Janai Nelson Discusses Tamir Rice Shooting on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Source: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

Tamir Rice, a 12-year old boy, was fatally killed by Cleveland Police Officer. LDF Associate Director-Counsel  Janai Nelson casts doubt on the finding that the officer’s conduct was objectively reasonable at the time, saying that ...

LDF Celebrates 75 Years of Visionary Civil Rights Leadership at Annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner

Read More Here: LDF Celebrates 75 Years of Visionary Civil Rights Leadership at Annual National Equal Justice Award Dinner, Black PR Wire (Nov. 10, 2015) Taylor Lewis, Legal Defense Fund Presents Eric Holder With Lifetime ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in Society at NYU Law

(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th ...

Sherrilyn Ifill Delivers the 20th Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in Society at NYU Law

(New York, NY) – Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Education and Defense Fund, Inc.’s (“LDF”) President and Director-Counsel, delivers her lecture “America Divided: Brown’s Predictive Power & the Urgent Moment for Racial Equality” for the 20th Annual ...

LDF Joins Outpouring of Support for Diversity in Higher Education in Supreme Court Briefs in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (“Fisher II”), urging the U.S. Supreme Court ...

LDF Statement on President Obama’s Actions to Promote Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Persons with Criminal Records

LDF welcomes President Obama’s announcement of a series of actions designed to promote opportunities for successful reentry of persons impacted by the criminal justice system. These measures address many of the substantial barriers faced by ...

LDF Relaunches “Prepared to Vote” Election Day Voter Education Initiative in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas 

For Election Day 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF) continues its annual “Prepared to Vote” public education campaign, designed to empower voters. LDF attorneys will be on the ground in Houston ...

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