Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Powerful Talk at 2017 MAKERS Conference

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill gave a powerful talk on the Main Stage at the 2017 MAKERS Conference, touching upon topics including diversity, voter suppression, the spate of the police-involved death of unarmed African ...

President Trump’s Executive Orders on Crime Reduction Ignores the Need for Policing Reforms

Read the PDF of our statement here.  President Trump’s Executive Orders on Crime Reduction Ignores the Need for Policing Reforms Today, President Trump signed three executive orders detailing ways in which the White House will ...

Attorney General Sessions Must Adhere to Promises, Be Accountable to the People

Read the PDF of our statement here. Attorney General Sessions Must Adhere to Promises, Be Accountable to the People Statement of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General ...

Joint Statement of Black Women Leaders on Senator Mitch McConnell’s Attempts to Silence Words of Mrs. Coretta Scott King

Read the PDF of our statement here The undersigned are prominent African-American women leaders and we write to express our outrage at the actions taken last night by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the ...

Confirmation of DeVos Shameful Dereliction of Duty

Read the PDF of our statement here Confirmation of DeVos Shameful Dereliction of Duty Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. on Confirmation of Betsy DeVos On news that the Senate confirmed the ...

ABA Task Force Report Comes at Critical Time for Criminal Justice Reform

Read the PDF of our statement here Release of ABA Building Public Trust Task Force Report Comes at Critical Time for Criminal Justice Reform Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Today, the ...

Educational Accountability Regulations Cannot Be Overturned

Read the PDF of our statement here Today, Republican leaders of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce introduced resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulations on accountability and ...

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