LDF expresses solidarity and support to students adversely affected by Parent PLUS Loan changes; offers aid to Morgan State and Howard universities LDF, in collaboration with UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), has agreed to ...
On Wednesday October 9th, Vincent Southerland, Senior Counsel in the Criminal Justice Practice, will argue a case in front of the entire Sixth Circuit calling for the Fair Sentencing Act to be applied retroactively and ...
On September 25, 2013, LDF sent a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and the thirteen members of the D.C. Council urging them to make changes to the District of Columbia’s property tax lien ...
This weekend, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) awarded Elaine Jones, LDF’s former President and Director-Counsel, with the prestigious CBC Chair’s Phoenix Award. The Phoenix Awards are presented annually at CBC’s Legislative Conference Dinner to “extraordinary individuals who, through their efforts and accomplishments, ...
LDF welcomed today’s vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve the nomination of Cornelia (“Nina”) Pillard to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Pillard was one of three persons nominated by ...
Demetrius Newton, a treasured LDF cooperating attorney in Alabama, died recently at the age of 85. As as civil rights lawyer, he represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as many others arrested during ...
Amid a heated debate over reducing California’s prison population, LDF and Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project have released a report that analyzes the impact of the historic Three Strikes Reform Act passed by California voters ...
