issue Statement Condemning Changes that Weaken the Community Reinvestment Act

Harvard Students and Alumni File Amicus Brief to Defend Diversity in Higher Education

Civil Rights, Law Enforcement Leaders Urge Police to Protect Public Health while Safeguarding Rights

Civil Rights Organizations Call on Justice Department to Investigate Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder

LDF Calls for a Thorough and Transparent Investigation of the Police Killing of Breonna Taylor

Civil Rights Groups File FOIA Seeking Information About North Charleston Police Department

Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations Urges Congress to Ensure Equal Educational Opportunity in Upcoming COVID-19 Stimulus Bill

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting Black Tenant Whose Landlord Knew of, but Failed to Address, Extreme Racial Harassment ...

UPDATED: Joint Statement of Education and Civil Rights Organizations Concerning Equitable Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic School Closures ...

Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson Discusses the Flawed Execution of Justice for Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder on Good Morning America

Civil Rights Groups and Black Clergy Leaders Call on Congress to Ensure that Proper Funding is Provided for ...

LDF Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Louisiana Voting Requirements That Put Voters at Risk Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF Calls on Arkansas Governor to Implement Statewide Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures

Over 100 Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress to Support Robust Funding for the United States Postal Service

Coalition of Civil Rights Leaders Condemn Horrific Attack on Ahmaud Arbery

Federal Trial Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

LDF Urges Alabama State Leaders to Ensure the Distribution of Crucial School Meals

Civil Rights Organizations Call for Defeat of Cory Wilson’s Nomination to Fifth Circuit

LDF Condemns the NYPD’s Disparate Social Distancing Enforcement Following Multiple Arrests of Black Residents This Weekend

National Rights Groups Call for Pause in Judicial Confirmations Process

Civil Rights Groups Sue Government for Critical Information on Trump’s Muslim and African Ban

LDF, SPLC, and ADAP File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s Lack of Safe and Accessible Voting During COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF Files Lawsuit Challenging the President’s Law Enforcement Commission, Arguing That It Fails to Comply with Federal Advisory ...

More than 100 Organizations Urge Congress against Shielding Businesses from Liability during COVID-19 Pandemic, Emphasize Protections for Essential ...

LDF Submits Written Comments on Responsibilities of President’s Commission on Law Enforcement

Civil Rights and Education Organizations Release Joint Statement Concerning Equitable Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic School Closures and ...

LDF BLOG: It’s Time for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19

Statement by National Black Faith and Civil Rights Leaders Encouraging Communities to Continue to “Stay at Home” in ...

LDF and ACLU File Federal Lawsuit Challenging South Carolina Requirements That Put Voters at Risk During COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 in Arkansas State Prisons

U.S. Supreme Court Rules That State Juries Must Require Unanimous Verdicts for Conviction

Over 100 Organizations Write to Congress Outlining Health and Economic Security Priorities Related to COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF Mourns the Loss of Robert Garcia, Former LDF Staff Attorney and Lifelong Civil Rights Advocate

Letters to Governors Urging Moratoriums on Utility Shut-Offs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Louisiana’s Governor Requires Schools to Provide Meals and Instruction for the State’s Children in Line with LDF’s Recommendations

Coalition of Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress to Provide Affordable Broadband amid COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF is Urging Moratoriums During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Religious, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Organizations Call On North Charleston Mayor and Councilmembers to Commission Independent, Comprehensive ...

Civil Rights Organizations Demand Southern Officials Protect the Health and Safety of Incarcerated People from COVID-19 Pandemic

Sherrilyn Ifill on MSNBC Discussing the Wisconsin Primary and the Integrity of the 2020 Election

LDF Urges Louisiana Governor to Ensure Provision of Essential School Meals and Distance Learning During School Closures

LDF Sends Letter to National Governors Association Requesting a Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions and Water and Utility Shut ...

LDF Files En Banc Petition in Case Challenging Qualified Immunity

LDF Mourns the Passing of Reverend Doctor Joseph Lowery, The “Dean” of the Civil Rights Movement

Diverse Coalition of Student and Community Organizations Permitted to Intervene in Suit to Defend Expanded Access for Black ...

LDF Mourns Former Client Reverend Darius L. Swann

LDF Files Complaint against Arkansas Governor and Secretary of State over Ballot Access

LDF Joins OCA-Asian Pacific Americans and Other Organizations in Calling on the Justice Department to Address Increasing Racist ...

LDF Sends Letter to Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston Regarding Ballot Access amid COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Sends Letter to US Conference of Mayors Calling for Halting of Utility Shutoffs and Evictions ...

Supreme Court Increases Burden for Claims of Race Discrimination Under Crucial Civil Rights Statute

A Message from LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill on Our Work Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

LDF, SPLC, Alabama Civil Rights and Disability Rights Groups Urge Alabama Secretary of State to Ensure Ballot Access ...

LDF Comment Letter on Baltimore Aerial Surveillance Pilot Program

LDF Calls on State and Local Governments to Address the Many Challenges Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Voting Rights Organizations Send Letter to Texas Secretary of State about Expanding Vote-by-Mail Eligibility in Response to COVID-19

LDF Submits Comments on the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Proposed Rule

LDF Calls on the U.S. Senate to Pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Civil Rights Organizations Urge Congress and State Election Officials to Safeguard the 2020 Election from COVID-19 Threat

LDF Calls on Elected Officials to Condemn Discrimination Linked to COVID-19

Voting Rights Groups: Elections Must Proceed While States Protect Public Health

LDF Calls for Changes to Maryland’s Blueprint Bill to Address Educational Inequities

LDF and Leadership Conference Request DOJ’s Plans to Address Russian Government’s Efforts to Manipulate the 2020 Election

LDF Writes Letter to Harris County Clerk Over Concerns Surrounding Long Voting Lines; Demands Issue is Addressed before ...

LDF’s Director of State Advocacy Testifies Before the Maryland House of Delegates on the Need to Amend HB ...

LDF Submits Written Testimony in Support of the New York Voting Rights Act

LDF’s Janai Nelson in Essence Op-Ed: The Lodestar Is Always Justice

LDF Calls on The U.S. Senate to Immediately Take Up The Emmett Till Antilynching Act

Ohio Supreme Court Reverses Glen E. Bates’ Conviction and Death Sentence; Agrees that Racially-Biased Jury Deprived Black Defendant ...

LDF and Co-Counsel File Lawsuit Challenging Pennsylvania’s Prison-Based Gerrymandering Scheme

Civil Rights Groups Seek Critical Information on Trump’s Muslim and African Ban

LDF Issues Letter Requesting Financial Technology Firm Upstart Cooperate with Requests for Information by U.S. Senate Regarding Potential ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief Supporting the Right of Juvenile Life Without Parole Offenders to Have a Meaningful Opportunity ...

Federal Appeals Court Blocks Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

LDF Supports Taxi and Limousine Commission’s Campaign to End Taxi and Ridesharing Discrimination

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: The Justice Emergency in America

LDF Comments on Baltimore Police Department’s Community Policing Plan

LDF Statement on the Outcome of Today’s Senate Judicial Vote to confirm Andrew Brasher to the United States ...

LDF Submits Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Reaffirm Constitutional Protections for Citizens Shot by Police Officers

LDF Statement on Today’s Vote to Acquit the President of the United States of Impeachment Charges

LDF Files Public Records Request on Behalf of De’Andre Arnold and Family

Sherrilyn Ifill in Slate Op-Ed: How Americans Can Still Protect the 2020 Election After Trump’s Acquittal

LDF Mourns the Passing of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones

LDF Responds to the Administration’s Expanded Muslim Ban Announcement

LDF Condemns Officer-Involved Shooting of William Green – And Calls for a Thorough Examination of Officer and Departmental ...

Lawsuit Threatening Sheff Progress is Dismissed; Promise of Integrated Hartford School System Strengthens

LDF Discussions: Haiti Temporary Protected Status with Professor Gemma Solimene

Sherrilyn Ifill on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Discussing Impeachment Hearings & Election Integrity

The DOJ Announces Details of the President’s Law Enforcement Commission, Reaffirming the Civil Rights Concerns Around Its Establishment

Statement on Today’s Latest Victory in the Bradford Case Championing State Constitutional Right to Education

Reflecting on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports

LDF Urges Senate Judiciary Committee to Oppose Andrew Brasher for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Agreement Reached in Connecticut School Desegregation Case

HUD’s Newly Proposed Fair Housing Rule Eliminates Municipal Requirements for Addressing Racial Disparities in Housing Access and Opportunity

Advocacy Organizations Call on Senate to Halt Judicial Confirmations Process

Black Voters Defend Voting Rights Win in Federal Appellate Court

Sherrilyn Ifill in CNN Op-Ed: We Must Hold Police Departments Accountable Even if Trump Administration Fails to Do ...

LDF and CHHIRJ File Amicus Brief Calling for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Determine Police Seizure from the ...

LDF Condemns the EEOC’s Recent Vote Rescinding Its Position on Mandatory Arbitration

LDF’s Testimony in Favor of the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act

LDF Files Lawsuit Against the City of Cleveland to Address Discriminatory Water Liens and Shutoffs

LDF’s Algernon Austin in USA Today Op-Ed: My phone’s facial recognition technology doesn’t see me, a black man. ...

LDF Issues Joint Statement Following Proposed Rulemaking for Changes to the Community Reinvestment Act

LDF Calls on the Trump Administration to Rescind the New Work Requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

LDF Applauds the House’s Passage of H.R.4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA)

LDF Mourns the Loss of Leroy D. Clark, Former LDF Counsel and Venerated Law Professor

Federal Court Approves Settlement with Target over Discriminatory Criminal Background Screening Policy

LDF Responds to Attorney General William Barr’s Disturbing Statements on Policing

LDF Sends Letter Opposing Nomination of Sarah Pitlyk to the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of ...

LDF Sends Letter Opposing the Judicial Nomination of Lawrence VanDyke, Highlighting his Unqualified ABA Rating

LDF Submits Comment Letter to Department of Education on Proposed Questions for 2019-2020 Civil Rights Data Collection

LDF and MacArthur Justice Center File Suit Challenging Mississippi District Attorney Doug Evans’ Rampant Discrimination Against Black Jurors

LDF Comments on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Baltimore School Police MOU Assessment Report

LDF Statement on the Outcome of Today’s Senate Judicial Vote

LDF Files Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Brief to Defend Black Louisiana Voters

LDF Sends Letter to Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission Supporting Complaint Against Judge S. Kastrenakes

LDF Mourns the Loss of John W. Walker, Legendary Arkansas Civil Rights Attorney and LDF Board Member

LDF Policy Counsel Katurah Topps Testifies Before the New York State Senate on the Need to Repeal CRL-50a

LDF Statement on the Passing of Former Representative John Conyers

Federal Court Rules the Right to Vote in Florida Cannot Be Denied on Account of Wealth 

LDF’s Janai Nelson in Slate Op-Ed: The Last 31 Presidential Debates Have Ignored Voting Rights

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill and Rep. Barbara Lee Discuss Rep. Elijah Cummings’s Legacy on All In with Chris Hayes

LDF Attorneys to Testify Before Congress in Support of Voting Rights Protections

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington Post Op-Ed: Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know his Civil rights History

LDF Statement on the Passing of The Honorable Representative Elijah Cummings

LDF Requests Congressional Oversight on Changes to Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)

Legal Team Representing Parents and Students in Baltimore Urge Kirwan Commission to Address Systemic Underfunding

LDF Statement on the Police Killing of Atatiana Jefferson

Black Voters Win Right to Elect Candidates of Their Choice as Court Approves Settlement in Pleasant Grove Voting ...

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Inducts LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill

LDF Receives Transformational Grant

LDF Requests Independent Investigation into Shooting Death of Joshua Brown

LDF Supports Judicial Review; Identifies Racial Animus in DACA Rescission

Federal Court Upholds Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policies

LDF Vigorously Defends Civil Rights Law of 1866 Against Comcast Attack

LDF Urges Senate Judiciary Committee to Oppose Steven Menashi for Second Circuit Court of Appeals Seat

Statement on Impeachment Inquiry From LDF President and Director-Counsel, Sherrilyn Ifill

LDF Urges the Passage of the FUTURE Act

Groups Sue to Block New Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

LDF Remembers Terence Crutcher on the Third Anniversary of His Death

LDF Condemns Plan to Refuse Temporary Protected Status to Displaced Bahamians

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Gift $2M to Fund Social Justice Initiatives with the NAACP LDF and the ...

LDF to Argue Death Penalty Cases Before North Carolina Supreme Court

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses White Supremacy and Anti-Terrorism Laws on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes

LDF Statement on Justice Department Email Containing White Supremacist and Anti-Semitic Content

LDF on the Efficacy and Principle of Facebook Bias Report

LDF Statement on Police Commissioner’s Decision to Fire Pantaleo

LDF to Fight Against Proposed HUD Rule Weakening Disparate Impact

LDF’s Katurah Topps on Ferguson Five Years Later

LDF’s Janell Byrd-Chichester and Dr. Algernon Austin on Three Policies that Address Rural vs. Urban Divide in America

LDF Joins Coalition Urging Tech Companies to Enact Meaningful Changes

LDF’s Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele in Blavity Op-Ed: It’s Time to Get Out The People (Not Just The Vote)

Civil Rights and Gun Reform Groups Host Rally to Denounce Hate and Demand Action

The Passing of Renowned Author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison

Statement by LDF on the Tragic Events in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH

Groups File Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Block SB7066

Reported NYPD Use of Powerful Surveillance Technology

LDF Supports Recommendation to Fire Daniel Pantaleo

HUD Weakening Vital Tool to Combat Housing Discrimination

LDF Sends Letter to Senators Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer; Urges Senate to End Use of Consent Packages ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Responds to President’s Comments About Baltimore

LDF Applauds Federal Court Remedy Ensuring Voting Rights in Louisiana

LDF Maintains Vigorous Opposition To Federal Death Penalty

LDF Statement on the Department of Justice Declining to Prosecute NYPD Police Officer for Unlawful Choking Death of ...

A Tribute to Earl Cunningham, LDF Information and Office Services Clerk from 1968 to 2015

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill in Slate Op-Ed: The Same Myths That Thwarted Busing Are Keeping School Segregation Alive

Legal Defense Fund Joins Effort to Extend Title VII Protections to LGBTQ Individuals

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s AM Joy to Discuss SCOTUS’ Gerrymandering and Census Decisions

Groups Sue to Block New Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration

Supreme Court Rules Against Inclusion of Undemocratic Citizen Question in the 2020 Census

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Partisan Gerrymandering Claims Nonjusticiable

LDF Urges BPD Investigation; Awaits Review by Consent Decree Monitoring Team in Cherry Hill Arrests

New Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Macy’s, Inc. over Criminal History Screening Policy

LDF Testifies Before Congress on Voter Suppression Crisis Post Shelby

U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Curtis Flowers’ Conviction and Institutes Protections Against Racial Bias in Jury Selection

LDF Responds to Disturbing Police Incident Involving Black Family in Phoenix

LDF Sends Letter to Tulsa City Council Ahead of Public Listening Session on Racial Disparities in Police Arrests

LDF Supports Commission on Reparations for African Americans

LDF Opposes Confirmation of Judicial Nominee Matthew Kacsmaryk

LDF Submits Amicus Brief in Support of Overturning Case that Allows Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts

LDF and Center for Constitutional Rights Send Letter to New York Legislators Urging Repeal of CRL 50-a, Allowing ...

