The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has vigorously promoted educational equity over its seventy-five year existence. Since its passage in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has served as our ...
On November 24, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Public Citizen, and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, along with 25 other organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief ...
On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson talks about the dashcam video released in the Laquan McDonald shooting and explains why there was no audio accompanying it.
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has described the video showing a Chicago police officer shooting 17 year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 as yet another appalling example of a police officer demonstrating a ...
Sixty years ago today, a Montgomery, Alabama seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a crowded city bus when a white person demanded her seat. Her arrest and the reaction by ...
On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the New York Law School Racial Justice Project (“the Racial Justice Project”) and two Detroit-based organizations—the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at ...
Almost one year after video footage captured two Cleveland police officers shooting and killing Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, Cleveland prosecutors only recently convened a grand jury to determine whether the officers should be ...
