NAACP Legal Defense Fund Updates Report on Sessions Nomination with Documentary Materials

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund updated its report in opposition to the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States with documentary materials. LDF has engaged in an ...

NAACP LDF: Sessions Hostile to Principles of Equality, Justice and Civil Rights

Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be the U.S. Attorney General, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, issued the following statement: ...

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Submits Report to Judiciary Committee in Opposition to Sessions Nomination to Attorney General of the United States

Read the PDF of our statement here. Unceasing Hostility to Civil Rights Demonstrates Sessions Unqualified to Serve As Attorney General Washington, DC — Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a 32-page ...

Civil Rights Leaders Decry Rushed Confirmation Hearing of Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions

Washington, DC — Today, civil rights leaders from The Leadership Conference, the National Action Network, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., NCAPA, NCLR and MALDEF condemned the rushed hearing of Senator ...

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Commends USDOT on Agreement to Restore Driver’s License Issuing Offices in Alabama’s Majority Black Counties

Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Alabama’s department of motor vehicles, entered an agreement that fully restores the hours of driver’s license ...

LDF Letter to New York State Commissioner of Education Urging Her to Remove Carl Paladino from Buffalo School Board

Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to MaryEllen Elia, New York State Commissioner of Education, calling on her to remove Carl ...

Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Arrest of Jacqueline Craig by the Fort Worth Police Department

Read the PDF of our statement here. Cell phone video emerged last week showing a white Fort Worth, Texas police officer violently arresting an unarmed African-American woman, Jacqueline Craig. In a cruel twist of irony, Ms. ...

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