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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
By: Todd A. Cox Source: CNN The US Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education was a watershed moment in the fight for racial justice. The ruling not only banned segregation in ...
By: MP McQueen Source: The National Law Journal A week after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the landmark Fair Housing Act was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The act, now 50 years old, outlawed ...
By: Angel Harris, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta and Darius Charney Source: New York Times Related Case or Issue: Davis v. City of New York Most people think we won the stop-and-frisk case in 2013, when a ...
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF), The American Civil Liberties Union, and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights called on Congress today to take ...