LDF Sends Letter Urging Jeff Davis County to Reopen Precinct 1 Polling Place

LDF Fellow Sparky Abraham Joins Ron Regan on News Five Cleveland to Discuss Disproportionate Water Liens in Cleveland

LDF Files Lawsuit to Ensure Black Voters Have Voice in Electing Judges to Highest State Courts in Arkansas

Janai Nelson Testifies Before House Homeland Security Committee on Discriminatory TSA Policies

Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Opinion in Support of Title VII Enforcement

LDF Welcomes Janell Byrd-Chichester as Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute

New Documents Confirm Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Reasoning for Adding Citizenship Question to 2020 Census

New Hampshire Repeals the Death Penalty

Federal Judge Approves Public Housing Training for NYPD Officers

LDF Statement on HUD’s Proposed Rule Change Allowing Homeless Shelters to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Americans

LDF Remembers Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte

LDF Releases Overview of Water/Color Report

LDF Statement on Upcoming Senate Vote on Judicial Nominee Daniel Collins

LDF Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Case on Standards for Conducting Searches and Seizures

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board with Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AM Joy

Sherrilyn Ifill on The Rachel Maddow Show Discusses the Critical Nature of Brown v. Board

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill in Bloomberg Law Op-Ed: Defending Brown and the Rule of Law

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Ari Melber to Discuss the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the 65th Anniversary of Brown v. Board with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC

LDF Statement on Upcoming Senate Votes on Judicial and Executive Nominees Wendy Vitter and Jeffrey Rosen

LDF Remembers Judge Damon J. Keith

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington Post Op-Ed: If Judicial Nominees Don’t Support ‘Brown v. Board,’ They Don’t Support ...

LDF Urges the New York State Assembly to Repeal the Hecht-Calandra Act and Implement a New Specialized High ...

LDF Statement on Senate Judiciary Committee Vote to Advance Nomination of Jeffrey Rosen

LDF Sends Letter Opposing Michael Park’s Nomination for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Support of Requiring Courts to Assess Defendants’ Ability to Pay Court Costs

LDF Offers Support for the Equality Act

Diverse Coalition of Students and Community Organizations Ask to Intervene in Suit to Defend Expanded Access to Elite ...

LDF Submits Amicus Brief in Support of Challenge to President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration

LDF’s Lisa Cylar Barrett Comments on Confirmed Anti-Civil Rights Judicial Nominee J. Campbell Barker in Texas Lawyer Write-Up

LDF Attorney Cara McClellan joins HLN to Discuss Binghamton School Illegal Strip Search

LDF’s Raymond Audain: Not Yet Forgiven for Being Black: Haiti’s TPS, LDF, and the Protean Struggle for Racial ...

LDF Supports the New York City Council’s Proposed Measures to Improve Specialized High School Diversity

LDF Urges Senate to Oppose Confirmation of Judicial Nominees Andrew Brasher and J. Campbell Barker

LDF’s Lisa Cylar Barrett in Bloomberg Law Op-Ed: How Much Is Your Life Worth to a Court?

Baltimore City Council Passes Resolution Supporting Suit Against Maryland State Board of Education Over Constitutionally-Inadequate Funding for Baltimore ...

Lawsuit Filed Against School District That Illegally Strip Searched 12-Year-Old Black and Latina Students

LDF Statement on the Passing of Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins “All In with Chris” to Discuss the President’s Remarks about Charlottesville and White Supremacy

LDF Strengthens Policy Footprint in Washington, D.C. and States; Expands Policing Reform Campaign Team

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Death Penalty Case Challenging Anti-Gay Bias in the Jury Box

LDF Statement on President Trump Targeting and Endangering Rep. Ilhan Omar

LDF’s Estherjoy Mungai in Charleston Chronicle Op-Ed: Charleston and North Charleston’s Approach to Policing Reform

LDF Statement on Deputy Attorney General Nominee Jeffrey Rosen Refusing to Endorse Supreme Court’s Unanimous Decision in Brown ...

LDF Joins Cross-Ideological Coalition in Submitting an Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Qualified Immunity

LDF Statement on Senate Judiciary Committee Vote Advancing Judicial Nominee Kenneth Lee

LDF Sends Letter to Florida House of Representatives’ State Affairs Committee Opposing House Bill 7089 and its Interpretation ...

Leaders Urge Senate to Abandon Rules Change

LDF Submits U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Title VII Enforcement

LDF’s Lawsuit Over Pleasant Grove, Alabama’s Voting Rights Act Violations to Move Forward

LDF Condemns Unilateral Effort to Shorten Consideration of Judicial and Executive Nominees

LDF’s Daniel Harawa in Slate Op-Ed: The Supreme Court Must Rule That Juries Can’t Sentence a Man to ...

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Challenge to Citizenship Status Question on the 2020 Census

Multi-Racial Students and Community Organizations Ask to Join Suit to Defend Expanded Access to Elite New York City ...

LDF Statement on Facebook Banning White Nationalism and White Separatism

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Review of Capital Case Involving Evidence of Egregious Anti-Gay Bias

Civil Rights Groups Send Letter to Prince George’s County Public Schools Demanding Changes to Discipline Policies and Practices

U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Vulnerable to Predatory Debt Collectors

LDF Statement on Facebook Settling Several Lawsuits Alleging Discriminatory Ad Practices

LDF Statement on Continued Lack of Diversity in New York Specialized High School Admissions

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Declining to Review Keith Tharpe’s Racially-Biased Death Sentence

LDF’s Policy Department Strengthens Leadership Position in Washington

LDF Senior Counsel Michaele Turnage Young Discusses College Admissions Scandal on MSNBC

LDF’s Chris Kemmitt in Jurist Op-Ed: The Supreme Court Must Stand for Equality in Upcoming Jury-Selection Case

LDF Statement on Preliminary Court Ruling in Hartford, Connecticut Education Equity Case

LDF Statement on California’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty

LDF Condemns Confirmation of Neomi Rao to Lifetime Seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

LDF Sends Letter to Senate Leaders Opposing Neomi Rao’s Nomination for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

Maryland District Court to Hear Case Against Department of Homeland Security in Response to Removal of Temporary Protective ...

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Challenges to North Carolina and Maryland’s Partisan Gerrymandering Schemes

Concerned Parents, Civil Rights Groups Sue State of Maryland Over Constitutionally-Inadequate Funding for Children in Baltimore Schools

LDF Condemns Senate Votes on Chad Readler and Eric Murphy

LDF Opposes Bills Authorizing Johns Hopkins University to Create a Private Police Force

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Eleventh Circuit Defending Transgender Youth Rights

LDF Condemns Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Judicial Nominee Neomi Rao

LDF Sends Letter Expressing Concern with Lack of Diversity on Tennessee’s Judicial Redistricting Task Force, and Recommending Action

LDF Statement on Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners Vote to Support Arming School Police During School Day

LDF Submits Written Testimony Urging the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to Oppose Arming School Police During ...

LDF Strongly Supports the Voting Rights Advancement Act

LDF Statement on Nominee to Lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency

LDF Submits Comment on U.S. Department of Education ESEA Guidance

LDF Files Brief Calling for End of the Death Penalty in Pennsylvania

LDF Responds to Pleasant Grove, Alabama in Voting Rights Act Violations Case

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Excessive Fines and Fees

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, Emory Law School, and Spelman College Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment

LDF Delivers Oral Argument Before Ohio Supreme Court in Death Penalty Case

LDF’s Sam Spital in National Law Journal Op-Ed: The US Supreme Court Should Stop the Execution of a ...

LDF Files Brief Calling for Rayford Burke to Have the Chance to Challenge Racial Bias in His Death ...

LDF Statement on the President’s National Emergency Declaration

LDF Statement on Confirmation of William Barr to Serve as Attorney General of the United States

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Delivers Arguments at Final Hearing in Case to Determine Future of Race-Conscious Admissions at ...

LDF Sends Letters Over Concerns with Discriminatory Hair Policies Stemming from Incident Involving New Jersey High School Wrestler

LDF Offers Support for Maryland House Bill to Improve Transparency Around Misconduct by Public Employees

Binghamton Parents Demand Justice for Daughters Illegally Strip Searched

LDF Sends Letter to Alabama County Commission Expressing At-Large Voting Concerns

LDF Condemns Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Attorney General Nominee William Barr and Dozens of Judicial Nominees

LDF Statement on CFPB Attempt to Repeal Critical Elements of Payday Lending Rule

LDF Renews Call for Federal Investigation of Officer-Involved Shooting of E.J. Bradford, Jr.

LDF Urges the Senate to Oppose Attorney General Nominee William Barr

LDF Demands Investigation into Conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York

LDF Calls for Resignation of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Over Racist Medical School Yearbook Image

LDF Statement on the Approval of the Policing Reform Consent Decree in Chicago

LDF Supports Bill to Permanently Protect Baltimore Communities from Losing Homes Due to Water Debt

Black Student Voters Seek to Keep Their Voting Rights Lawsuit Alive

LDF Testifies on Major Election Reform and Voting Rights Bill Before Congress

LDF Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Sheff v. O’Neill alongside the Sheff Movement Coalition

LDF Provides Feedback on Independent Monitor’s Draft Second-Year Monitoring Plan for Police Reform Agreement in Baltimore

LDF Statement on Baltimore School Board Vote Banning School Police from Carrying Guns During School Hours

LDF Sends Letter to Madison County Officials Over Voting Rights Concerns

Making Real the Promises of Our Democracy: LDF’s Janai Nelson Delivers MLK Day Speech in Bloomington, Indiana

Concerned Parents and Civil Rights Organizations Call on the State of Maryland to Provide More Education Funding for ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports

LDF Responds to Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke’s Sentencing and the Acquittal of Officers Charged in ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Speaks with Chris Hayes about Barr’s Confirmation Hearings on MSNBC’s All In with Chris

LDF Statement on Court Decision Rejecting Citizenship Status Question for 2020 Census

LDF Statement on William Barr Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

LDF Statement on Inflammatory Language from US Court of Appeals Nominee Neomi Rao

LDF Sends Letter to Huntsville Alabama City Leaders Over Fair Representation for Black Voters on School Board

Sherrilyn Ifill and Academy-Award Winning Writer-Director Barry Jenkins Explore Beale Street Narratives

LDF Encourages New York Legislature to Make Voting Rights a Priority in 2019

LDF Joins Civil Rights Organizations on Press Call Expressing Doubts About AG Nominee William Barr

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Post-Trial Brief in Lawsuit to Determine Future of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard

LDF Makes Public Records Request in Response to Hair Discrimination Case Involving Buena Regional High School Wrestler

LDF Statement on Joel Fitzgerald’s Withdrawal from Baltimore Police Commissioner Job

LDF Statement on H.R. 1 – A Comprehensive Reform Package

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Condemning the Discriminatory Jury Selection Practices in Mississippi

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Urging Consideration of Racially-Biased Death Sentence

LDF Statement on Senate Passage of First Step Act

Sherrilyn Ifill Op-Ed in The Washington Post: Racism is a National Security Issue

LDF Opposes Trump Administration’s Recommendation to Rescind School Discipline Guidance, Challenges Federal Commission on School Safety Report

Congress must investigate Russian attempts to manipulate Black voters

Sherrilyn Ifill talks to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes about Russian targeting of Black voters

Civil Rights Groups Outraged at Death of Seven-Year Old Child in Border Patrol Custody; Demand Congressional Hearings, Investigation

LDF Files Complaint Against Pleasant Grove, Alabama Over Voting Rights Act Violations

LDF joins Outten & Golden LLP in suit against NTT Data’s discriminatory hiring policies

EPA Slams Door to Justice on Historic Black Community, Closes Civil Rights Complaint Against Alabama Environmental Agency

Senate must carefully evaluate William Barr’s record on civil rights, executive power

LDF Requests Federal Investigation of Officer-Involved Shooting of EJ Bradford, Jr.

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill and Janai Nelson Featured in HuffPost: 2 Black Women Could Define American Democracy For The ...

Sherrilyn Ifill statement on Senate failure to confirm Thomas Farr

LDF, ACLU, ACLU of Florida File Complaint Against Discriminatory Hair Policies in Florida Schools

NAACP Legal Defense Fund writes McConnell, Schumer, to express concern over potential contraction of Senate Judiciary Committee

LDF Statement on Shooting Death of E.J. Bradford

LDF asks Supreme Court to rule on police officers’ obligations to administer aid

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Joy Reid and Stacey Abrams on The AMJoy Show

LDF Statement on New Baltimore Police Commissioner Joel Fitzgerald

LDF Responds to Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Comments on Voting

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on First Step Act

LDF Statement on Nomination of Thomas Farr to Federal Bench

Sherrilyn Ifill’s Washington Post Op-Ed: “When Trump attacks one black woman, we all feel it”

Sherrilyn Ifill in USA Today: It’s Time to Move on a Voting Rights Bill

Civil Rights Groups Demand Every Georgia Ballot Be Counted

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and other civil rights leaders oppose national speaking engagement for officer who killed unarmed ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Complaint on Behalf of Alabama Students Denied Voting Rights in Tuesday’s Election

LDF Statement on Dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

LDF Statement on Historic Election Results, Need for Restored Voting Rights Act

LDF Sends Letter Over Georgia Polling Site Confusion in Grady County

Janai Nelson Joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC to Discuss Midterm Elections and Voter Suppression

LDF Sends Letter to Secretary Merrill Over Widespread Confusion Regarding Inactive Voters and the Photo ID Law in ...

Civil Rights Groups Show Solidarity with Victims of Hate in National Full-Page Ads

Sherrilyn Ifill speaks to Joy Reid on MSNBC’s AMJoy to discuss voter suppression and the 2018 Midterms

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Delivers Closing Statements in Trial to Determine Future of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard

LDF Sends Letter Over Voter Registration Concerns at Alabama A&M and Oakwood University

Justice Equality Democracy: LDF 32nd Annual National Equal Justice Awards Dinner

LDF Sends Letter Asking For Removal of Election Worker Who Refused to Assist Voters

LDF’s Sam Spital in Rewire Op-Ed: Trump Wants to Change Who Is a Citizen. The Constitution Doesn’t Let ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Andrea Mitchell to Discuss Voter Suppression in Georgia and North Dakota

LDF’s Janai Nelson in Bustle Op-Ed: People Are Trying To Scare You Away From Voting — Don’t Fall ...

In letter, LDF and Partners Demand That Attorney General Sessions Develop Comprehensive Response to Rise in Hate Crimes

LDF Sends Letter to Secretary Rolando Pablos Over Reported Problems with Electronic Voting Machines in Texas

LDF Honors the Life of Board Member John D. Maguire

Harvard Students and Alumni Testify in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity

LDF Statement on Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting

Waller County Modestly Expands Early Voting in Prairie View, LDF’s Suit Still Pending

LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson discusses Georgia’s Voter Suppression on All in with Chris Hayes

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Suit Against Waller County, Texas for Restricting Early Voting Rights of Black Students

LDF Responds to Report of Trump Administration Considering Drastic Efforts to Undermine Legal Status of Transgender People

LDF Responds to President Trump’s Statement About Voting

LDF Responds to Reports of Finalist in Search for New Baltimore Police Commissioner

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Announces New Hires, Promotions, and Fellows

LDF Sends Letter to Jefferson County Board of Commissioners about Voter Intimidation in Georgia

LDF Argues Against Attempt to Reverse Integrated Education in Hartford

Janai Nelson Joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to Discuss Voter Supression

LDF Responds to Facebook’s New Policy on False Voter Information Ahead of Election

LDF’s Janai Nelson in CNN Op-Ed: Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate’s Huge Conflict of Interest

LDF and American Oversight File Lawsuit for DOJ Records of Census Citizenship Question

NAACP Legal Defense Fund to Deliver Opening Statements in Trial to Determine Future of Race-Conscious Admissions at Harvard

Janai Nelson speaks on MSNBC about Kemp and Georgia’s Purged Voter Rolls

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Written Testimony In Opposition of Efforts to Allow School Police to Carry Firearms ...

LDF Sends Letter to Georgia Secretary of State, Urging Recusal From Voter Registration Process During Gubernatorial Campaign

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Comments on Proposed Chicago Consent Decree

LDF’s Todd Cox Writes on the Future of the Judiciary in The Hill

LDF Joins Social Justice Groups in Calling for CFPB Fair Lending Chief to Resign after Failure to Apologize ...

