The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), led by President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill, has consistently spoken out about the persistent problem of taxi drivers refusing service to New Yorkers based on their race. LDF has engaged in preliminary ...
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Recently, an off-duty Cincinnati police officer, Kevin Brown, used a taser on an 11-year-old girl for allegedly shoplifting snacks. At the time, Brown was working as a security guard ...
Along with Carlyle Parish LLC and the Bradley Law Firm, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), today filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a significant case about racial discrimination in jury ...
Comments on 2020 Census, Including Proposed Information Collection The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), our country’s first and foremost civil rights and racial justice organization, appreciates the opportunity to provide comments ...
Related Case or Issue: NYPD’s “Gang” Policing Tactics The New York City Police Department (NYPD) maintains a database that classifies thousands of New Yorkers – 99% of whom are people of color – as ...
Twenty-five Harvard student and alumni organizations, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), filed an amicus brief today in a Massachusetts federal court condemning a divisive lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the consideration ...
LDF Continues to Challenge Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Photo ID Law in Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will appear before a federal appeals court on Friday to ...
