Lawyers Behind Challenge to NYPD’s Use of Stop-and-Frisk Pen Op-Ed in New York Times About Need to Implement Community Reforms

By: Angel Harris, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Darius Charney Source: New York Times   Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York   Most people think we won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a ...

Civil Rights Groups Call for Congressional Action on Fatal Police Shootings

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Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign   The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF), The American Civil Liberties Union, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights called on Congress today to take ...

Sumter County, SC’s Proposed School Closures and Electoral Changes Are Potentially Harmful to Black Communities

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Despite fierce and overwhelming public opposition, the Sumter County School District in South Carolina is finalizing plans to close rural schools, attended by predominately Black students, in an attempt to address the School District’s unexplained ...

LDF Files Supreme Court Petition in Major Employment Discrimination Case Targeting Natural Black Hairstyles

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously ruled that an employer rescinding a job offer to a qualified Black woman solely because she wore her hair in dreadlocks (“locs”) does not violate federal civil rights ...

LDF Statement on NYPD Shooting of Saheed Vassell

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Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign   New York City police officers shot Saheed Vassell yesterday afternoon, firing 10 shots at the unarmed, bi-polar 34-year-old after officers claimed he had a gun. Sherrilyn Ifill, President ...

Job Applicants Enter Settlement with Target Corporation over Discriminatory Criminal Background Screening Policy

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP have reached a settlement with Target Corporation to resolve allegations that its overly broad and outdated criminal background check policy discriminated ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Pens Op-Ed for CNN: King’s Place in History is Still Unfolding

By: Sherrilyn Ifill Source: CNN   A decade before his shocking assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on behalf of the Montgomery Improvement Association, sent a thoughtful letter and a $1,000 check to Thurgood Marshall, then director-counsel ...

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