Civil Rights Organizations, Students, Former Military Leaders, LGBT Groups, Corporations Support Continuing Efforts to Achieve Diversity on Campuses Read more: LDF Takes on Controversial Comments at Fisher Oral Argument The U.S. Supreme Court today heard ...
Today, the Senate passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) by a vote of 85 to 12, assuring the bill’s advancement to President Obama for his signature. The ESSA is the 2015 reauthorization of the ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the Iowa Supreme Court to end felon disfranchisement in the state. The case of Kelli Jo Griffin vs. Paul Pate ...
December 6, 2015, marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which wrote slavery out of our Constitution and breathed life into Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom.” The ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Court to Count All People in State Redistricting Texas made a compelling case today when it argued, in Evenwel v. Abbott, that the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) supports the Justice Department’s decision to open a civil rights ‘pattern or practice’ investigation of the Chicago Police Department to determine whether the department has engaged ...
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Time Warner Center, LDF hosted SHOWDOWN: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, a talk with Wil Haygood and Sherrilyn Ifill. SHOWDOWN was recently named ...
