Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission

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: Criminal Justice Policy Is Education Policy

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 ...

Sessions’ SJQ “Woefully Inadequate”: Groups Call for Delay in Hearing Schedule

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 ...

LDF to Michigan Senators: Reject Voter Disfranchisement

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 ...

LDF on Announcement of Andy Puzder for Labor Department

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 ...

Joint Statement of Civil Rights and Clergy Leaders Concerning Mistrial of Former Officer Michael Slager

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 ...

LDF on Carson for HUD: Little to Indicate Housing Experience, Expertise

Read the PDF of our statement here. On December 5, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and former Presidential candidate, will be his nominee for Secretary of Housing and Urban ...

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