On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order giving consideration for a conditional pardon to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who are on parole. Leah Aden, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and ...
By: Noel King Source: NPR NPR’s Noel King talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who is among the experts advising Starbucks on their new ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed an amended complaint in the ongoing lawsuit originally filed on behalf of the NAACP, the nation’s premier grassroots civil rights organization, against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for ...
By: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Source: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., gives a ...
Starbucks Coffee Company announced today that it is closing all of its stores on May 29 to conduct training designed to prevent discrimination and address racial bias. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...
By: Todd A. Cox Source: CNN The US Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed moment in the fight for racial justice. The ruling not only banned segregation in ...
By: MP McQueen Source: The National Law Journal A week after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act, now 50 years old, outlawed ...
