LDF Celebrates Black History

Black History Month is about celebrating the legacy and contributions of African Americans – past, present and future. For the past 75 years, LDF has stood on the front lines of the fight for equality ...

LDF Urges Senate Committee to Not Turn Its Back on Brown

In a Comment Letter on Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander’s Discussion Draft of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization, LDF urges the Chairman to retain the important federal ...

Deuel Ross Gives 29th Annual MLK Commemorative Event Keynote at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

LDF’s Fried Frank Fellow Deuel Ross was the keynote speaker for the 29th Annual MLK Commemorative event at the University of Wisconsin on January 28th.  Ross spoke on “The Voting Rights Act: Historical and Contemporary Developments.” ...

LDF Supports Loretta Lynch Nomination for U. S. Attorney General

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s 83rd Attorney General.  Currently, Ms. Lynch is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New ...

Quality Teachers in Every School are Central to Equal Educational Opportunity

LDF commends the U.S. Senate HELP Committee for advancing reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).  Passed on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ESEA is the largest federal education ...

LDF Urges Senate Committee to Act to Fulfill Promise of Brown

As the organization that litigated Brown v. Board of Education over sixty years ago, LDF has led the charge in advancing equal educational opportunity in our nation’s public schools. As Chief Justice Warren noted in the ...

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Receives Response in Request for Investigation of Darren Wilson Grand Jury Proceedings by Administration Department of 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri

On January 5, 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted a letter to Judge Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri, requesting that the court conduct an appropriate ...

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