LDF Joins the Election Protection Coalition in Open Letter to Political Parties Concerning Voter Intimidation

As part of the Election Protection Coalition, the largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, LDF sent an open letter to the leadership of the four political ...

Sherrilyn Ifill in SCOTUSBlog: How Will the Confirmation of a 9th Justice Affect the Future of Diversity in Higher Ed?

Source: SCOTUSBlog

The Court after Scalia: Affirmative action in a changing Court How will the confirmation of a ninth Justice affect the future of diversity in higher education? After years of going back and forth to the ...

LDF Requests Additional Clarification from Baltimore County Police Department

On August 19, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) received a letter from the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD). In that letter, the BCoPD responded to the LDF’s August 15 correspondence ...

LDF Files Objection to Gardendale’s Efforts to Stymie Desegregation

Gardendale Practice Part of Troubling Trend of Reinstating Racially Segregated Education The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an objection in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ...

Celebrate the Anniversary of the March on Washington By Continuing Its Work

 Legal Defense Fund Honors the 53rd Anniversary of the March on Washington Fifty-three years ago, on August 28, 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. exhorted the audience of 250,000 people who had gathered at the steps ...

A Tribute to Clarence C. Finley, 1922-2016

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) mourns the loss of former board member and civil rights pioneer Clarence C. Finley, who not only played an instrumental part in integrating the United States ...

LDF Stands Up for African-American Consumers

LDF Submits Comments to CFPB on Critical Proposed RuleRegarding Forced Arbitration and Class Action Waivers LDF has a long history of using class-action litigation to fight racial discrimination in housing, employment, lending, and other areas of ...

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