From the moment he began assembling his administration, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the worst fears of the 75 percent of the electorate who did not vote for him. He has eschewed a team of ...
Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Appointments to United States Commission on Civil Rights: We commend President Obama’s appointment of two extremely accomplished ...
Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein co-authored a report for the Economic Policy Institute examining the effects of parental incarceration on children’s performance in school. The report discusses the impacts the discriminatory incarceration of African ...
Read the PDF of our joint statement here. Washington, DC, December 14 – The Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ) submitted by Sen. Jeff Sessions as a prerequisite for his confirmation hearing to become U.S. Attorney General lacks hundreds of entries ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. sent a letter to Michigan state senators urging them to oppose a package of bills that stands to disfranchise thousands of eligible voters and disproportionately burden qualified ...
Read the PDF of our statement here Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Announcement of Andy Puzder for Labor Department “Economic opportunity is vital to the continued health of our democracy. The ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, Judge Clifton Newman declared a mistrial in the murder case of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, during ...
