NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Comments on the Proposed Baltimore Consent Decree Today, in response to the federal court’s order soliciting public comment, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written comments on ...
New Report Highlights Stark Racial Disparities in Prisoner Exonerations Data Showing Innocent African Americans More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted Today, the National Registry of Exonerations released Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, ...
President Trump’s Revised Executive Order on Immigration and Refugees Continues to Persecute and Discriminate Against Muslims Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, President Trump signed a revised version of his executive order banning ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Applauds the Supreme Court’s Ruling That Racial Bias Cannot Be Tolerated in the Criminal Justice System Read the PDF of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) applauds today’s ...
LDF sent a letter to Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer expressing our opposition to H.J. Res. 57/S.J. Res. 25 disapproving the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) state plans and ...
Read a PDF of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. issued the following statement calling for a special prosecutor to investigate Attorney General Sessions and Russian involvement in the ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Participates in Historic Selma March Anniversary Events, Calls for Renewed Attention to Challenging Discriminatory Voting Laws The national conversation around voting rights and the Trump administration’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud ...
