Today, LDF led 21 other civil rights and education organizations in releasing a joint statement concerning equitable education during the COVID-19 pandemic school closures and beyond. The statement provides promising practices and recommendations to school administrators, ...
It’s Time to for the Federal Government to Get Serious About Addressing COVID-19 April 24, 2020 America’s ability to limit the death and economic destruction caused by COVID-19 depends on dramatically ramping up testing for ...
Rev. Al Sharpton (NAN), Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson (CNBC), Sherrilyn Ifill (NAACP LDF), Marc Morial (NUL), Derrick Johnson (NAACP), Melanie Campbell (BWR), Kristen Clarke (Lawyers’ Committee) & the Heads of the Nation’s Nine Largest ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit today over South Carolina’s failure to take action to ensure all eligible voters can ...
Frazier v. Kelley:LDF Files Complaint against Arkansas Officials Allowing COVID-19 to Decimate Prisons The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), ACLU of Arkansas, Disability Rights Arkansas, and law firm Squire Patton Boggs filed ...
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in Ramos v. Louisiana, establishing that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a unanimous jury verdict applies to the states through the due process ...
Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and over 100 other organizations in a letter to Congress outlining key health and economic security priorities for lawmakers to ...
