The NAACP Legal Defense Fund hosted its 30th annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner, The Power of Now, on Wednesday, November 2nd at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. The dinner was held the ...
Today, the ACLU of South Carolina, the North Charleston Branch of the NAACP, the Community Resource Center, Charleston Area Justice Ministry, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. release the following statement: Over ...
Good afternoon, my name is Carmen Dixon, I am a Community Organizer at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for its Policing Reform Campaign. In early 2015, LDF along with Legal Aid Society settled ...
In a letter detailing the intimidation experienced by one of LDF’s own attorneys, who was engaged in non-partisan poll-watching during the primary, LDF contacted the Alabama Secretary of State expressing concerns over potential voter intimidation and ...
On April 4, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shot and killed Walter Scott, an unarmed African-American father, as he ran away during a routine traffic stop. The incident was caught on ...
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz urged his colleagues to block filling the current Supreme Court vacancy indefinitely, remarking that “[t]here is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices.” This statement and the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee raising “serious concerns about the current tone and rhetoric concerning voter participation on Election Day.” LDF ...
