LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment

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LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute and National Constitution Center Host Symposium to Commemorate the Fourteenth Amendment  Leading Legal Scholars, Historians, and Civil Rights Advocates Reflect on the Importance of the Amendment Ratified 150 Years Ago The ...

Advocates for Civil and Reproductive Rights Call for Vitter’s Withdrawal

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A coalition of leaders in the reproductive rights and civil rights fields called today for the withdrawal of Wendy Vitter’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. ...

LDF Statement on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Plan to Restore Voting Rights to People with Felony Convictions

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On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order giving consideration for a conditional pardon to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who are on parole. Leah Aden, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill Discusses Anti-Discrimination Training for Starbucks Employees on NPR

By: Noel King Source: NPR     NPR’s Noel King talks to Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who is among the experts advising Starbucks on their new ...

Haitian Civil Rights Organizations Join Two of the Nation’s Oldest Civil Rights Organizations in TPS Lawsuit

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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) filed an amended complaint in the ongoing lawsuit originally filed on behalf of the NAACP, the nation’s premier grassroots civil rights organization, against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Gives Keynote Speech at “Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50” Conference

By: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Source: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society   Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., gives a ...

LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Joins Local and National Experts to Develop Anti-Discrimination Training Curriculum for Starbucks Employees

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Starbucks Coffee Company announced today that it is closing all of its stores on May 29 to conduct training designed to prevent discrimination and address racial bias. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) ...

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