LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson appeared on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the tragic police-involved killings of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, La. and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Mn. Their deaths set ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel, joined President Obama, chiefs of police, heads of police unions, activists, and other political and civil rights leaders at the White House yesterday ...
One year after she was found dead in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas following a traffic stop and arrest by former Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, ...
The ACLU of Michigan, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and lawyers from Covington & Burling LLP today filed a class-action lawsuit against the Wayne County Treasurer, Wayne County and the City of ...
How Can We Improve Relations between Police and Minority Communities? “Sherrilyn Ifill [President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,] Terrence Cunningham of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Wesley Lowery of the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is profoundly saddened to learn about the passing of Dr. Sonnie Hereford, III, a courageous civil rights pioneer and former LDF client. As a valiant ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) grieves, along with the nation, last night’s devastating events in Dallas, Texas where a mass shooting on law enforcement took place in a week already filled with tremendous tragedy and loss. During peaceful ...
