LDF attorneys Sherrilyn Ifill, Janai Nelson and Monique Lin-Luse responded to controversial points raised by conservative Supreme Court justices at oral arguments held on December 9, 2015, including a suggestion that African- American students who come from ...
This week, xenophobic hate speech reached a fever pitch amid an international refugee crisis and following a tragic mass shooting in the United States. Elected officials have openly vowed to refuse Syrian refugees in violation ...
Civil Rights Organizations, Students, Former Military Leaders, LGBT Groups, Corporations Support Continuing Efforts to Achieve Diversity on Campuses Read more: LDF Takes on Controversial Comments at Fisher Oral Argument The U.S. Supreme Court today heard ...
Today, the Senate passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) by a vote of 85 to 12, assuring the bill’s advancement to President Obama for his signature. The ESSA is the 2015 reauthorization of the ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief urging the Iowa Supreme Court to end felon disfranchisement in the state. The case of Kelli Jo Griffin vs. Paul Pate ...
December 6, 2015, marked the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which wrote slavery out of our Constitution and breathed life into Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom.” The ...
NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges Court to Count All People in State Redistricting Texas made a compelling case today when it argued, in Evenwel v. Abbott, that the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold the ...
