LDF Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board

Read a PDF of our statement here.  NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Continues Leading Charge to Remove Paladino from Buffalo School Board In the latest chapter in its effort to remove Carl Paladino from ...

LDF Marks Anniversary of Batson Decision, Reaffirms Importance of Impartial Jury Selection

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, a landmark ruling that declared the exclusion of jurors on the basis of race to be a violation of the Fourteenth ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis Statement on Preliminary Injunction to End Wealth-Based Bail for People Charged with Misdemeanors in Harris County

Today, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a preliminary injunction to immediately halt Harris County’s practice of jailing people charged with misdemeanors solely because they are unable to pay bail.  ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Directive to Keep White Students Together in Florida Elementary School

Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Responds to Directive to Keep White Students Together in Florida Elementary School On April 18, 2017, Christine Hoffman, the Principal of Campbell Park Elementary School ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule

Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Arkansas’s Extreme Execution Schedule The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) condemns the state of Arkansas’ execution of Ledell Lee, Jack ...

LDF Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges House Judiciary Committee to Oppose the Proposed Thin Blue Line Bill The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter today to the House Judiciary Committee urging ...

LDF Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Calling for Local Control of K-12 Schools

Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the White House issued an executive order directing U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to conduct a study on the federal government’s role in K-12 education and ...

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