A medical school yearbook page belonging to Virginia Governor Ralph Northam surfaced today showing a photograph of two men, one in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood. Janai Nelson, Associate ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) welcomes U.S. District Judge Robert Dow’s approval of the consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department. Judge Dow’s order today follows a public comment period ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony in support of SB 96, which is pending before the Maryland legislature and would permanently repeal the authority of the Mayor and the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a response to Waller County’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that LDF brought on behalf of five Prairie A&M University (PVAMU) students who are demanding ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), testified before the House Judiciary Committee today about H.R.1, the For the People Act, a comprehensive package of democracy reforms, ...
This MLK weekend in Hartford, Connecticut local and national education advocates hosted the 30th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sheff v. O’Neill. The Sheff decision is a landmark school desegregation case that continues ...
Ahead of today’s court status hearing in the case involving the policing reform agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted ...
