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 ...
On Thursday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the New York Law School Racial Justice Project (“the Racial Justice Project”) and two Detroit-based organizations—the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at ...
Almost one year after video footage captured two Cleveland police officers shooting and killing Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, Cleveland prosecutors only recently convened a grand jury to determine whether the officers should be ...
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts. The hearing, titled “War on Police: How the Federal Government Undermines State ...
Boggs Media, LLC, and Paula Boggs Band are thrilled to announce their involvement with My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, which unites leaders across philanthropic, nonprofit, and private sectors to improve life outcomes of boys and men ...
Carlton T. Mayers II joins the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as Policy Counsel for its Policing Reform Campaign, where he will advance LDF’s efforts to effect responsible and unbiased policing by ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) pays tribute to Jacqueline A. Berrien, an extraordinary and highly accomplished civil rights lawyer, the 14th Chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2010-2014), ...
