Civil Rights Organizations Demand Court Order Requiring NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Reforms

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Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York   Civil Rights Organizations Demand Court Order Requiring NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Reforms Organizations that successfully challenged stop and frisk request reforms based on three years of community ...

LDF Statement on Confirmation of Kenneth L. Marcus to Lead U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

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Today the Senate confirmed Kenneth L. Marcus to serve as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. In January the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter formally opposing ...

Supreme Court Reaffirms Core Anti-Discrimination Principles in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed core anti-discrimination principles in public accommodations laws in its ruling today in Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Relying on a 1968 case that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) litigated, the ...

LDF Statement on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Reform the Admissions Process of the City’s Specialized High Schools

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Related Case or Issue: New York City Specialized High School Complaint   New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today plans to enact new measures to diversify the City’s most elite public high schools, ...

Civil Rights and Faith Leaders Send Tulsa Mayor and City Council Chair Letter Demanding Police Reforms

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Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign   The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined almost 50 Tulsa civil rights attorneys, religious leaders, members of law enforcement, elected officials and activists ...

LDF President Sherrilyn Ifill Joins MSNBC Town Hall on Implicit Bias

By: MSNBC Source: ‘Everyday Racism in America’: Real stories of racial bias   On May 29th, 8,000 Starbucks stores across the country closed for anti-bias training following the arrest of two black men. The same day, NAACP ...

LDF Condemns Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Judicial Nominees Vitter and Oldham

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A week after the 64th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nominations of Wendy Vitter and Andrew Oldham, who each refused ...

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