Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a report evaluating the record of United States Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in keeping with our longstanding tradition of outlining the background, judicial ...
Today, Janai S. Nelson began her tenure as the eighth President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), following Sherrilyn Ifill in the first-ever woman-to-woman leadership transition in the organization’s 82-year ...
As states across the country engage in the greatest assault on voting rights since Jim Crow, New York has an opportunity in 2022 to set a new standard for protecting the freedom to vote and ...
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ewiley@naacpldf.org NEW ORLEANS — The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Louisiana, Cozen O’Connor, Ron Wilson, and John Adock ...
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland announced that NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) Senior Counsel Ajmel Quereshi has been appointed as a magistrate judge. A member of the ...
Last night, the United States Senate unanimously passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, completing a more than 100-year-long, multi-generational campaign to enlist the significant powers of the federal government against a distinctly American form of ...
Leading civil rights organizations issued the following joint statement to reflect on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday and to urge Congress to remain focused on protecting the fundamental right to vote for the American people: ...
