Washington, D.C. – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) calls on Congress to reject the President’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget for the Education Department. The budget drastically cuts funding intended to support ...
LDF’s Director of Policy Todd Cox Testifies at EEOC Hearing Earlier today, LDF Policy Director Todd Cox testified before the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. The Subcommittee ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) brought internal charges against five of the officers responsible for killing Freddie Gray, with three of them facing termination, according to the Baltimore ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Over the weekend, Mississippi state legislator Karl Oliver posted a message on Facebook suggesting that officials who attempt to take down Confederate monuments “should be lynched.” NAACP Legal Defense and ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Last week, the Alabama State Legislature passed the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, a bill that would restore the right to vote to thousands of citizens, including many people ...
Civil Rights Groups Retained to Represent African American Teens Punished for Wearing Braids at Massachusetts Charter School Mya and Deanna Cook Have Received Detention and Been Banned from Extracurricular Activities for Violating Discriminatory School Policy ...
Maya and Deanna Cook Have Received Detention and Been Banned from Extracurricular Activities for Violating Discriminatory School Policy The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU ...