LDF’s Leah Aden Pens Op-Ed on Supreme Court for Rewire

LDF Statement on Senate Vote to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the Supreme Court

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill discusses Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote on MSNBC’s All in with Chris Hayes

LDF Releases Statement in Response to the Conviction of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke

LDF Joins Carlyle Parish LLC and Bradley Law Firm in asking Supreme Court to hear case about racial ...

LDF Releases Statement on Completed FBI Investigation of Sexual Assault Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Hear Juvenile Life Sentencing Case

LDF Sends Letter to Florida Department of Education to Express Concern Over Discriminatory Hair Policies

LDF Submits Comment Letter in Response to Revised Baltimore Police Department policies

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Kavanaugh & Ford Testimonies on MSNBC

LDF Releases Statement on Latest Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh

LDF’s Janai Nelson Joins Hardball with Chris Matthews to Discuss Judge Kavanaugh’s Upcoming Confirmation Vote

John Legend Issues a Call to Action in Ad Launched by 14 Leading Social Justice Organizations in Opposition ...

Testimony of Kristen Johnson LDF/Fried Frank Fellow Before the New York City Council Committee on For-Hire Vehicles

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill joins Chris Hayes on All in with Chris to discuss the recent sexual assault allegations ...

In Supreme Court Amicus Brief, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Argues for Stronger Protections Against Predatory Foreclosure Practices

In Light of Recent Sexual Assault Allegations Against Kavanaugh, LDF Renews Call for Senate Judiciary to Postpone Confirmation ...

Civil and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Defending EEOC Guidance on Use of Criminal Background Checks in ...

LDF Sends Joint Letter to Texas Secretary of State Regarding Voter Eligibility Challenges & Warning Against Voter Suppression

LDF Urges Supreme Court to Apply Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause to the States

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens CNN Op-Ed: Judge Kavanaugh’s Hearing Must Be Delayed

LDF Mourns the Loss of Longtime Board Member Jay Topkis

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Confirmation Hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on The Tom Joyner Morning Show

LDF’s Sherillyn Ifill Joins the AMJoy Show with Joy Reid to Discuss Judge Kavanaugh’s Upcoming Confirmation

Racial Justice Organizations Oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation to U.S. Supreme Court

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Releases Detailed Report on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Record

LDF Statement on Department of Justice Involvement in Harvard Lawsuit

LDF Sends Joint Letter to Texas Commission on Proposed Closings of Department of Public Safety Offices

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Senate to Slow Pace of Judicial Nominations and Carefully Vet Nominees

LDF Statement in Response to the Conviction of Officer Roy Oliver for the Murder of Jordan Edwards

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Baltimore Police Department to Strengthen Its Proposed Use of Force Training Plan

Civil Rights Leaders Call for Full Examination of Kavanaugh’s Record and Request Meeting with Senate Leadership

LDF and ACLU of Georgia Send Joint Letter to Georgia Election Officials Urging Against Discriminatory Polling Place Changes

LDF’s Jin Hee Lee Pens Time Magazine Op-Ed: Lawsuit Seeks to Erase Harvard Applicants’ Racial Identity

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Comments on Chicago Police Consent Decree

21 Harvard Student and Alumni Organizations Reject Attempt to Censor Their Voices

21 Harvard Student and Alumni Organizations Reject Attempt to Censor Their Voices

Civil Rights Leaders Call for Full Examination of Kavanaugh’s Record and Request Meeting with Senate Leadership

LDF Statement on Grand Jury Indictment of Former Baltimore Police Officer Arthur Williams

A Tribute to LDF Alum Sheila Thomas

Janai Nelson Joins David Gura on MSNBC to Discuss the Anniversary of #Charlottesville and Unite the Right Rallies

LDF Statement on Scheduling Judge Kavanaugh’s Hearing Without Releasing His Full Record

LDF Statement on One Year Anniversary of White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville

Court Orders NYPD to Film All Citizen Encounters with Body Cameras

LDF Statement on One Year Anniversary of White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville

LDF’s Marne Lenox Pens New York Daily News Op-Ed: NYPD Hasn’t Come Clean on its Gang Database

LDF Statement on Passage of New York City Council Bill Increasing Penalty for Taxi Drivers Who Refuse Service ...

LDF Statement on Cincinnati Police Tasing an 11-Year-Old Girl

LDF Joins Carlyle Parish LLC and Bradley Law Firm in asking Supreme Court to hear case about racial ...

LDF Shares Comments Opposing Census Bureau’s Decision to Add a Citizenship Status

Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Failure to Disclose Information on Gang Policing Policies

25 Harvard Student and Alumni Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity

LDF Continues to Challenge Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

National Civil Rights Leaders Issue Letter to San Bernardino County District Attorney Demanding Termination of Deputy District Attorney ...

LDF Files Records Request for Information on Man’s Attack of Black Middle School Student in Berkeley, California

Civil Rights Leaders Discuss #WhatsAtStake for Voting Rights in SCOTUS Fight

Six Civil Rights Leaders Unite to Raise Concerns over Kavanaugh’s Nomination to Supreme Court

Court Orders NYPD to Electronically Record All Citizen Encounters

LDF Statement on Withdrawal of Ryan Bounds’ Nomination for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

What’s at Stake: Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination

LDF Statement on Senate Confirmation of Circuit Court Nominee Andrew Oldham

Civil Rights Attorneys Push Back on NYPD Objections to Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

LDF Files Amicus Brief Urging North Carolina Supreme Court to Address Race Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases

LDF’s Janai Nelson Discusses Kavanaugh’s #SCOTUS Nomination on MSNBC’s AM Joy with Joy Reid

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses SCOTUS Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show

LDF’s Todd A. Cox examines Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination on HillTV

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill speaks about Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on MSNBC’s All In with Chris ...

LDF Statement on Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

LDF Provides Feedback on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Fair and Impartial Policing Policy

Six Civil Rights Leaders Unite to Raise Concerns over Kavanaugh’s Nomination to Supreme Court

LDF and ACLU Settle Tax Foreclosure Case, Enabling Low-Income Detroiters in Foreclosure to Keep Their Homes

LDF Condemns Trump Administration’s Rescission of Guidance Promoting Diversity in Education

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Ninth Circuit Tracing Bigoted Roots of Transgender Military Ban

Racial Justice Leaders Publish Comprehensive Report Advising Starbucks on Ideas for Overcoming Racial Bias and Advancing Equity

LDF’s Janai Nelson Discusses Issues at Stake Given the Supreme Court Vacancy on MSNBC Live with David Gura

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s AM Joy to Discuss SCOTUS Nominees and Justice Kennedy’s Retirement

LDF Statement on U.S. Department of Education’s Decision to Delay Rule Addressing Racial Inequities in Special Education

New LDF Report Reveals Black Girls Are Pushed out of Baltimore Classrooms and into the Criminal Justice System

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Justice Kennedy’s Retirement on All In with Chris Hayes

LDF Statement on Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement

LDF’s Janai Nelson Discusses Supreme Court Vacancy on WNYC with Jami Floyd

Civil Rights Groups Demand Supreme Court Vote Delay

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban

Five Years After Shameful Voting Rights Act Decision, U.S. Supreme Court Again Fails to Protect Americans from Racially ...

Five Years After Shameful Voting Rights Act Decision, U.S. Supreme Court Again Fails to Protect Americans from Racially ...

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Discusses the Trump Administration’s Cruel Immigration Policies on MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin

LDF Requests Documents and Information on Immigrant Detention from Federal Agencies

LDF Files Amicus Brief in California Supreme Court Criticizing Race-Based Jury Selection

LDF Urges California Lawmakers to Change Police Use-of-Deadly-Force Standard

U.S. Supreme Court Punts Decisions on Partisan Gerrymandering

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Race, Bias, and Justice on Stay Tuned with Preet

LDF Statement on Lawsuit Involving Harvard’s Admissions Process

LDF Statement on Qualified Immunity Decision in the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Supreme Court Jeopardizes Voters’ Rights by Approving Ohio Voter Purge Process

LDF’s Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Discusses NYPD Killing of Arthur Miller on NY1

Civil Rights Organizations Demand Court Order Requiring NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

LDF Statement on Confirmation of Kenneth L. Marcus to Lead U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

Supreme Court Reaffirms Core Anti-Discrimination Principles in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

LDF Statement on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Reform the Admissions Process of the ...

Civil Rights and Faith Leaders Send Tulsa Mayor and City Council Chair Letter Demanding Police Reforms

LDF President Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC Town Hall on Implicit Bias

LDF Condemns Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Judicial Nominees Vitter and Oldham

LDF Appeals Manhattan DA’s Failure to Respond to Information Request for Materials on Gang Database

Sherrilyn Ifill and Heather McGhee Respond to Preview of Starbucks’ Anti-Bias Training

LDF Statement on the House’s Passage of the FIRST STEP Act

U.S. Supreme Court Undermines Workers’ Rights

LDF Files Supreme Court Petition in Alabama Police Excessive Force Case

LDF Sues the U.S. Department of Education for Failure to Respond to FOIA Request

LDF Opposes Confirmation of Judicial Nominee Andrew Oldham

LDF Files Suit Against U.S. Justice Department Over FOIA Violations

Leading Civil Rights Organizations Statement on Release of Report on Community Reforms to NYPD Practices

LDF Statement on Attorney General Sessions’ Disregard for Rule of Law

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Major Employment Discrimination Case Targeting Natural Black Hairstyles

LDF Condemns Confirmation of Circuit Court Judges at Breakneck Speed

LDF Statement on the House Judiciary Committee Advancing the First Step Act

LDF Serves Information Request on Manhattan DA for Materials Related to Gang Policing Databases

Parents and Advocates Push Back on Attempt to Roll Back Desegregation Efforts in Hartford Public Schools

Civil Rights Groups Urge Senators to Oppose the Protect and Serve Act of 2018

Civil Rights Groups Sue HUD over Suspended Implementation of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

LDF Statement on Google Banning Bail Bond Industry Ads

National Civil Rights Groups and Fair Housing Advocates File Brief Holding Bank of America and Wells Fargo Accountable ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Starbucks Anti-Discrimination Training on Sirius XM

LDF Statement on 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in Texas Voter ID Case

‘Engaging in Education Equity’ to Ensure Every Student Truly Succeeds

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments in Texas Voting Rights and Racial Gerrymandering Case

Three African American Racial Justice Leaders Respond to Starbucks Effort to End Bias In Its Company

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment

Advocates for Civil and Reproductive Rights Call for Vitter’s Withdrawal

LDF Statement on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Plan to Restore Voting Rights to People with Felony Convictions

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Anti-Discrimination Training for Starbucks Employees on NPR

Haitian Civil Rights Organizations Join Two of the Nation’s Oldest Civil Rights Organizations in TPS Lawsuit

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Keynote Speech at “Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50” Conference

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Local and National Experts to Develop Anti-Discrimination Training Curriculum for Starbucks ...

LDF’s Todd Cox in Op-Ed for CNN: A Judicial Nominee Who Won’t Support Decision in Landmark Brown Case ...

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Spoke with the National Law Journal About Five Major Milestones in the Legal Fight Against ...

Lawyers Behind Challenge to NYPD’s Use of Stop-and-Frisk Pen Op-Ed in New York Times About Need to Implement ...

Civil Rights Groups Call for Congressional Action on Fatal Police Shootings

Sumter County, SC’s Proposed School Closures and Electoral Changes Are Potentially Harmful to Black Communities

LDF Files Supreme Court Petition in Major Employment Discrimination Case Targeting Natural Black Hairstyles

LDF Statement on NYPD Shooting of Saheed Vassell

Job Applicants Enter Settlement with Target Corporation over Discriminatory Criminal Background Screening Policy

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for CNN: King’s Place in History is Still Unfolding

Advocates Convey Support for Civil Rights and School Safety to Secretary DeVos

Louisiana Bill Would Provide Black Voters in Terrebonne Parish the Opportunity to Elect Judges of Their Choice

Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign

LDF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban

LDF Responds to President Trump’s De-Legitimizing Judicial Independence

LDF Responds to Citizenship Status Question Inclusion on 2020 Census

LDF Statement on Louisiana AG’s Decision Not to Charge Baton Rouge Police Officers for Shooting Death of Alton ...

LDF Remembers Linda Brown Thompson

LDF Statement on Passing of Linda Brown

LDF Opposes Georgia Bill That Threatens to Suppress Minority Voting Participation

LDF Raises Concerns About Johns Hopkins University’s Proposed Plan for Private Police Force

LDF Sends Letter to Pleasant Grove Alabama Mayor Over Serious Concerns With At-Large Electoral Method

LDF Responds to Trump Administration Proposal to Pursue Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers

LDF’s Marne Lenox Pens Op-Ed for Refinery29: The School Walkout Was A Powerful, But Privileged Protest

LDF’s Todd Cox: How a Case Currently Before the Supreme Court Could Potentially Unravel Landmark Civil Rights Protections

LDF Provides Feedback on Baltimore Police Department’s Draft Use-of-Force Policies

LDF Calls on Florida Sheriffs and School Districts to Refuse to Arm School Staff

LDF Urges Trump Administration to Keep School Discipline Guidance and Disband Commission

LDF Offers Testimony Supporting Changes to Maryland’s Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights

African-American Civil Rights Leaders Strongly Urge Attorney General Sessions to Include Civil Rights in DOJ’s Priorities

LDF Statement on Passage of Florida Gun Law

LDF’s Monique Dixon and Nicole Dooley in Op-Ed for AFRO: Baltimore Students Deserve to Feel Safe

Civil Rights Organizations Urge HUD To Keep Anti-Discrimination Language In Mission Statement

Leading Civil Rights Organizations Urge Court to Recognize How Oppressive and Racially Biased Policing Constrains the Freedom to ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Georgia Fair Housing Case

Sherrilyn Ifill in New York Times: Seeking Equal Justice for Black People is Part of An American Agenda, ...

LDF and ACLU of MD Call for Transparency from Maryland Courts Concerning Police Conduct

Sherrilyn Ifill’s Latest Op-Ed for TIME: Violent Policies Fall Hardest on Students of Color

Dr. Megan Ming Francis Joins LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute

LDF Calls for Investigation into Texas Judge Michael McSpadden Over Racist Remarks

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins “Pod Save the People” Podcast to Discuss Judicial Nominations and Voting Rights

Civil Rights Groups File Information Request with NYPD for Materials Related to Gang Policing Policies

LDF’s Cristian Farias: Baltimore Cannot Reform its Police Alone

LDF Urges 11th Circuit to Give Plaintiffs Day in Court in Challenge to Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID ...

LDF Files Motion for an Expedited Appeal in Challenge to Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law

LDF Sends List of Questions to Baltimore City Council for Commissioner-Designate De Sousa to Answer at Confirmation Hearing

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Agrees To Uphold Rule Ensuring Access To Housing In High Opportunity ...

LDF Statement on Special Counsel’s Allegations of Russian Efforts to Suppress Black Votes

LDF Offers Support for Key Provisions of Proposed Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2017

Eleventh Circuit Reverses District Court Decision, Preventing Gardendale Secession from Alabama School District

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Ohio Death Penalty Case

LDF Statement on Elimination of DOJ’s Community Relations Service in Trump Administration’s Proposed Budget

LDF Statement on Guilty Verdicts for Baltimore Detectives Marcus Taylor and Daniel Hersl

LDF’s Leah Aden Explains Why At-Large Voting Systems Have Helped Cause Louisiana’s “gavel gap” in The Advocate

U.S. Census Bureau Will Continue to Count Incarcerated Individuals as Residents of Prisons, Contributing to the Diminished Voting ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to Discuss Baltimore Police Corruption Trial

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Baltimore Police Corruption Trial on Democracy Now

Texas Federal Court Ruling Undermines Employment Discrimination Protections for People With Records

Civil Rights Groups Call for Oversight Hearing on NYPD Gang Policing Practices

LDF Expresses Concerns About Baltimore Police Recruits Who Graduated the Academy Despite Failing Constitutional Policing Tests

LDF Provides Feedback on Independent Monitor’s Draft Plan for First Year of Implementing Policing Reform Agreement in Baltimore

LDF Files FOIA Request with Department of Labor Regarding Tip Pooling Proposal

This Black History Month, LDF Revisits Key Milestones in Civil Rights

New Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Response to Removal of Temporary Protective Status for ...

