Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to James W. Johnson, Chief of the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD) seeking a thorough, transparent, and timely investigation into the police-involved shooting ...
Today, ahead of the November election, U.S. District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order providing interim relief to the 600,000 registered voters and 1.2 million eligible voters who lack one of the limited ...
The United States Department of Justice issued a scathing report detailing a pattern and practice of racial discrimination in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). The report was issued after the Division engaged in a nearly ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) remembers Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager whose death at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri served as the catalyst that sparked a nationwide ...
This weekend marks the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the signature achievements of American democracy. This landmark piece of legislation is one of the most important and effective civil ...
On Thursday, attorneys for Duane Buck filed his Brief for Petitioner with the U.S. Supreme Court in Buck v. Davis, an extraordinary Texas death penalty case about racial bias and ineffective assistance of counsel. Mr. ...
Today, Baltimore prosecutors dropped all charges filed against the remaining three Baltimore police officers pending trial for their involvement in the police in-custody death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed Black man. “We are deeply disappointed ...
