On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the City of Ferguson released a proposed consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) resulting from a “pattern and practice” investigation undertaken by the DOJ in the wake of the ...
The U.S. Department of Education announced today that former Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), James Cole, Jr., will assume the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Education in ...
Natasha Merle joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as a LDF/Fried Frank Fellow in January of 2016. Natasha spent the first two years of her fellowship as a litigation associate in the ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana, declaring that its previous decision in Miller v. Alabama–which banned mandatory sentences of life without ...
Today, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw received a sentence of 263 years for raping and sexually assaulting eight Black women while on duty. “In this case, justice, although late, was served,” said Sherrilyn ...
School Segregation Remains Problem in Many Schools Nationwide The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is pleased to announce that a federal district court in Louisiana has approved a school desegregation plan involving the St. ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and co-counsel Neil Bradley, on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten Black voters, have successfully ...