LDF’s Marquis Jenkins: Justice for Walter Scott is Not Just a Strong Sentence for Michael Slager, but Also ...

LDF Statement on Replacement of Kevin Davis as Baltimore Police Commissioner

LDF Condemns Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on President Trump’s Judicial and Executive Nominees

LDF’s Todd A. Cox: Praising the “Dream,” Deferring its Promise

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for TIME: President Trump’s First Year Was an Affront to Civil Rights

LDF’s Coty Montag Pens Op-Ed for The Hill: Fifty Years On, HUD Abandons Dr. King’s Vision of Integrated ...

LDF Statement on NYPD’s Violent Response to Peaceful Immigration Protest

LDF Files Notice of Appeal in Alabama Photo ID Case

Interview with LDF’s Leah Aden in Splinter News: What’s at Stake in SCOTUS Voting Rights Case

LDF Statement on Court’s Dismissal of Alabama Voter ID Lawsuit

LDF’s Sam Spital and Leah Aden in CNN Op-Ed: Voting Can’t Be Use It or Lose It

LDF Statement on Nomination of Kenneth L. Marcus to Lead U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

LDF Files FOIA Appeal with the U.S. Justice Department for Documents Relating to the North Charleston, S.C. Police ...

LDF Urges Alabama Secretary of State’s Office to Prevent Voting Issues in Future Elections

Civil Rights Groups Send Letter to DHS Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Trump’s Now-Disbanded Voter Suppression Commission on MSNBC

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for Newsweek: Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Was Always About Race—And It Still Is

Civil Rights, Housing, and Community Development Organizations Call on HUD to Maintain a Critical Fair Housing Tool and ...

LDF Condemns Renomination of Thomas Farr; Renews Call for Additional Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet: Why Disbanding the #ShamCommission Isn’t the End of the Fight

Civil Rights Organizations File FOIA Requests with Justice Department for Materials Related to Policing Reform Efforts

Tribute to LDF Board Member, the Hon. Charles Byron Renfrew

Federal Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Against U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Lawsuit Brought by Coalition ...

LDF Statement on Attorney General Sessions Rescinding 25 Guidance Documents

LDF’s Todd Cox Discusses Voting Rights in Alabama on NewsOne Now

TMI Fellow Richard Rothstein Discusses His Book “The Color of Law” on NewsOne Now

LDF Sends Letter to Baltimore County Council on Affordable Housing in Proposed Towson Row Development Plan

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for TIME: Black Voters in Alabama Mattered Way Before Doug Jones Beat Roy Moore

Civil Rights Groups To Present Argument In Lawsuit Against U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension ...

LDF’s Todd Cox Discusses Trump’s Judicial Nominees with Huffington Post

LDF’s Todd Cox: Senators Must Work Harder To Properly Judge Our Judges

LDF Sends Letter to Alabama Secretary of State Identifying Voting Issues Observed During Special U.S. Senate Election

LDF Statement on FCC Vote to Dismantle Net Neutrality Rules

LDF Celebrates Ruling From New York’s Highest Court to Help End Racially-Tainted Wrongful Convictions

LDF to Deliver Oral Arguments in Eleventh Circuit in Ongoing Fight to Desegregate Alabama School District

LDF Statement on Senator Grassley Advising the White House to Reconsider the Judicial Nominations of Brett Talley and ...

LDF Client Pens Op-Ed in New York Times on Our Case Challenging Alabama’s Voter ID Law Which Disenfranchises ...

LDF Client Pens Op-ed in New York Times on Our Case Challenging Alabama’s Voter ID Law Which Disenfranchises ...

LDF Submits Testimony for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Class of Job Applicants Reach Settlement Resolving Lawsuit over Discriminatory Impact of WMATA’s Criminal Background Screening Policy

LDF’s Leah Aden in CityLab: At-Large Electoral Method in Columbus, Ohio Could be Racially Discriminatory

LDF’s Leah Aden in City Lab: At-Large Electoral Method in Columbus, OH Might Be Racially Discriminatory

LDF Statement on Sentencing of Former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager

LDF’s Cristian Farias on Masterpiece Cakeshop: We’ve Already Litigated This

LDF Returns to Appellate Court to Protect Wins Against Texas’ Voter ID Laws

LDF’s JP Schnapper-Casteras Connects LDF SCOTUS Case Addressing Racial Discrimination to Masterpiece Cakeshop in Harvard Law Review

LDF Files Open Records Request Concerning Tulsa Police Department

LDF Releases Report on the Effects of Implicit Bias in School Discipline for Students of Color

LDF Provides Input on Independent Monitor’s Priorities for First Year of Implementing Policing Reform Agreement in Baltimore

LDF’s Janai Nelson: Tamir Rice, the Loss of Black Innocence and the Still Urgent Need for Policing Reform

LDF Opposes Confirmation of Judicial Nominee Mark Norris

Thirty-Six National and State Organizations Jointly Demand Additional Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Brett Talley and Thomas Farr

LDF’s Leah Aden: Don’t Politicize the 2020 Census

LDF’s Todd A. Cox Pens You’re on Your Own: DOJ Done Providing Guidance Clarifying Federal Law

LDF Calls on Trump Administration to Keep School Discipline Guidance

LDF Sends Letter to Columbus City Council Over At-Large Electoral Method

LDF Calls for New Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings for Brett Talley and Thomas Farr

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Trump’s Unqualified Judicial Nominees on MSNBC

Fifth Circuit Rejects Louisiana’s Attempt to Prematurely Appeal Voting Rights Decision

Stafford County Circuit Court Declines Relief to Voters Unable to Certify Provisional Ballots

LDF’s Kyle Barry Discusses the Lack of Diversity in Judicial Candidates On NewsOne Now

LDF’s Kyle Barry: No End in (Over)Sight: Civil Rights Questions for Sessions

LDF Files Emergency Lawsuit in Virginia State Court Seeking Relief for Voters on Election Day

LDF’s Kyle Barry: Trump Threatens Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law with “Not Qualified” Nominees

LDF Defends Intentional Discrimination Ruling Against Texas Photo ID Law on Appeal and Fights for Full Relief for ...

LDF Statement on Trial Board’s Determination Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Did Not Violate Department Policies

Civil Rights & Criminal Justice Reform Organizations File Amicus Brief in Louisiana Felony Disenfranchisement Case

LDF Files Response to Alabama’s Motion for Summary Judgment in Alabama Photo Voter ID Law Case

LDF Statement on Acquittal of NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs for Delrawn Small’s Death

LDF Statement on Acquittal of NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs for Delrawn Small’s Death

The Moment is Now: NAACP legal 31st Annual National Equal Justice Awards

LDF’s Leah Aden Discusses EEOC Guidance on Use of Criminal Background Checks in The Nation

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein Wins Brooklyn Public Library 2017 Literary Prize

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Texas Death Penalty Case

Detroit Homeowners Seek Appeal to Michigan Supreme Court in Lawsuit Challenging Racially Discriminatory Tax Foreclosures

Detroit Homeowners Seek Appeal to Michigan Supreme Court in Lawsuit Challenging Racially Discriminatory Tax Foreclosures

LDF’s Kyle Barry: What You Need to Know About the Senate’s Big Week on Judges

LDF’s Ajmel Quereshi Discusses Our Work to Fight Racial Profiling on Airlines in Washington Post

LDF Files U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Same-Sex Couple Denied Public Accommodations in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

LDF’s Leah Aden in Atlanta Black Star: Fighting for a Fair Chance to Elect a Judicial Candidate in ...

LDF Urges Texas Secretary of State to Protect Voting Rights of Hurricane Harvey Victims

LDF Sends Letter to U.S. Attorney in St. Louis Requesting an Investigation into Police Actions at Ongoing Protests

LDF & North Charleston Partners Send Letter to City Leadership Demanding Renewed Commitment to Community-Oriented Policing Reforms

LDF & North Charleston Partners Send Letter to City Leadership Demanding Renewed Commitment to Community-Oriented Policing Reforms

Civil and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus Brief Supporting EEOC Guidance on Employer Use of Criminal Background Checks ...

LDF Responds to Senate Resolution Repealing New CFPB Rule

LDF’s Monique Dixon: North Charleston Residents Should Pressure City Officials to Demand Policing Report

LDF’s Leah Aden: Public Money is Going Toward Defending Discrimination in Louisiana

Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families

Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families

Civil Rights Leaders Urge Senate Judiciary Committee to Oppose District Court Nominee Thomas Farr

LDF’s Kyle Barry: Keeping (Over)Sight of Civil Rights

LDF Files FOIA Requests with St. Louis-Area Law Enforcement Agencies Concerning Police Actions at Ongoing Protests

Muslim Advocates and LDF Urge Airlines to Institute Anti-Bias Training

LDF’s Leah Aden in ProPublica: Gill v. Whitford SCOTUS Outcome Could Offer Tool for Fighting Racial Discrimination

LDF Pens Letter to Texas Secretary of State Urging Protection of Voters after Hurricane Harvey

Janai Nelson Discusses SCOTUS Gerrymandering Case on AM Joy

LDF Statement on FBI’s Offensive “Black Identity Extremist” Report

LDF Hosts Reception Celebrating the Thurgood Marshall Institute

LDF Launches National “Reclaim Your Vote” Campaign to Combat Voter Suppression

LDF Statement on Court Approval of Independent Monitor Team for Baltimore Consent Decree

LDF’s Janai Nelson in Op-Ed for Trib Talk: Texas is Textbook Case for Restoring VRA to Full Strength

LDF Files Partial Summary Judgment Motion Opposing Alabama Voter ID Law

LDF and Impact Fund’s Op-Ed in The Hill: American Workers’ Civil Rights Depend on Access to Open Courts

LDF Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s Swearing-In to the U.S. Supreme Court

LDF Files TPIA Requests Related to Conditions at Texas Prisons and Detention Facilities Following Hurricane Harvey

TRIBUTE: Opal E. Bond, LDF Office Administrator from 1981-2015

LDF Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief Opposing Voter Purges

LDF’s Leah Aden Discusses Our Pivotal Louisiana Voting Rights Case with Rewire

LDF Statement on Proposed Independent Monitor Team for Baltimore Consent Decree

LDF Testifies on Voting Rights Before the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee

LDF Files Amicus Brief Opposing President’s Travel Ban

LDF Files FOIA Request to Ensure Safety of Prisoners During Emergencies

Janai Nelson Discusses Trump’s Voter Suppression Commission on AM Joy

NAACP LDF Statement on Justice Department Scaling Back Key Policing Reform Initiative

LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute Launches New Website

LDF Statement on Reports Suggesting the Justice Department Will Not Charge Baltimore Police Officers Responsible for Killing Freddie ...

LDF Pens Letter Urging Investigation of Prison Conditions in Beaumont, Texas Following Hurricane Harvey

LDF Client Beverly Harrison Shares Story of Being Denied Employment Because of A Decades-Old Conviction in The Marshall ...

Civil Rights Leaders Meet with Senate Democratic Leadership, Discuss Efforts to Combat Hate and Protect Civil Rights

Statement In Response to the Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing of Eric Dreiband, the Nominee to be Assistant ...

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Gill v. Whitford Challenging Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Scheme

LDF’s Deuel Ross in CityLab: ID Laws Disenfranchise Voters in Wake of a Hurricane

LDF Statement on the Trump Administration Ending DACA

LDF’s Kyle Barry: It’s Time for Senators Against White Supremacy to Match Rhetoric to Votes on Nominees

LatinoJustice and MALDEF Join LDF and The Ordinary People Society in Lawsuit Challenging EIC

LDF Statement in Response to September 6 Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing

LDF Statement on Trump Administration Halting Equal Pay Data Collection

Janai Nelson Discusses Ending the Influence of White Supremacy in Public Policy in the Huffington Post

LDF Statement on Trump Administration Ending Restrictions on Transfer of Military Equipment to Local Law Enforcement

LDF Statement on the President’s Reported Plan to End Ban on Transfer of Military Equipment to Local Law ...

LDF Statement on the Pardoning of Joe Arpaio

LDF Files FOIA Request with the U.S. Justice Department for Documents Relating to the North Charleston, S.C. Police ...

Texas District Court Permanently Strikes Down Intentionally Discriminatory Photo ID Law

LDF Statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Decision Not to Charge NYPD Officers for Killing Mohamed Bah

Natasha Merle Discusses LDF’s Lawsuit Against Trump’s Voter Suppression Commission on The Breach

A Tribute to Dick Gregory

LDF Statement on New York Police Union’s ‘Blue Racism’ Video

A Tribute to George Bundy Smith and E. Richard Larson

Sherrilyn Ifill on Face the Nation: Congress Has to Deal With Reality of White Supremacy In Their Policies

LDF’s Sam Spital in Op-Ed for Salon: There’s Never Been “Many Sides” to American Racial Terror

Court Decision in Louisiana Voting Rights Case Changes the Course of History for Black Voters for the Better

LDF Statement on Removal of Carl Paladino from Buffalo School Board

Sherrilyn Ifill Says Congress Should Take Real Action on The Rachel Maddow Show

Civil Rights Groups File Amicus Brief As SCOTUS Scrutinizes Workers’ Rights

Civil Rights Groups Statement on Mystic Valley Regional Charter School’s Updated Hair and Make-Up Policy

Federal Court Finds Texas Intentionally Discriminated Against Hispanic Voters

LDF Statement on the President’s Backtracking on Condemnation of White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on HUD’s Suspension of Key Rule for Housing Vouchers

Sherrilyn Ifill on White Nationalist Violence in Charlottesville with Ari Melber

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Violence in Charlottesville on Andrea Mitchell Reports

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the President’s Attack on Merck CEO for Principled Stance

LDF Statement on the President’s Latest Reaction to White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville with Joy Ann Reid

LDF Statement on the Violent White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

LDF Statement on the Justice Department’s New Interpretation of Federal Voting Rights Law

LDF Appeals District Court Ruling in Alabama Desegregation Case

Sherrilyn Ifill in New York Times: Racial Justice Demands Affirmative Action

Janai Nelson Discusses DOJ’s Intent to Challenge Affirmative Action on Andrea Mitchell Reports

LDF Sends FOIA Request to USDOT in Response to Red Line Complaint Closure

LDF Statement on Reports Detailing Justice Department Efforts to Undermine Affirmative Action

Michigan Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Lawsuit Challenging Racially Discriminatory Tax Foreclosures in Detroit

Civil Rights & Worker Rights Groups Seek to Defend Landmark EEOC Criminal Records Guidance in Texas Federal Lawsuit

LDF Statement on President Trump’s Remarks Encouraging Police Brutality

LDF Condemns Justice Department Retreat from LGBTQ Rights

Sherrilyn Ifill in Salon: Trump’s Election Integrity Commission is Illegal and Unconstitutional

LDF Responds to President’s Tweets Regarding Transgender Americans in the Military

LDF Opposes House Vote Against Vulnerable Consumers

Todd Cox Discusses the Voter Fraud Myth on PoliticsNation

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission on AM Joy

LDF Statement on the Proposed Pretrial Integrity and Safety Act of 2017

LDF and Local Alabama Organization File Federal Lawsuit Challenging President’s “Election Integrity” Commission

LDF Files Response to Texas and DOJ in Voter ID Case

LDF Provides Feedback on Monitor Candidates in Baltimore

LDF Statement on U.S. Transportation Department’s Decision to Close Red Line Inquiry

LDF Finds Disturbing Racial Disparities in North Charleston PD’s Complaint Process

LDF Welcomes Senate Bill to Shut Down President’s Election Integrity Commission

LDF Files FOIA requests to Ensure Key Civil Rights Protections for Students

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Whether Black Lives Matter to the Courts

Sherrilyn Ifill Exposes Absurdity of Trump’s Election Integrity Commission in Washington Post

LDF Welcomes New Rule to Protect Consumers from Predatory Financial Products

LDF and Allies Announce Recommendations for Ohio State Education Plan

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Shooting of NYPD Officer Familia

Five More Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall

Sherrilyn Ifill on The Rachel Maddow Show: Voter Fraud Lie Being Used to Engage in Voter Suppression

LDF and ACLU of Michigan Continue to Fight for Flint Residents Once Again at Risk of Losing Homes

What You Need to Know About President Trump’s Pick to Lead DOJ’s Civil Rights Division

LDF Statement on Nomination of Eric Dreiband to Lead Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division

LDF Statement on Kris Kobach’s Request for Publicly Available Voter-Roll Data

LDF Statement on Selection of the Civilian Oversight Task Force in Baltimore

Five Facts About the Education Trend Threatening to Further Segregate Schools

LDF’s Leah Aden in Op-Ed for The Hill: It’s Time to Restore Full Power to the Voting Rights ...

