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, ...
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 ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and the Texas Defender Service (TDS) released a video about an extraordinary case of racial bias in the administration of the death penalty. A Broken ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement in Response toSupreme Court’s Decision in Evenwel v. Abbott Today’s Supreme Court decision in Evenwel v. Abbott secures a major victory for voting rights and preserves a ...
LDF applauds the guidance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, clarifying that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) applies to the use of criminal records by housing providers. HUD’s guidance explains that a provider ...
Last year on April 4, the nation watched a bystander’s video of a North Charleston police officer shooting and killing Walter Scott, an unarmed African American father, as he ran away during a routine traffic ...
On April 4, 1968, an assassin’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — at the time, perhaps the country’s most passionate advocate of nonviolent protest in support of civil rights. When Dr. King was ...
