LDF and Other Civil Rights Advocates File Brief Urging Ninth Circuit to Defer to EEOC’s Guidance on Criminal Background Checks in Employment

Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed a “friend of the court” brief in Guerrero v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

LDF Statement on North Carolina Forward Together/Moral Mondays Movement

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joins the North Carolina Forward Together/Moral Mondays movement in calling for the repeal of North Carolina House Bill 2. We are not this. House Bill 2 ...

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 ...

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