Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (DNC), the lead in consolidated cases before the United States Supreme Court. The case concerns ...
Today, President Biden issued an Executive Order, revoking the Trump administration’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” (“EO 13950”), issued in September 2020. The now-revoked order took aim at federal agencies, U.S. military ...
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the inauguration of the Biden-Harris administration: “Today, we witnessed the completion of a most ...
In the aftermath of the January 6 deadly attack on Congress by far right extremists, including white nationalists, 135 civil and human rights organizations led by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), submitted written testimony to the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in support of Senate Bill (SB) 178, which would amend the Maryland Public Information Act ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) launched the groundbreaking Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP), an innovative educational and training opportunity that will produce the next generation of civil rights attorneys to serve ...
Last week, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) terminated Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Myles Cosgrove, two of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. In response, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational ...
