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 ...
In a letter to President Barack Obama calling for executive action for fair chance hiring, LDF encourages the White House and the federal government to “lead the way in adopting practices that allow for equal opportunity for all ...
(Washington, DC) – The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) deplores today’s shocking video showing a police officer violently assaulting and removing a student from a public school classroom in Columbia, South Carolina. While ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF) congratulates the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) on selecting Kristen Clarke as its President and Executive Director. LDF and LCCRUL have worked collaboratively ...
Washington, D.C. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) commends the Senate Judiciary Committee’s favorable consideration of a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123.) ...
New York, NY – Thirty-two law school and undergraduate students are the newest beneficiaries of a prestigious scholarship from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), the organization announced today. Among the scholars ...