Christina A. Swarns to Step Down as LDF Litigation Director to Lead Office of Appellate Defender

LDF’s Raymond Audain Explains Why Buffalo School Board Member Carl Paladino Must Be Removed

LDF Statement on Mistrial of Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer for Samuel DuBose’s Death

LDF’s Monique Lin-Luse on Communities Seceding from School Districts and Intentional Discrimination in 2017

LDF Statement on Temporary Restraining Order to Stop the Lowering of Desegregation Standards in Hartford

LDF Condemns Education Department’s Decision to Scale Back Civil Rights Enforcement

LDF Statement on Temporary Restraining Order to Stop the Lowering of Desegregation Standards in Hartford

LDF Statement on Acquittal of St. Anthony Police Officer for Death of Philando Castile

LDF Statement on the Second Anniversary of the Mother Emanuel Shooting

Dignity in Schools Campaign, LDF, Local Advocates Announce Recommendations for Mississippi State Education Plan

LDF’s Kyle Barry Breaks Down Civil Rights Views of Judicial Nominees in Politico Magazine

LDF Files Amicus Brief in Circuit Court Defending Voting Rights Act

Terrebonne Parish: LDF’s Post-Voting Rights Trial Findings

The Advocate: We Still Need Majority-Minority Judicial Sub-Districts

LDF Urges NY State Assembly Members to Oppose Bill Expanding Hate Crime Coverage to Law Enforcement

Christina Swarns Discusses Racially-Charged Death Penalty Case of Duane Buck in New York Times

Civil Rights Leaders Call for Scrutiny of DeVos’ Commitment to Civil Rights and Students

LDF Presents Argument in Louisiana Charter School Desegregation Case

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive Harvard Law Award

Ending Racial Profiling of Muslims on Airlines

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Voter ID Bill in Texas

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Files Amicus Brief in Key Texas Voting Rights Case

LDF Statement on Charges Filed Against NYPD Officer Responsible for Killing Deborah Danner

LDF Statement on Internal Discipline for Cleveland Police Officers Responsible for Killing Tamir Rice

LDF Expands Efforts to Monitor Presidential Election Commission

LDF Statement on Alabama Governor Signing Bill Enfranchising Thousands

LDF Statement on New Research Showing an Increase in School Segregation in the South

LDF Calls on Congress to reject the President’s Education Budget

LDF’s Director of Policy Todd Cox Testifies at EEOC Hearing

LDF Statement on Internal Discipline for Baltimore Police Officers Responsible for Killing Freddie Gray

LDF Statement on Lynching Remark by Mississippi State Legislator

LDF Urges Alabama Governor to Sign Bill Enfranchising Thousands

Civil Rights Groups Retained to Represent African American Teens Punished for Wearing Braids at Massachusetts Charter School

Civil Rights Groups Retained to Represent African American Teens Punished for Wearing Braids at Massachusetts Charter School

LDF Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Two Racially Gerrymandered Districts in North Carolina

Case in Point: LDF Outlines Four Holes in Officer Betty Shelby’s Defense

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Acquittal of Tulsa Police Officer for Death of Terence Crutcher

Sherrilyn Ifill in CNN Op-Ed: Brown’s Legacy Provides Important Lesson at Challenging Moment in Nation

LDF’s Todd Cox Joins NPR’s On Point to Discuss DOJ Charging and Sentencing Directive

ACLU and LDF Call on Flint City Council to Impose Moratorium on Property Liens for Unpaid Water Bills

Richard Rothstein in The Washington Post: Brown’s Promise Unattainable Without Desegregation of Neighborhoods

Richard Rothstein in Op-Ed for The Guardian: De Facto Segregation is Largely a Myth

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Review North Carolina Voter ID Law

LDF’s Todd Cox in Op-Ed for The Hill: Congress Must Reject Political Pandering and Focus on Real Policing ...

Janai Nelson Discusses Myth of Voter Fraud and Other Barriers to the Ballot on AM Joy

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses AG Sessions Regressive Drug Policy on AM Joy

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Criminal Justice Reform on All In with Chris Hayes

LDF’s Kyle Barry: Grassley Should Uphold Senate’s Critical Role in Appointing Federal Judges

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Missouri General Assembly to Oppose Proposed Enhanced Penalties for Crimes Against Law Enforcement

LDF Statement on Attorney General Sessions Charging and Sentencing Directive

Civil Rights Organizations Call for Special Prosecutor in Russia Investigation

Civil Rights Organizations Call for Special Prosecutor in Russia Investigation

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Expected Voter Fraud Commission

LDF Files Freedom of Information Act Requests in Response to Voter Fraud Commission

Sherrilyn Ifill and Richard Rothstein Join NPR’s 1A to Address the Continued Effects of Housing Segregation

Mother Jones: EPA Abruptly Closes Longstanding Civil Rights Complaint on Landfill in Historic Black Community

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Expresses Concern About Trump Administration’s Nominees to Federal Bench

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Murder Charges in Police Shooting of Jordan Edwards

Monique Lin-Luse in U.S News and World Report: Public Schools Provide True Opportunity to Pursue Integration

LDF’s Christina Swarns Co-Authors Op-Ed in Houston Chronicle on Permanently Ending Harris County’s Unjust Bail System

Houma Times: Terrebonne Judicial Trial Raises Fundamental Questions about Equality of Opportunity for Black Residents

NAACP Legal Defense Fund on Trump’s 100 Days

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the U.S. Justice Department’s Decision Not to Charge Baton Rouge Police Officers ...

Historic Black Community Condemns EPA for Failing to Enforce Civil Rights

NAACP LDF Statement Concerning Former Officer Michael Slager’s Guilty Plea

LDF Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Earl Warren Legal Training Program

LDF Statement on Decision in Important Fair Housing Case

LDF Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board

LDF Marks Anniversary of Batson Decision, Reaffirms Importance of Impartial Jury Selection

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis Statement on Preliminary Injunction to End Wealth-Based Bail ...

The Atlantic Covers LDF’s Pivotal Voting Rights Case Challenging Judicial Elections in Louisiana

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Directive to Keep White Students Together in Florida Elementary School

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule

LDF Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill

LDF Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Calling for Local Control of K-12 Schools

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a Coalition of Organizations Committed to Advancing Constitutional Policing Send Letter to OMB ...

Trial in Baton Rouge is the Culmination of a Nearly 30-Year Battle for Voting Rights for Black People

LDF Responds to Decision in Key Alabama Desegregation Case

Federal Judge Grants Class Certification in Case Challenging WMATA’s Use of Overly Broad and Punitive Criminal Background Screening ...

Jin Hee Lee Discusses LDF’s Opposition to NYPD’s Body Worn Camera Pilot Program on the Brian Lehrer Show

Sherrilyn Ifill and Deuel Ross Discuss Importance of Redistricting in Florissant to Ensure Black Voters Can Participate Equally ...

Civil Rights Groups File Brief with Florida Supreme Court in Support of State Attorney Ayala’s Opposition to Death ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Florida State Legislature’s Resolution Exonerating the “Groveland Four”

Baltimore in Focus

Christina Swarns Discusses Victory In Racially-Charged Death Penalty Case of Duane Buck on As It Happens

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Objects to Policies and Procedures of NYPD’s Body Worn Camera Pilot Program

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Second Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Second Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death 

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Second Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Says Courts Should Instruct Juries on Racial Bias in Eyewitness Identifications

Janai Nelson on CBS News: Voter Fraud Myth in Texas Debunked Many Times Over

Federal Court Vacates Death Sentence of NAACP Legal Defense Fund Client Duane Buck Following Supreme Court Victory Last ...

LDF’s Monique Dixon Discusses the Power of Federal Policing Reform

LDF Statement on the Passing of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam

LDF Sends Letter to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson Urging Immediate Stay of Seven Scheduled Executions Over 11 Days

Sherrilyn Ifill on Democracy Now: We Can’t Go Backwards on Policing and Drug Policy

Federal Court Finds Texas’ Voter ID Law Passed With Discriminatory Purpose

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on the Denial of the Request to Intervene in the Justice Department Review ...

Sherrilyn Ifill on Politics Nation: AG Jeff Sessions Walking Away From Obligation to Protect Communities From Unconstitutional Policing

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Court Approval of the Consent Decree for the Baltimore Police Department

Judge Gorsuch Must Prove Himself To Be a Justice for All Americans

Federal Court Denies Motion to Dismiss NAACP LDF’s Lawsuit Against Discriminatory Alabama Voter ID Law

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Requests to Intervene in Justice Department Review of the Baltimore Police Department to Ensure ...

LDF Statement on Judge Gorsuch’s Failure to Attract 60 Votes Necessary to End Debate on Nomination

Monique Dixon Discusses Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing on Marc Steiner Show

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule

LDF Statement on the Department of Justice’s Decision to Delay Baltimore Consent Decree Hearing and Memo Directing Review ...

Reflections of Former President and Director-Counsel Ted Shaw on the Legacy of William T. Coleman, Jr.

LDF Commemorates William T. Coleman, Jr., 1920-2017

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis File Brief Urging Immediate End to Wealth-Based Bail ...

LDF Statement on the Resignation of Richard Haste, Former NYPD Officer Involved in the 2012 Killing of Ramarley ...

LDF Commemorates Roger Wilkins, 1932-2017

Sherrilyn Ifill in CNN: Tragic Killing of Timothy Caughman Act of Domestic Terrorism

Angel Harris on Democracy Now!: We Must Look at Racial Disparities of the Death Penalty

LDF Urges Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Address Uptick in Race-Based Hate Crimes

Vanita Gupta to be New President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

LDF’s Todd Cox on the Three Questions Senators Must Ask Judge Gorsuch

Happy Birthday, LDF! 5 Things You May Not Know About the Nation’s Oldest Civil Rights Legal Organization

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch’s Record on Civil Rights on AM Joy

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Releases Comprehensive Report on the Civil Rights Record of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, Nominee ...

LDF’s Deuel Ross Co-Authors Op-ed in Hartford Courant on Ensuring Students Get Integrated Education

LDF Supports Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala in Historic Decision to Not Seek the Death Penalty in Future ...

LDF’s Sonia Gill Hernandez and Angel Harris in Courier-Journal: “Blue Lives Matter” Bill is Harmful to Communities and ...

LDF Urges Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin to Veto “Blue Lives Matter” Bill

Statement from Sherrilyn Ifill on Shameful Racially Charged Remarks from Rep. Steve King

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Heads to Court in Louisiana Voting Rights Case

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden Discusses Minority Judgeship Lawsuit in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Janai Nelson Joins TheFourFiftyOne Podcast to Highlight LDF’s Voting Rights Work

James Cadogan and Melanie R. Newman Join LDF in Key Leadership Positions

LDF Statement on Senate Vote Eliminating Critical Public Education Safeguards

LDF’s Janai Nelson Joins MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to Discuss Crucial Texas Voter ID Case

LDF Files Brief in Support of Older Worker Seeking SCOTUS Review of Employment Discrimination Suit

Civil Rights Leaders Meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions

Civil Rights Leaders Meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Comments on the Proposed Baltimore Consent Decree

New Report Highlights Stark Racial Disparities in Prisoner Exonerations

The Times Picayune: Breaking Down Barriers for Black Terrebonne Parish Voters

President Trump’s Revised Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees Continues to Persecute and Discriminate Against Muslims

LDF Applauds SCOTUS Ruling That Racial Bias Cannot Be Tolerated in the Criminal Justice System

LDF Sends Letter to Senate Leadership Opposing Repeal of Accountability Regulations of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

LDF’s Deuel Ross on AL.com: More than 100,000 Alabama Registered Voters Can’t Cast a Ballot

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Future of Civil and Voting Rights Under Jeff Sessions on AM Joy

Janai Nelson Discusses Challenging Texas’s Voter ID Law on Slate’s Amicus Podcast with Dahlia Lithwick

LDF Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate AG Sessions

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Participates in Historic Selma March Anniversary Events, Calls for Renewed Attention to Challenging Discriminatory ...

LDF Files Brief Supporting G.G. in First Transgender Rights Case to Reach Supreme Court

LDF on HBCU Executive Order, Race-Conscious Policies Key to Educational Equality

LDF Returns to Texas Federal Court to Show Strictest Photo ID Law in Country Enacted with the Intent ...

60 Civil Rights Groups Urge DeVos to Select an Assistant Secretary who will Protect Civil Rights of All ...

LDF Opposes Voter Fraud Task Force, Urges Leaders Not to Legitimize

LDF on Justice Department’s Decision to Rescind Obama-Era Guidance Reducing Federal Use of Private Prisons

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Statement on Voting Rights in Texas

Civil and Human Rights Community Condemns Rescission of Title IX Guidance Clarifying Protections for Transgender Students

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Wins Major Victory in United States Supreme Court

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses New Voter Suppression Efforts on AM Joy

100,000 National Guard Troops Would Turn Our Country into a Police State

LDF Applauds Decision of Washington Supreme Court in Favor of Same-Sex Couple Seeking Wedding Floral Arrangements

Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington Post: President Laying Groundwork for Nationwide Voter Intimidation Program

LDF Statement on Recent Deporation Raids

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Powerful Talk at 2017 MAKERS Conference

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Powerful Talk at 2017 MAKERS Conference

The Advocate: Ensuring Terrebonne’s Black Community has Voice in Electing Judges

President Trump’s Executive Orders on Crime Reduction Ignores the Need for Policing Reforms

Attorney General Sessions Must Adhere to Promises, Be Accountable to the People

Joint Statement of Black Women Leaders on Senator Mitch McConnell’s Attempts to Silence Words of Mrs. Coretta Scott ...

