LDF applauds the guidance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, clarifying that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) applies to the use of criminal records by housing providers. HUD’s guidance explains that a provider ...
Last year on April 4, the nation watched a bystander’s video of a North Charleston police officer shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed African American father, as he ran away during a routine traffic ...
On April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — at the time, perhaps the country’s most passionate advocate of nonviolent protest in support of civil rights. When Dr. King was ...
After serving 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Richard Rosario, a former client of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), was freed last week, returning to his ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly disappointed that the Brooklyn District Attorney, Ken Thompson, has recommended that former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang receive no jail time in ...
March 20, 2016, marks the 76th anniversary of the incorporation of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). Thurgood Marshall, LDF’s founder and, later, the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, drafted LDF’s ...
LDF is Hopeful the Decree Will Be Implemented Effectively, Faithfully and Expeditiously to Heal the Ferguson Community, Subject to a Fairness Hearing NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is pleased to learn ...
