Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz urged his colleagues to block filling the current Supreme Court vacancy indefinitely, remarking that “[t]here is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices.” This statement and the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee raising “serious concerns about the current tone and rhetoric concerning voter participation on Election Day.” LDF ...
The Atlantic Philanthropies and Columbia University today announced the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity, a 10-year, $60 million program for courageous and creative leaders dedicated to dismantling anti-black racism in the United States and South ...
On October 20, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) joined the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality (Korematsu Center), 18 other bar associations and non-profit organizations, and 32 law school professors in ...
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the police-involved shooting death of Ms. Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old Black woman and Bronx resident with a history of mental ...
“Jack Greenberg was an American hero. If all he had done was serve in the navy during WWII, he would have earned that status. But his greatest battle was against our country’s greatest evil – ...
“By example, Jack taught young lawyers how to conduct ourselves in litigation; courtesy to opposing counsel, respect for the Court, solid and thorough research and preparation, and expressing oneself orally and in writing with clarity ...