Sherrilyn Ifill in Slate on Deliberate Silencing of Coretta Scott King’s Voice for 30 years

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses What Comes Next in Good Magazine

Confirmation of DeVos Shameful Dereliction of Duty

ABA Task Force Report Comes at Critical Time for Criminal Justice Reform

Educational Accountability Regulations Cannot Be Overturned

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on the Tom Joyner Morning Show

LCCHR Releases Powerful Video on Sen. Sessions

Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General Despite His Lifelong Opposition to Civil Rights

LDF Celebrates Black History Month: Looking Back and Forging Ahead

Statement of LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill on the Nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court

Senate Committee Votes in Favor of Betsy DeVos Despite Lack of Experience to Lead DOE

Petition Filed Calling for Removal of Carl Paladino from Buffalo School Board

LDF Announces Consent Decree in Banks v. St. James Parish School Board

Elizabeth Olsson: Hearing Underscores Betsy DeVos Unqualified to Lead Department of Education

Janai Nelson in Huffington Post Blog: DOJ’s Responsibility to Serve as Impartial Bulwark of Democracy

Five Things to Know About Jeff Sessions’ Testimony

Education Advocates Urge State Departments of Education to Improve School Climates Through ESSA State Plans

Sessions, DeVos Hearings Underscore Unqualified to Lead

Statement from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on President Trump’s Discriminatory Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees

Myths Do Not Require a Federal Investigation

Leah Aden in The Intercept: Voter Fraud Lie Used to Disenfranchise Black Voters for Last 150 Years

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins ‘The Stakes’ Podcast to Discuss Policing Reform and Jeff Sessions

Falsehoods on Voting Have Disastrous Consequences

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Delay in Texas Voter ID Hearing on Andrea Mitchell Reports

Leah Aden in ProPublica on Need to Strike Down Texas Photo ID Law Enacted with Discriminatory Purpose

LDF Urges Senate Banking Committee to Oppose Ben Carson for HUD Secretary

LDF Urges Senate Banking Committee to Oppose Ben Carson for HUD Secretary

LDF’s Senior Counsel Leah Aden Joins WVON Radio in Chicago to Discuss Voter Suppression

Department of Transportation Review of Baltimore Red Line Cancellation Critical First Step to Upholding Federal Law

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Joins Women’s Marches in Washington, D.C. and New York City

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Delay in Texas Voter ID Case

Sherrilyn Ifill on Unresolved Investigation into Freddie Gray’s Death in Baltimore Sun

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Salutes President Barack Obama

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Salutes President Barack Obama

Hearing Demonstrates Betsy DeVos Unqualified to Lead Department of Education

Attorney General Lynch a Powerful Force for Civil Rights

Ahead of Hearing, National Civil Rights Leaders Call for Intense Scrutiny of Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Muslim Advocates Commend Flyers’ Bill of Rights

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses the Impact of the Obama Years on PBS NewsHour

National Geographic Travels to Ashurst Bar, Alabama to See the Effects of a Hazardous Waste Dump

Leah Aden in American Prospect: Voting Rights Attacks Follow Historic Pattern

Monique Dixon on the Future of Consent Decrees in the Daily Beast

Read Powerful 1986 Letter from Coretta Scott King Opposing Jeff Sessions for Federal Court Judgeship

Deuel Ross on Discriminatory Voting Changes in the New York Times

Martin Luther King Day 2017: Learning from His Legacy

LDF to HELP Committee: DeVos Record Shows Unprepared to Lead Education Department

Sherrilyn Ifill in CNN Op-Ed: No Attorney General Nominee Has More Troubling Record Than Sessions

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Detailed Examination of Jeff Sessions Hearings on Diane Rehm’s Inaugural Podcast

Stinging DOJ Report Details Entrenched Racial Bias in Chicago Police Department, Systematic Violation of Residents’ Constitutional Rights

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Confirmation Hearing for Jeff Sessions on All In With Chris Hayes

Baltimore Consent Decree Vital Step for Residents Who Have Waited Decades for Reform

Janai Nelson Discusses Racial Progress in America on Brian Lehrer’s POTUS 2017

Five Leading Civil Rights Organizations Deeply Concerned About Nomination of Ben Carson to Lead Department of Housing and ...

LDF on Sessions Hearings: Day of Inspiring Testimony & Record of Hostility to Civil Rights

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Updates Report on Sessions Nomination with Documentary Materials

LDF’s Kyle Barry on Democracy Now: Senator Sessions Unqualified to Defend Civil Rights

NAACP LDF: Sessions Hostile to Principles of Equality, Justice and Civil Rights

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks Senator Sessions and Civil Rights on ABC News

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Report to Judiciary Committee in Opposition to Sessions Nomination to Attorney General of ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Opposition to Jeff Sessions on AM Joy

Jeff Sessions Should Not be People’s Lawyer

Civil Rights Leaders Decry Rushed Confirmation Hearing of Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions

Elizabeth Olsson in the Baltimore Sun: Maryland Must Do Better to Keep Troubled Kids in Class

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Sessions Opposition in The Nation

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Commends USDOT on Agreement to Restore Driver’s License Issuing Offices in Alabama’s ...

LDF Letter to New York State Commissioner of Education Urging Her to Remove Carl Paladino from Buffalo School ...

Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Arrest of Jacqueline Craig by the Fort Worth Police ...

Everything You Need to Know About Jeff Sessions

Kyle Barry: Sessions Unchanged: Hoastility to Civil Rights Advocacy Hallmark of Career

LDF Policy Counsel Kyle Barry on Sessions and Confirmation Process in Roll Call

LDF Assistant Counsel Angel Harris Talking Jury Composition on Huffington Post Politics – Watch the Video

LDF Commemorates Louis Harris, 1921-2016

Sherrilyn Ifill on Random House Big Ideas Night Panel with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Chris Hayes, and Rebecca Traister

Free the Vote: LDF and The Sentencing Project Release New Report on Felony Disenfranchisement

Janai Nelson: Proven Perils of Rolling the Dice on Trump

Janai Nelson: Proven Perils of Rolling the Dice on Trump

LDF Assistant Counsel Angel Harris in Huffington Post on Troubling Jury Trends

LDF’s Kyle Barry: Nominee Sessions Differs from Senator Sessions

Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission

Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein: Criminal Justice Policy Is Education Policy

LDF’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Keynote Address at Baltimore’s Solution Summit

Sessions’ SJQ “Woefully Inadequate”: Groups Call for Delay in Hearing Schedule

LDF to Michigan Senators: Reject Voter Disfranchisement

Thurgood Marshall Institute Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein: We Can’t Meaningfully Integrate Schools Without Desegregating Neighborhoods

Sherrilyn Ifill Discuss Walter Scott Mistrial with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

Sherrilyn Ifill on NPR: Trump DOJ has Obligation to Enforce Nation’s Civil Rights Laws

LDF on Announcement of Andy Puzder for Labor Department

LDF in Louisiana With Prepared to Vote

Sherrilyn Ifill: How Senators Must Fight Confirmation of Jeff Sessions

LDF’s Monique Dixon Discusses Federal Investigations into Police Departments

Joint Statement of Civil Rights and Clergy Leaders Concerning Mistrial of Former Officer Michael Slager

LDF on Carson for HUD: Little to Indicate Housing Experience, Expertise

Monique Lin-Luse on Stout v. Jefferson County: Integrated education a Constitutional right

Almost 150 Civil Rights and Progressive Groups Announce Opposition to Sessions Attorney General Nomination

LDF on No Charges for Officer in Death of Keith Lamont Scott

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Fifth Circuit to Ensure Education Equality in Louisiana Charter School Desegregation Case

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NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Supreme Court Should Not Take Up Texas’s Fight to Maintain Voter Suppression Law

Christina Swarns Discusses Race and the Criminal Justice System on Criminal Injustice

LDF Joins Call to Expand Clemency Eligibility

LDF Calls on the United States Department of Transportation to Immediately Address Discriminatory Passenger Removals by Airlines

LDF Calls on the United States Department of Transportation to Immediately Address Discriminatory Passenger Removals by Airlines

LDF and Earthjustice Urge Alabama Environmental Agency to Oppose Landfill Operation in Historic Black Community

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Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos: What You Need to Know

Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos: What You Need to Know

LDF Connect – November 2016

Janai Nelson in the Boston Herald: Trump’s Disavowal “Disingenuous in the Context of How He Is Building His ...

The Fight Continues to Strike Down Texas’s Discriminatory Photo ID Law, Beyond November’s Election

EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions

What You Need to Know About Sen. Jeff Sessions

LDF and Earthjustice Fight Landfill in Historic Alabama Black Community

LDF on Nomination of Jeff Sessions: Unimaginable He Could Be Entrusted to Serve as Chief Law Enforcement Officer ...

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden on Texas Voter ID Law in Texas Tribune

LDF Statement on Charges in Police Shooting Death of Philando Castile

LDF’s Coty Montag in Mashable on Facebook and Ethnic Affinity Advertising

Leah Aden Discusses Voter Suppression in North Carolina in New Republic

With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility: Facebook Announces Changes to “Ethnic Affinity” Ad Targeting

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Mourns Passing of Trailblazing Journalist Gwen Ifill

John Oliver Encourages Viewers to Support LDF On Last Week Tonight

Joint Statement of Seven Civil Rights Leaders: Vow to Oppose Threats to Racial Justice Under Trump

Joint Statement of Seven Civil Rights Leaders: Vow to Oppose Threats to Racial Justice Under Trump

Janai Nelson on AM Joy: “We Must Remain Oppositional and Outraged.”

Video: Powerful Words from Sherrilyn Ifill on What Comes Next

Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on the ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill: Election Day Demonstrates Need to Restore Voting Rights Act

Ajmel Quereshi in ACSblog: Democracy Means Having Opportunity to Seek Relief For Illegal, Predatory Practices

Christina Swarns in the New York Times: Dylann Roof Shouldn’t Get The Death Penalty

LDF Celebrates The Power of Now at its 30th Annual National Equal Justice Awards Dinner

Joint Statement of Civil Rights Groups on the Murder Trial of Former Officer Michael Slager

LDF: Join us for Policing in Public Housing Community Forum, November 17th in Brooklyn

LDF to Alabama Secretary of State: Ensure All Election Day Personnel Familiar With Voter Protection Laws

Leah Aden in ABA Journal: Voters Without Acceptable Photo ID Have Options in Texas

North Charleston in Focus

Sherrilyn Ifill on PoliticsNation: You Have a Better Chance of Being Struck By Lightning Than Encountering In-Person Voter ...

Leah Aden in Reuters: There are Still Too Many Places Where Voting is Going to be Difficult and ...

Leah Aden in The Intercept: Voter Intimidation Has Gone Hand in Hand with Growing Political Participation of Minorities

LDF: Senator Cruz’s Call for Supreme Court Obstruction Dangerous to Democracy

LDF: DNC and RNC Must Pledge to Enact Measures to Ensure Every Voter Able to Participate Equally and ...

LDF Proud to Be Part of Atlantic Philanthropies Fellowship Program to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism

LDF Joins 19 Organizations and 32 Law School Professors in Filing Amicus Brief Addressing Color Discrimination in Jury ...

Deuel Ross Featured in Guardian Short Documentary on Alabama Voting

LDF Statement on the Police-Involved Shooting Death of Deborah Danner

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Voting Rights and Voting Suppression on POTUS 2016 with Brian Lehrer

Deuel Ross in TPM: These are Places with a History of Voter Intimidation and Also Very Liberal Gun ...

Sherrilyn Ifill in the Washington Post: Chief Cunningham Correctly Identifies the Need to Acknowledge and Apologize as a ...

Christina Swarns Joins Short List of African American Women to Argue Before Supreme Court

Reflections of Former President and Director-Counsel Ted Shaw on the Legacy of Jack Greenberg

Reflections of Former President and Director-Counsel Elaine Jones on the Legacy of Jack Greenberg

President Obama Honors Jack Greenberg

LDF Remembers Civil Rights Icon Jack Greenberg

LDF Remembers Civil Rights Icon Jack Greenberg

LDF Remembers Civil Rights Icon Jack Greenberg

Todd A. Cox Joins NAACP Legal Defense Fund as Director of Policy

Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Racial Bias in Jury Deliberations Case

Liliana Zaragoza in Alliance for Justice: Race Discrimination in Court Trials Must be Eliminated “Root and Branch”

LDF Statement on Death of Ken Thompson, District Attorney for Brooklyn

Duane Buck Death Penalty Case Argued Before the Supreme Court

Ask A Candidate: Vice-Presidential Debate 2016

LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden Comments on Virginia Governor’s Actions to Restore Voting Rights

LDF’s Christina Swarns Argues Buck v. Davis Before the Supreme Court

Vote for LDF in CREDO’s October Donation Challenge

LDF Statement on California Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Over 50,000 Former Felons

Sherrilyn Ifill in Baltimore Sun on Pepper-sprayed 15 Year-old Girl By Police: When Trained on Only a Hammer, ...

Ask A Candidate: Presidential Debate 2016

Texas Petition to U.S. Supreme Court Is an End Run Around the Law

LDF Statement on Tulsa Indictment and Charlotte Video

Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington Post: Tie Federal Funding of Local Law Enforcement to Meaningful Reform

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Race Relations and Policing Reform at Google Zeitgeist Event

Janai Nelson Discusses Officer-Involved Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams

LDF Statement on Decision Not to Press Charges in Police-Involved Death of Korryn Gaines

LDF Requests Independent Investigation into Shooting Death of Korryn Gaines

Leah Aden in Fusion: Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Are Part of History of Excluding People of Color from Political ...

Janai Nelson Discusses Voter Protection and the VRA at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Legislative Conference

Texas Court Order Helps Combat Misinformation Given to Voters

LDF Submits Recommendations for Policing Reform in Baltimore to the Justice Department and Baltimore Police Department

Leah Aden in Reuters: There’s A History of States Using Stategies to Cut Voting in Minority Communities

Janai Nelson in the Los Angeles Times: Felon Disfranchisement is a Stain on Our Democracy

Federal Guidelines on Police in Schools Welcome But Don’t Go Far Enough

Sherrilyn Ifill in The Washington Post on Voter ID Laws: Rationale Doesn’t Match Record

WATCH: Baltimore Town Hall on Policing Reforms

In Baltimore’s AFRO, Ajmel Quereshi Looks at Links Between the DOJ Policing Report and Questions of Transportation and ...

LDF to U.S. Census Bureau: Count Incarcerated Individuals as Community Residents on Census Day

LDF and Civil Rights Groups Urge Court to Find Cranston, Rhode Island Prison-based Gerrymandering Scheme Unconstitutional

LDF Urges California Governor to Sign Legislation Enabling More Than 50,000 People with Past Felony Convictions to Vote

LDF Joins the Election Protection Coalition in Open Letter to Political Parties Concerning Voter Intimidation

Sherrilyn Ifill in SCOTUSBlog: How Will the Confirmation of a 9th Justice Affect the Future of Diversity in ...

LDF Requests Additional Clarification from Baltimore County Police Department

Janai Nelson Discusses the History of Housing Discrimination on The Takeaway

LDF Files Objection to Gardendale’s Efforts to Stymie Desegregation

Janai Nelson in Christian Science Monitor: Voter Photo ID Laws Don’t Protect our Nation In Any Meaningful Way

Celebrate the Anniversary of the March on Washington By Continuing Its Work

Monique Lin-Luse in Washington Post: Different Choice in Gardendale, AL Can Increase School Integration

A Tribute to Clarence C. Finley, 1922-2016

LDF Stands Up for African-American Consumers

A Tribute to Harry Briggs Jr., One of the Children at the Center of Brown v. Board of ...

Yes Magazine Marks Progress Against Discriminatory Voter ID Laws

Baltimore Sun Editorial Echoes Questions Raised by LDF Over Korryn Gaines Shooting

Deuel Ross in NYT: Resurgent Local Voter Discrimination Impacts Lives of Minority Voters

LDF Asks Baltimore County Police Department Critical Questions About Shooting Death of Korryn Gaines

LDF: Texas Court Order Ensures Access to Ballot for Hundreds of Thousands, But More Work Remains

Scathing DOJ Report Exposes Harsh Reality of Discriminatory Policing in Baltimore

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Marks Second Anniversary of Policing-Shooting Death of Michael Brown and Current State of Affairs ...

The Washington Post Quotes Sherrilyn Ifill on the Fight Against Recent Voting Restrictions

Carlton Mayers Highlights LDF’s Work in Policing Reform in The Guardian

Deuel Ross Comments on Alabama Voter ID Law In Wake of Recent Court Decisions

Sherrilyn Ifill Examines Baltimore Policing Reform in the Aftermath of Freddie Gray’s In-Custody Death

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Marks the Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act as Threats to Equal Political ...

