How Can We Improve Relations between Police and Minority Communities? “Sherrilyn Ifill [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,] Terrence Cunningham of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Wesley Lowery of the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly saddened to learn about the passing of Dr. Sonnie Hereford, III, a courageous civil rights pioneer and former LDF client. As a valiant ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) grieves, along with the nation, last night’s devastating events in Dallas, Texas where a mass shooting on law enforcement took place in a week already filled with tremendous tragedy and loss. During peaceful ...
Not even twenty-four hours after Alton Sterling’s death at the hands of law enforcement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop near St. Paul, ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is disappointed with the Census Bureau’s plan to continue to count upwards of 2 million incarcerated people, including a disproportionate number of Black and Latino persons, ...
Last night, graphic footage taken by a witness’s cell phone and circulated widely online, showed Alton Sterling, 37, being shot multiple times outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as two police officers pinned ...
Today, at the invitation of the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the Policing Project at New York University School of Law has launched a website, www.nypdbodycameras.org, which contains a brief questionnaire to gather public ...
