The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) supports the Justice Department’s decision to open a civil rights ‘pattern or practice’ investigation of the Chicago Police Department to determine whether the department has engaged ...
On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Time Warner Center, LDF hosted SHOWDOWN: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America, a talk with Wil Haygood and Sherrilyn Ifill. SHOWDOWN was recently named ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has vigorously promoted educational equity over its seventy-five year existence. Since its passage in 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) has served as our ...
On November 24, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Public Citizen, and the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights, along with 25 other organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief ...
On MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson talks about the dashcam video released in the Laquan McDonald shooting and explains why there was no audio accompanying it.
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. has described the video showing a Chicago police officer shooting 17 year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 as yet another appalling example of a police officer demonstrating a ...
Sixty years ago today, a Montgomery, Alabama seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a crowded city bus when a white person demanded her seat. Her arrest and the reaction by ...
