LDF Statement on Launch of Inaugural National Reentry Week and Attorney General Lynch’s Reform Package to Improve the Reentry Process for Persons Leaving Federal Prisons

  The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) lauded the announcement by Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she will personally request that state governors provide state-issued identification cards to persons returning to their ...

Civil Rights Leaders Respond to North Charleston Officials’ Request to the Department of Justice for Help with Improving Policing Practices

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and South Carolina civil rights leaders welcome the announcement by North Charleston’s Mayor and Chief of Police that they have invited the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) ...

LDF Names Two Renowned Scholars as Senior Research Fellows of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute

    Richard Rothstein and Phillip Atiba Goff Join LDF’s New Research and Advocacy Hub    The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is thrilled to announce today the selection of Richard Rothstein ...

LDF on Peter Liang’s Sentence of No Prison Time for the Killing of Akai Gurley

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is deeply disappointed that Judge Danny Chun did not sentence former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang to prison for the killing of Akai Gurley, ...

LDF Statement on the One-Year Anniversary of Freddie Gray’s Death

Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Freddie Gray, a young African-American man who succumbed to spinal cord injuries he suffered while in the custody of Baltimore City police officers one ...

LDF Provides Written Testimony on Ferguson Consent Decree in Advance of Court-Ordered Public Hearing

After several months of closed-door negotiations, the City of Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a consent decree to address Ferguson’s racially-biased and predatory policing and municipal court practices. Ferguson residents, ...

LDF Statement on Chicago’s Police Accountability Task Force Report

Report Documents Extensive Racial Discrimination in Policing Practices in the City   Wednesday’s release of a report by the Police Accountability Task Force entitled, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust Between the Chicago Police and the ...

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