Arguing Against Use of Religious Beliefs to Justify Discrimination in Public Accommodations, LDF Files Brief in Support of Same-Sex Couple Denied Wedding Flowers in Washington State

On February 8, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with Perkins Coie LLP, filed a “friend of the court” brief in State v. Arlene’s Flowers, Inc., a case that challenges a ...

Black History Month 2016: “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

Milestones in LDF’s Fight for Voter Equality In this first “Throwback Thursday” (#tbt) installment of our “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now” series for Black History Month 2016, we will take a look ...

LDF Calls on U.S. Justice Department to Launch, Complete, or Expand Civil Rights Investigations of Two Police Departments and Multiple Police Officers

Focus on North Charleston, SC; Baltimore, MD; and New York City The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a letter today asking U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the U.S. Department of ...

For Black History Month 2016, LDF Launches a Weekly Exploration of “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

In a recent blog post on The DailyKos, Denise Oliver Velez pointedly reminds us of the controversy about the continued relevance of Black History Month. “Each year,” Velez writes, “as we move into the month ...

LDF Files “Friend-of-the-Court” Brief to Uphold Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) Program

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Crowell & Moring LLP, has filed an amicus curiae ...

LDF Reviews Proposed Settlement Between Ferguson and U.S. Department of Justice

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the City of Ferguson released a proposed consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) resulting from a “pattern and practice” investigation undertaken by the DOJ in the wake of the ...

James Cole, Jr., Former Board Member of LDF, to Become U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, Leading My Brother’s Keeper Task Force

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that former Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), James Cole, Jr., will assume the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Education in ...

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