Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) launched the groundbreaking Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP), an innovative educational and training opportunity that will produce the next generation of civil rights attorneys to serve ...
Last week, the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) terminated Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Myles Cosgrove, two of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. In response, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational ...
Today, The American Lawyer named Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), its 2020 Attorney of the Year. Ms. Ifill was selected for the prestigious award for ...
Today, the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for incitement of insurrection. The charge is pursuant to the president’s role in encouraging a coup attempt by white supremacist groups and ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with co-counsel Winston & Strawn LLP, filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc (LDF) submitted comments on the state of implementation of the Ferguson Consent Decree. Since the beginning of the consent decree’s implementation nearly six years ago, one ...
Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he has nominated Judge Merrick Garland to serve as the next Attorney General (AG) of the United States, Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General, and Kristen Clarke as Assistant ...