Lilly Zaragoza Weighs In on Recent Voter ID Court Decisions and Alabama

In Huffington Post, Monique Dixon Encouraged by Spotlight on School-to-Prison Pipeline

LDF Files Brief for Duane Buck Death Penalty Case Challenging Ineffective Counsel and Racial Bias

Sherrilyn Ifill Argues Brown v. Board of Education Legacy Also Extends to White Children

LDF Responds to Dropped Charges for Three Remaining Baltimore Police Officers in Freddie Gray Case

LDF to Receive $1 Million Gift from Michael Jordan for Policing Reform Work

LDF to Receive $1 Million Gift from Michael Jordan for Policing Reform Work

Advocates Call on Mayor and Police Commissioner to Remove Barriers to Police Accountability

LDF Applauds Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals En Banc Decision Finding Texas Voter ID Law Discriminatory

LDF Statement on the Acquittal of Lt. Brian Rice for His Role in the In-Custody Death of Freddie ...

LDF’s Statement on the Shootings of Law Enforcement Officers in Baton Rouge

LDF Remembers Eric Garner On Second Anniversary of His Death

Janai Nelson Discusses Police-Involved Killings on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Sherrilyn Ifill Attends White House Meeting with Police, Other Civil Rights Leaders

LDF Remembers Sandra Bland

Civil Rights Groups Sue Wayne County to End Racially Discriminatory Tax Foreclosures in Detroit

Sherrilyn Ifill Denounces Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Policing Reform

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Recent Police Involved Shootings with Brian Williams on MSNBC

LDF Remembers Civil Rights Pioneer and Former Client Dr. Sonnie Hereford, III

LDF Responds to Attack on Law Enforcement and National Tragedy in Dallas, Texas

Two Days, Two Deaths: The Back to Back Police Shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

LDF Disappointed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Proposed Residence Criteria for Incarcerated Persons for 2020 Census

LDF Responds to Tragic Shooting Death of Alton Sterling

Chris Kemmit Talks About the Utah v. Strieff SCOTUS Decision on WPFW emPower Hour

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Thurgood Marshall

Janai Nelson Discusses Low NYC Voter Turnout on All Things Considered with Jami Floyd

LDF Encourages Public Comment on Body-Worn Camera Pilot Program in Partnership with NYU’s Policing Project

LDF Statement on Department of Justice Announcement to Address Implicit Bias in Law Enforcement Training

Fisher II Media Roundup

LDF Statement on the Acquittal of Officer Caesar Goodson Regarding In-Custody Death of Freddie Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Reaffirms the Importance of Diversity in College Admissions

LDF Pushes for Urgent Action in Protecting Minority Voters on Three-Year Anniversary of Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder

Janai Nelson Joined a Discussion on the Influence of Big Money on the Electoral Process for Women and ...

LDF Remembers the Emanuel Nine One Year Later Amidst Orlando’s Tragic Aftermath

LDF Remembers the Emanuel Nine One Year Later Amidst Orlando’s Tragic Aftermath

LDF Statement on Tragic Mass Shooting in Orlando, Florida

Democracy Diminished: LDF Releases Report on State and Local Threats to Voting Rights Three Years After Landmark Shelby ...

LDF’s Statement on New U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Texas Death Penalty Case Challenging Racial Bias and Ineffective Lawyering

A Tribute to the Life of Muhammad Ali: World Champion Boxer, Outspoken and Courageous Advocate, Global Leader and ...

A Tribute to Cassandra Q. Butts, Former LDF Assistant Counsel

At LDF’s Urging, Florissant City Council Approves New Redistricting Plan

LDF Once Again Argues Case Against Texas Strict Voter Photo Id Law

Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein Writes on the Government Accountability Office Report on Segregation

LDF Responds to Acquittal of Officer Edward Nero for the In-Custody Death of Freddie Gray

LDF Statement on Supreme Court Decisions on Discrimination in the Workplace and in Juries

Statement of LDF and South Carolina Civil Rights Leaders on the Justice Department’s Plan to Evaluate the North ...

LDF Names Former Attorney General Eric Holder to National Board of Directors

LDF Urges Senate to Safeguard Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule

Muslim Advocates and LDF Letter to Dept of Transportation Urging Immediate Action to Prevent Profiling of Airline Passengers

Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein Writes On Housing Segregation and Racial Inequities

LDF’s History of Challenging Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection

LDF Releases Report on the Nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court

Angel Harris Writes on Jury Selection Racial Discrimination in Death Penalty Cases in the Huffington Post

LDF Statement on Announcement of Compromise Bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015

LDF and Other Civil Rights Advocates File Brief Urging Ninth Circuit to Defer to EEOC’s Guidance on Criminal ...

LDF Statement on North Carolina Forward Together/Moral Mondays Movement

LDF Statement on Launch of Inaugural National Reentry Week and Attorney General Lynch’s Reform Package to Improve the ...

New York Times Editorial Board Highlights LDF’s Post-Shelby “Tally” of Potentially Discriminatory Voting Changes

Janai Nelson Calls Felony Disfranchisement A Pressing Civil Right Issue in the New York Times

In The Post and Courier, Monique Dixon Voices Optimism and Concern in North Charleston Police Reform Initiative

Civil Rights Leaders Respond to North Charleston Officials’ Request to the Department of Justice for Help with Improving ...

Kevin Keenan Speaks with Statescoop about Police Body Cameras in Chicago

Angel Harris Observes One Year Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death on the Nick Taliaferro Show

The New Yorker Weighs In on Race in the Duane Buck Death Penalty Case

LDF Names Two Renowned Scholars as Senior Research Fellows of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute

LDF on Peter Liang’s Sentence of No Prison Time for the Killing of Akai Gurley

LDF Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death

LDF Provides Written Testimony on Ferguson Consent Decree in Advance of Court-Ordered Public Hearing

LDF Statement on Chicago’s Police Accountability Task Force Report

Monique Dixon Pens Letter in The Post and Courier on North Charleston Police Department

Janai Nelson Writes About the Evenwel v. Abbott Decision in Hamilton and Griffin on Rights

LDF Video Examines Extraordinary Case of Racial Bias in TX Death Penalty Case on Final Appeal to U.S. ...

The Los Angeles Times Joins the Call for New Trial in Duane Buck Death Penalty Case

Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Principle That Every Person Counts In Redistricting

Janai Nelson Speaks with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes About Recently Decided Evenwel v. Abbott SCOTUS Case

Janai Nelson Responds to SCOTUS Decision in Evenwel v. Abbott

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in Conversation on the Unequal Effects of Urban Freeways ...

LDF Statement on HUD Guidance Regarding the Application of the Fair Housing Act to the Use of Criminal ...

The New York Times Weighs In on the Duane Buck Death Penalty Case

LDF and South Carolina Leaders Remember the Police Shooting Death of Walter Scott One Year Later

Remembering the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wrongfully Convicted Former LDF Client, Richard Rosario, Finally Released From Prison After 20 Years

LDF Statement on the Brooklyn DA’s Sentencing Recommendation of No Jail Time for Peter Liang

Sherrilyn Ifill Speaks to Places Journal about Baltimore’s Cancelled Red Line

LDF Turns 76, Continuing More Than Seven Decades of Civil Rights Work

CNN Highlights Sherrilyn Ifill’s Reaction to President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee

LDF’s Statement on the Approval of the Ferguson Consent Decree

LDF Statement on the Nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the United States Supreme Court

Janai Nelson Speaks with Election Law Blog’s Rick Hasen About Minority Voting Rights in 2016

LDF Statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Decision Not to Convene a Grand Jury for the Police ...

Deuel Ross Quoted in Vice on Alabama Voting Laws

Bipartisan Brief Filed in Support of Texas Death-Sentenced Prisoner, Duane Buck

Sherrilyn Ifill Quoted in New Yorker About White House Civil Rights Gathering

LDF and Community and Civil Rights Organizations to Host Town Hall Meeting Addressing Discriminatory Policing Practices in North ...

Leah Aden Weighs In on Felon Disfranchisement in Florida

LDF Commemorates the 51st Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”

LDF to Participate in Selma, Alabama Bridge Crossing Jubilee Commemorating “Bloody Sunday”

LDF Calls for a Thorough and Transparent Investigation of the Baltimore School Police Officer Caught on Tape Assaulting ...

Sherrilyn Ifill is a Presenter at BET’s Leading Women Defined Summit on March 1-4 in Bal Harbour, Florida

LDF Urges Senate Judiciary Committee to Swiftly Carry Out its Constitutional Duty By Holding Supreme Court Nominee Hearings

LDF Supports the Confirmation of Dr. John King as Secretary of Education and Urges Timely Action to Help ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed in The Root on the Late Justice Antonin Scalia and the Supreme Court

Black History Month 2016: “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

Black History Month 2016: “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

Janai Nelson Talks About the Akai Gurley Case on The Nick Taliaferro Show

Sherrilyn Ifill Speaks at Session in Presidential Candidate Briefings

In the New York Times, Sherrilyn Ifill is Quoted in a Conversation on Potential Supreme Court Nominees

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins the Conversation on the Supreme Court in Light of the Sudden Death of Justice Antonin ...

LDF Urges Congress to Make Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform a Legislative Priority Early This Year

LDF’s Statement on the Passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

LDF Statement on the Liang Trial Verdict and the Need to Change the Culture of Policing

LDF Applauds Nomination of Judge Abdul Kallon to Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

Black History Month 2016: “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

LDF Applauds U.S. Justice Department’s Lawsuit Against Ferguson After City Rejects Proposed Consent Decree

After Ferguson Attempts to Unilaterally Modify its Consent Decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, LDF Advocates Taking ...

As President Obama Releases Last Budget of His Presidency, LDF Praises His Focus on Equity in Education

LDF Urges Speedy Approval of Proposed Police & Municipal Court Reform Agreement in Ferguson

Arguing Against Use of Religious Beliefs to Justify Discrimination in Public Accommodations, LDF Files Brief in Support of ...

Black History Month 2016: “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

LDF Calls on U.S. Justice Department to Launch, Complete, or Expand Civil Rights Investigations of Two Police Departments ...

Janai Nelson Among Chorus of Voices with President Obama Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Alabama Public Radio Talks with Janai Nelson on the Ramifications of the Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision One ...

Janai Nelson Debates Federal Government Intervention in Ferguson on NBC News

NPR Hosts a Conversation with Janai Nelson on New Voting Laws

Janai Nelson Weighs In on the latest Supreme Court Arguments in Race and College Admissions

For Black History Month 2016, LDF Launches a Weekly Exploration of “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & ...

In Savoy, Sherrilyn Ifill Highlights LDF’s Work in Diversity and Democracy

Sherrilyn Ifill Weighs In on Policing Tactics on BET

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks on Residential Segregation at the 2015 National Fair Housing Conference

LDF Files “Friend-of-the-Court” Brief to Uphold Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) Program

LDF Reviews Proposed Settlement Between Ferguson and U.S. Department of Justice

James Cole, Jr., Former Board Member of LDF, to Become U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, Leading My Brother’s ...

Natasha Merle Joins LDF as LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

LDF Applauds Supreme Court’s Montgomery v. Louisiana Decision to Apply Ban on Juvenile Life Sentences Retroactively, Affecting Thousands ...

LDF Urges Systemic Reforms to Eliminate Police Sexual Misconduct Following Sentencing of Daniel Holtzclaw, Former Oklahoma Police Officer

LDF Statement on Thomas v. School Board of St. Martin Parish

Black Voters in Fayette County, Georgia Win Historic Opportunity to Elect Candidates of Choice and Settle Voting Rights ...

LDF Urges Maryland Legislature To Override Governor Hogan’s Veto and Restore Voting Rights to People with Felony Convictions

LDF Supports New York State Court Decision in Gifford v. McCarthy Re-Affirming Ban on Discrimination in Public Accommodations

Janai Nelson Joins Roundtable Discussion at the WNYC & The Apollo Theater MLK Event “Race and Privilege: Exploring ...

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, LDF Recalls Dr. King’s Courage and Sacrifice in the Fight for Equality

Time Quotes Sherrilyn Ifill on President Obama’s State of the Union Speech

On the Eve of President Obama’s Last State of the Union Address, LDF Celebrates Civil Rights Successes, But ...

LDF Celebrates the 55th Anniversary of the Landmark Desegregation of the University of Georgia

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Ramifications of the Baltimore Red Line Cancellation on the Marc Steiner Show

Janel George Opinion for Education Week “ESSA Offers Opportunity to Combat School Pushout”

Following Perjury Indictment of State Trooper Involved in Traffic Stop and Arrest of Sandra Bland, LDF Renews Call ...

LDF Client Charlayne Hunter-Gault Desegregated the University of Georgia

Sherrilyn Ifill Pays Tribute to the Late Civil Rights Icon Amelia Boynton Robinson

Janai Nelson Talks on Latest Developments in Fatal Police Shootings On Andrea Mitchell Reports

LDF Statement on the Non-Indictment of Cleveland Police Officers in the Shooting Death of Tamir Rice

Janai Nelson Discusses Non-Indictments in Sandra Bland Death on Andrea Mitchell Reports

LDF Year in Review: 2015

LDF Statement on President Barack Obama Issuing 95 Commutations, Two Pardons

Baltimore Residents and Civic Groups File Title VI Complaint with United States Department of Transportation over Maryland’s Discriminatory ...

Rachel Kleinman Talks with Salon on the Affirmative Action Case before the Supreme Court for a Second Time

LDF Statement on Mistrial in Case against William Porter for the In-Custody Death of Freddie Gray

Leslie Proll Reacts to Rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Law

Janai Nelson on the recent Evenwel Supreme Court Case: Who Will Count in Our Democracy?

On All In with Chris Hayes, Sherrilyn Ifill Looks to Baltimore’s Future in the Aftermath of Freddie Gray’s ...

LDF Takes on Controversial Comments at Fisher Oral Argument

LDF Condemns Increasing Xenophobic Rhetoric

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Strong Argument Today that Race Should Continue to Be Considered in College Admissions

Leah Aden Gives Context to Redistricting and Political Representation

LDF Statement on Senate Passage of Every Student Succeeds Act

Iowa’s Felon Disfranchisement Law is One of the Worst in Nation, Time to Change, says LDF in Amicus ...

Sherrilyn Ifill on Panel Discussion on the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case Today That Threatens to Fundamentally Alter Legislative Representation

LDF Statement on Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Probe of the Chicago Police Department

LDF Attorneys Write on Affirmative Action Case (Fisher II) Before Supreme Court this Week

Janai Nelson Joins Discussion of Affirmative Action Case before Supreme Court on Melissa Harris-Perry

LDF Hosts a Cocktail Reception and Conversation Featuring Wil Haygood’s SHOWDOWN

Deuel Ross Joins Discussion of Lawsuit Filed Against Alabama Voter ID Law on NewOne Now

LDF Statement on the Every Student Succeeds Act

Janel George Discusses the Future of No Child Left Behind on “To The Point”

Civil Rights Organizations File Brief Urging Appellate Court to Protect Students from Predatory For-Profit Colleges

Janai Nelson Talks with Andrea Mitchell on the Dashcam Video Released in the Laquan McDonald Shooting

LDF Statement on the Laquan McDonald Case and Minneapolis Shootings

LDF Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks on the Sixtieth Anniversary of Her Courageous Stand Against Segregation

Civil Rights Organizations File Brief in Support of African-American Homebuyers Harmed by Morgan Stanley’s Predatory Lending Practices

LDF Statement One Year After the Death of Tamir Rice

LDF’s Senate Testimony Details Department of Justice Role in Ensuring Police Officers Comply with Civil Rights Laws

Boggs Media, LLC Teams Up with LDF and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance

LDF Welcomes Carlton T. Mayers II as Policy Counsel for Policing Reform

A Tribute to Jacqueline A. Berrien Former LDF Associate Director-Counsel and Civil Rights Champion

Monique Dixon Pens Op-Ed on Need for Greater Scrutiny on Use of Force in School Discipline

LDF Pushes for Water Access and Affordability in Michigan Legislature

LDF Deeply Mourns the Passing of Former Associate Director-Counsel and Former EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien

Janai Nelson Discusses Tamir Rice Shooting on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

LDF Celebrates 75 Years of Visionary Civil Rights Leadership at Annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner

Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in Society at NYU Law

Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in Society at NYU Law

LDF Joins Outpouring of Support for Diversity in Higher Education in Supreme Court Briefs in Fisher v. University ...

