Everything You Need to Know About Jeff Sessions

On November 18, 2016, President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions will be his nominee for Attorney General of the United States.  As head of the Department of Justice and the nation’s top ...

LDF Commemorates Louis Harris, 1921-2016

Read the PDF of our statement here. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund mourns the loss of long-time board member Louis Harris. Harris was a giant of American political life, revolutionizing the use of public opinion analysis ...

Free the Vote: LDF and The Sentencing Project Release New Report on Felony Disenfranchisement

Read the PDF of our report here. Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and The Sentencing Project issued Free the Vote: Unlocking Democracy in the Cells and on the Streets, reporting ...

Janai Nelson: Proven Perils of Rolling the Dice on Trump

By: Janai Nelson Source: Huffington Post From the moment he began assembling his administration, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the worst fears of the 75 percent of the electorate who did not vote for him. He ...

Janai Nelson: Proven Perils of Rolling the Dice on Trump

Source: The Huffington Post

From the moment he began assembling his administration, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the worst fears of the 75 percent of the electorate who did not vote for him. He has eschewed a team of ...

Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission

Accomplished Advocates Adegbile, Llahmon Named to Civil Rights Commission Statement of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Appointments to United States Commission on Civil Rights: We commend President Obama’s appointment of two extremely accomplished ...

Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein: Criminal Justice Policy Is Education Policy

Thurgood Marshall Institute Fellow Richard Rothstein co-authored a report for the Economic Policy Institute examining the effects of parental incarceration on children’s performance in school. The report discusses the impacts the discriminatory incarceration of African ...

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