Harvard student and alumni organizations, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), are fighting back against an attempt to exclude their voices from being heard by the court considering a lawsuit ...
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Six prominent African-American civil rights leaders sent a letter today to Senate leaders to express their concern that the Senate is not meeting its responsibility to fully and impartially evaluate the fitness ...
Today a grand jury indicted former Baltimore police officer Arthur Williams on three charges: first-degree assault, second-degree assault and officer misconduct after disturbing video surfaced on social media over the weekend showing Williams violently beating ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of Sheila Y. Thomas, who was a member of LDF’s inaugural class of Skadden Fellows. An accomplished attorney who litigated countless employment discrimination ...
By: MSNBC Source: MSNBC with David Gura LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson joins David Gura on MSNBC to discuss the one-year Anniversary of #Charlottesville and the #UniteTheRight2 rallies this weekend.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced today that the Committee will be holding a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh beginning on September 4. This announcement was made despite the fact that ...
Last August, white supremacist violence erupted at the “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, Virginia, taking the life of counter-protester Heather Heyer and leaving many others wounded. One year later, white supremacists are again gathering, ...
