Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Celebrates Ruling From New York’s Highest Court to Help End Racially-Tainted Wrongful Convictions The New York State Court of Appeals today ruled that New York courts must instruct ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF to Deliver Oral Arguments in Eleventh Circuit in Ongoing Fight to Desegregate Alabama School District The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) will appear before ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Statement on Senator Grassley Advising the White House to Reconsider the Judicial Nominations of Brett Talley and Jeff Mateer Today, it was reported that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman ...
The Senate election in Alabama on Tuesday is not just about the choice between Doug Jones and Roy Moore. It’s also about a voter suppression campaign that may well sway the result of a close ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Submits Testimony for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on the School-to-Prison Pipeline The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony in support of ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. Class of Job Applicants Reach Settlement Resolving Lawsuit over Discriminatory Impact of WMATA’s Criminal Background Screening Policy Today, a class of African-American applicants and employees who were denied employment ...
The majority of Columbus, Ohio’s, city council members are African Americans. But the city’s method for electing city council members is racially discriminatory, or at least this is what Jonathan Beard, a developer in Columbus’s ...
