For Black History Month 2016, LDF Launches a Weekly Exploration of “Civil Rights, Equality, and Justice: Then & Now”

In a recent blog post on The DailyKos, Denise Oliver Velez pointedly reminds us of the controversy about the continued relevance of Black History Month. “Each year,” Velez writes, “as we move into the month ...

LDF Files “Friend-of-the-Court” Brief to Uphold Small Business Administration’s Section 8(a) Program

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), along with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Crowell & Moring LLP, has filed an amicus curiae ...

LDF Reviews Proposed Settlement Between Ferguson and U.S. Department of Justice

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016, the City of Ferguson released a proposed consent decree with the Department of Justice (DOJ) resulting from a “pattern and practice” investigation undertaken by the DOJ in the wake of the ...

James Cole, Jr., Former Board Member of LDF, to Become U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, Leading My Brother’s Keeper Task Force

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that former Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), James Cole, Jr., will assume the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Education in ...

Natasha Merle Joins LDF as LDF/Fried Frank Fellow

Natasha Merle joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) as a LDF/Fried Frank Fellow in January of 2016. Natasha spent the first two years of her fellowship as a litigation associate in the ...

LDF Applauds Supreme Court’s Montgomery v. Louisiana Decision to Apply Ban on Juvenile Life Sentences Retroactively, Affecting Thousands Who Were Imprisoned as Children

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Montgomery v. Louisiana, declaring that its previous decision in Miller v. Alabama–which banned mandatory sentences of life without ...

LDF Urges Systemic Reforms to Eliminate Police Sexual Misconduct Following Sentencing of Daniel Holtzclaw, Former Oklahoma Police Officer

Today, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw received a sentence of 263 years for raping and sexually assaulting eight Black women while on duty. “In this case, justice, although late, was served,” said Sherrilyn ...

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