LDF Statement on President Obama’s Actions to Promote Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Persons with Criminal Records

LDF Relaunches “Prepared to Vote” Election Day Voter Education Initiative in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas 

LDF Asks President Obama to “Ban the Box”

Janel George Weighs In on Policing and School Discipline

LDF Statement on the Video of Police Officer Assaulting Student in South Carolina Classroom

What is the price of voter suppression? “Voter ID foes stress legal cost in new tactic” in report ...

LDF Congratulates Kristen Clarke, Named as New President and Executive Director of National Lawyers’ Committee

LDF Statement on Bipartisan Sentencing Reform Bill

LDF Weighs in on Bipartisan Sentencing Reform Bill

Stories of Triumph and Commitment to Civil Rights Distinguish the 32 Scholars Selected by LDF

LDF Statement on the Passing of Judge Ralph Gingles, Jr., Plaintiff in Seminal Voting Rights Case

LDF Hosts North Charleston Town Hall Meeting on Policing

Some Seek Agreement before Fayette Voting Dispute Heads to Court

Reauthorization of ESEA Must Include Federal Oversight and Accountability, says LDF

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Race and Policing, Freddie Gray and More on Maryland Public Television

LDF Participates in Renaming of Federal Courthouse to Honor Federal Judge as Civil Rights Hero

LDF Participates in Renaming of Federal Courthouse to Honor Federal Judge as Civil Rights Hero

One Day a Month is Not Enough, Says LDF

LDF Statement on Bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act

Sherrilyn Ifill Joins a Discussion on Housing Discrimination, Segregation and Poverty on the Diane Rehm Show

LDF Urges Supreme Court to Reaffirm that All People Deserve to Be Counted for Purposes of Political Representation

LDF Hosts 75th Anniversary Alumni Reunion at the Ford Foundation

LDF’s Win to Enjoin At-Large Voting in Fayette County Proves That District-Based Voting is a Fair Electoral Method

Victorien Wu Pens Blog on Fulfilling the Promise of Equal Political Citizenship for Black Voters in Terrebonne

Our Lives, Votes, Jobs and Schools Are At Stake, Says LDF

LDF Mourns Passing of Legendary Civil Rights Attorney Solomon Seay Jr.

JP Schnapper-Casteras Calls on Supreme Court to Reaffirm Diversity in Higher Education

AJC Profiles “What’s at Stake in Fayette Voting Rights Fight”

LDF Welcomes Samantha Erskine as Senior Director of Development

LDF Statement on the Passing of Model Social Justice Advocate Lynn Walker Huntley

MSNBC reports on LDF’s fight for voting rights in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

LDF and Dignity in Schools Fight the School to Prison Pipeline in Virginia

LDF Appoints Coty Montag as Deputy Director of Litigation

LDF Mourns the Passing of Amelia Boynton Robinson, Iconic Civil Rights Leader

LDF Statement Commemorating Victims of Hurricane Katrina

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Supports Dismissal of Charges against Ferguson Protesters

LDF Statement on the Passing of Iconic Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond

McKinney Independent School District Responds to Call for Training School Police

Colorado Appeals Court Rules for Same-Sex Couple Denied Wedding Cake

Janai Nelson Talks Policing Reform Past and Present on ‘To the Point’

In This 50th VRA Anniversary Year, LDF Attorney Leah Aden Discusses Felon Disfranchisement — The Next Civil Rights ...

LDF Attorney Leah Aden Contributes to ‘Interventions on the 50th Anniversaries of Events in the American Civil Rights ...

School Police in McKinney, Texas, Arrest and Ticket African-American Students at Excessive and Unequal Rates

LDF Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of the Police-Shooting Death of Michael Brown and the State of Policing ...

LDF Client Imani Clark Talks on Her Experience with Voting Laws As We Mark the VRA 50th Anniversary

LDF Statement on the Voting Rights Act at 50

LDF Celebrates the Voting Rights Act at the White House

Janai Nelson Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the VRA and the Anniversary of Mike Brown’s Death

As 50th Anniversary of VRA Nears, LDF Attorney Natasha Korgaonkar Explains Connection Between Voter Suppression and Sandra Bland’s ...

V. Renée Cutting Joins LDF as Chief Development Officer

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Univ. of Cincinnati Police Officer Raymond Tensing Indictment in Death of Samuel Dubose

Monique Dixon Weighs In on the Arrest and Detainment of Sandra Bland

LDF & Smithsonian National Museum of American History Commemorate Historic 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

LDF and ABA Joint Call for Renewed Dedication to Ending Racial Bias In Criminal Justice System

Janai Nelson Discusses Disparate Impact at the ACS 2015 National Convention

LDF Calls for a Full Investigation of the Police In-Custody Death of Sandra Bland

Leah Aden Responds to Continuing At-Large Voting Battle in Fayette County, Georgia

LDF Statement Marking One Year Anniversary of the Police-Involved Chokehold Death of Eric Garner

Leslie Proll Weighs In on Senate No Child Left Behind Rewrite Vote

ABA-LDF Joint Statement on Eliminating Bias in the Criminal Justice System

African-American Business Leaders Contribute $1 Million to LDF’s Policing Reform Campaign

Every Child Achieves Act Falls Short of Civil Rights Commitment of Original ESEA

LDF and South Carolina Leaders Ask U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Open Federal Investigations in the Aftermath ...

LDF Congratulates Families and Advocates for the Designation of Special Prosecutor by Governor Cuomo

LDF Joins with Coalition Urging Accountability to End School Pushout

LDF, Nearly 100 Advocacy Organizations Call for End of Harassment & Bullying of LGBTQ Students

LDF Applauds New Fair Housing Rule As Powerful Tool to Promote Opportunity

Thurgood Marshall’s Stirring Acceptance Speech After Receiving the Prestigious Liberty Award on July 4, 1992

LDF Welcome New Lawyers to Our New York and Washington D.C. Offices

Governor Cuomo Executive Order Designating Eric Schneiderman as Special Prosecutor Is A Step in the Right Direction

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on Drug Lethal Injection

LDF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision Upholding Marriage Equality for All

Sherrilyn Ifill Lauds Supreme Court Decision in Disparate Impact Case

Sherrilyn Ifill Hails Decision in Fair Housing Act Case

LDF Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision in King v. Burwell

LDF Praises U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold Disparate Impact Protections of the Fair Housing Act

On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Sherrilyn Ifill Talks on the Aftermath of the Emanuel A.M.E Church ...

Janai Nelson Discusses the Confederate Flag Issue Surrounding the S.C. Church Massacre

LDF Statement in Support of Voting Rights Advancement Act

CNN Quotes Sherrilyn Ifill on Pending Fair Housing Act Supreme Court Decision

LDF Statement on Governor Haley’s Call to Remove the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina State Capitol

Janai Nelson Joins Discussion on S.C. Church Shootings on The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell

The Boston Globe Taps JP Schnapper for Perspective on Disparate Impact Case

Columbia Law School Graduate Liliana Zaragoza Joins NAACP Legal Defense Fund as Inaugural John Payton Appellate and Supreme ...

Janai Nelson Discusses SCOTUS Pending Fair Housing Act Decision

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks “Warning Signs in Atmosphere of Hate” on Face the Nation

LDF Statement on Charleston Shooting at Emanuel A.M.E. Church

Sherrilyn Ifill Reacts to Texas Pool Party Police Encounter

LDF Statement on Indictment of Former South Carolina Officer Michael T. Slager

Natasha Korgaonkar Emphasizes the Importance of the National Debate on Voting Rights

Janel George Weighs In on Federal Law in School Discipline at Capitol Hill Roundtable

In Rolling Stone, Janel George Comments on New Military Equipment Rules in School Policing

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks on Suits to Roll Back Voting Restriction Laws

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Commencement Address at Bard College

LDF Revamps Law Student Scholarship Program with Grant Boost

Janai Nelson Gives Keynote Address at the International Social Movements Gathering on Water and Affordable Housing in Detroit

LDF Statement on United States Supreme Court Ruling in Abercrombie & Fitch Discrimination Case

LDF Statement on Agreement Reached by Justice Department and City of Cleveland to Reform Cleveland Division of Police

LDF Submits Statement to the United States House Judiciary Committee Hearing on “Policing Strategies for the 21st Century”

LDF Statement on Indictment of All Six Police Officers Involved in Death of Freddie Gray

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers New York University’s 183rd Commencement Speech

African American Business Executives Join LDF to Enact Police Reforms, Strengthen Accountability

LDF Statement on President’s Plan to Improve Relations between Police and Communities of Color

Monique Lin-Luse Discusses the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the ESEA

In Ebony, Janel George Discusses Continuing Efforts to Fulfill Brown v. Board of Education Promise

NAACP-LDF: New $30,000 Racial Justice Scholarship for Law Students and Revamped Scholarship for Undergraduates

LDF Statement on the 61st Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

JP Schnapper-Casteras Hears Echoes of the 1967 Interracial Marriage Case in On-going Marriage Equality Debate

Sherrilyn Ifill Urges Congress to Keep Brown’s Promise and Ensure Equal Educational Opportunity in ESEA

Janai Nelson Joins Melissa Harris-Perry in a Discussion on How Housing Policies Influence Baltimore Segregation

LDF Statement on Department of Justice’s Announcement of Federal Probe of Baltimore Police Department

Natasha Korgaonkar Makes Case Against Texas Voter ID Law in Letter to Houston Chronicle

Sherrilyn Ifill Among Panelists Discussing Law Enforcement and Communities of Color at W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s America Healing Conference

Sherrilyn Ifill Among Experts Advancing Solutions for Healing Relationships Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color at America ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Connects Marriage Equality with the Baltimore Unrest in an ACS Blog Commentary

In Roll Call, Leslie Proll Challenges Senate Judiciary Committee Chair’s Views on Voting Rights Act

Monique Dixon Weighs In on Arrests of Legal Observers in Baltimore

Janai Nelson Discusses Recent Developments in Baltimore and Police Reform on Huffington Post

Sherrilyn Ifill Puts Forward Federal Government’s Role in Policing Reform

In The Hill, Leslie Proll Urges Obama Administration to Do More on Policing

LDF Statement on Homicide Charges Against Baltimore Police Officers in In-custody Death of Freddie Gray

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Solutions for Baltimore on Face the Nation

Sherrilyn Ifill Talks with Charlie Rose on Baltimore Unrest

Sherrilyn Ifill Responds to Charges Against Baltimore Police Officers in Death of Freddie Gray

Natasha Korgaonkar Quoted on TX Voter Photo ID Case

Natasha Korgaonkar Gives Updates on the Texas Voter Photo ID Case on Houston’s Morning News

Sherrilyn Ifill Spars with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Baltimore and Policing

Media Highlights on Death of Freddie Gray While in the Custody of Baltimore Police

Sherrilyn Ifill: A National Crisis Needs National Response

LDF Calls for Immediate Redress in the Death of Freddie Gray to End Outrage in Baltimore

LDF Defends Trial Court Win Against Texas’s Intentionally Discriminatory Voter ID Law

Ifill Lauds the Service of Attorney General Eric Holder

CNN Interviews Monique Dixon on LDF’s Call for Body Worn Cameras on Police

LDF Celebrates Historic Confirmation of Loretta Lynch as 83rd Attorney General of the United States

Sherrilyn Ifill Voices Concern on Lack of Information in Freddie Gray’s Death during Police Custody

Leslie Proll Quoted on Judicial Vacancies in Alabama Courts

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Department of Justice’s Decision to Investigate the Death of Freddie Gray

ESEA Passes Senate Education Committee: LDF Urges Strong Accountability to Close Achievement Gaps

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Joins the Call for Answers in the Death of Freddie Gray ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Urges Maryland Governor Sign Felon Enfranchisement Bill

US Attorney General Eric Holder and Senator Patrick Leahy Hail LDF’s Past and Future

LDF Submits Letter to St. Louis Municipalities Addressing Lack of African-American Representation on City Councils

Janai Nelson Outlines Solutions to Police Reform in Ferguson at Open Society Foundations Convening

Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele Among Voices Urging Recording of Police

Sherrilyn Ifill Tweet Focuses on the Power of Social Media in Today’s Civil Rights Climate

Leah Aden Writes How At-Large Voting Discriminates in Fayette County, Georgia

In Commemoration of Its 50th Anniversary, LDF Urges Congress to Reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Sherrilyn Ifill Says Change is Coming to Ferguson in CNN Op-Ed

Leah Aden Responds to Early Voting Win in Georgia

Murder Charges Against South Carolina Patrolman Leads Legal Defense Fund to Renew Call to End Epidemic of Police ...

On Andrea Mitchell Reports, Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Shooting by Police of Unarmed Black Man in South Carolina

Janai Nelson Pens ‘Hamilton and Griffin on Rights’ Blog Post on State of VRA Section 5

The National Bar Association Holds a Discussion on Ferguson with Janel George as Panelist

JP Schnapper Makes Case for Marriage Equality in the Richmond Times Dispatch

Janai Nelson Panelist at National Archives McGowan Forum on Women in Civil Rights Leadership

Monique Dixon Discusses the DOJ Ferguson Report on The Global African

It’s Time. #ConfirmLynch

LDF Supports Bi-Partisan Voices to Implement Police Body Worn Cameras

Police Body Cameras

JP Schnapper-Casteras Praises Supreme Court Decision in Alabama Redistricting Case

LDF Welcomes Supreme Court’s Decision Returning Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Redistricting Plan to Lower Court for Scrutiny

In NYT Article, Ifill Highlights Dark Symbolism of the Confederate Flag

LDF Statement on Resignation of Barbara Arnwine as President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil ...

In 50th Anniversary Year of Historic Voting Rights Act, LDF Urges Congress to Pass Federal Legislation to Restore ...

New York’s Anti-Defamation League Features Janai Nelson as Panelist at 21st Annual Edward Brodsky Legal Conference

Sherrilyn Ifill Weighs in on NC Senators’ Stance on Loretta Lynch’s AG Nomination

Sherrilyn Ifill Remarks on Loretta Lynch’s Attorney General Vote Delay

Janel George is Quoted in Education News on Black Students and Suspension Rates

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Issues of Race on Face the Nation

Leading the Future of Civil Rights, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Turns 75

Still at the Forefront of Civil Rights, 75 Years Later: LDF Turns 75

LDF Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

LDF Media Highlights from Selma 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Sherrilyn Ifill Quoted in the New York Times on the Voting Right Act Amendment

LDF Hosts Unity Reception at Brown AME Chapel in Selma on Eve of 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

Leah Aden Speaks on the Continuing Fight for the Heart of the Voting Rights Act

Nelson Op-Ed Commemorates Selma 50th Anniversary And New Path for the Future

Deuel Ross Details Voting Difficulty in Alabama

Selma to Montgomery March Profiles of LDF Co-counsel Charles Stephen Ralston, Fred D. Gray and Solomon Seay, Jr.

Janai Nelson Quoted on Ferguson Police Department on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

LDF Unveils Historic Legal Document that Set the March from Selma to Montgomery in Motion, Leading to the ...

LDF Calls For Wholesale Reforms in Light of DOJ’s Findings of Pattern of Police Bias and Excessive Force ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Justice Department’s Criminal Justice Reforms Recommendations on The Take Away

LDF’s Statement on Proposed Recommendations from the Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing

LDF Remembers Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

Sherrilyn Ifill Cited in Recap of the United Nations VRA Anniversary Event

Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers Keynote Address at Columbia Law School’s Annual Paul Robeson Conference

LDF Applauds Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Vote to Send Nomination of Loretta Lynch for Attorney General to the ...

Janel George Weighs In on Missouri Having Highest Suspension Rate in the U.S. for Black Elementary Students

LDF Laments Justice Department Decision Not to Bring Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin Death

Proll and Voting Advocates Hail VRA Message at the Academy Awards Ceremony

Janai Nelson Delivers Keynote at King County Bar Association Annual MLK Luncheon