Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, New York Police Department (NYPD) Sgt. Hugh Barry was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old woman who suffered ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, Cleveland officials announced internal disciplinary actions against the two police officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on November 22, 2014. Cleveland Police Officer ...
Document Requests Sent to Maine and New Hampshire Secretaries of State Washington, D.C. – The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent Freedom of Information Act requests to two states seeking documents related ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Late yesterday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the Definition of Moral Turpitude Act, restoring voting rights to thousands of citizens who were previously disenfranchised. Until now, Alabama ...
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, researchers at UCLA and Penn State released Southern Schools More Than Half a Century After the Civil Rights Revolution, a new report reviewing segregation trends in Southern ...
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 ...
