Fifty-five years ago, on January 9, 1961, when the University of Georgia (UGA) accepted its first two black students—Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter–Gault —America marked a key milestone in the battle for racial justice, equal rights, ...
Following yesterday’s grand jury indictment of a Texas State trooper for perjury in connection with his traffic stop and arrest of Sandra Bland—and the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (Texas DPS) initiation of proceedings to ...
NAACP LDF celebrates the 55th anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia (UGA) and the courage of award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who was one of the first two African-American students to integrate UGA. ...
“The failure to indict in this case compounds the tragic loss of Tamir Rice with grave injustice,” said Janai Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Associate Director-Counsel. Today, a grand jury failed to charge Officers Timothy ...
In 2015 an extended national crisis in racial justice reconfirmed the need for visionary leadership in the fight for racial equality. For the past 75 years, whenever the call for civil rights leadership rang out, ...
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds Friday’s announcement of President Barack Obama granting commutations of sentences to 95 individuals and pardons to two individuals. With Friday’s commutations, President Obama has granted ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center; Covington & Burling LLP; and the ACLU of Maryland, filed a complaint with the United States Department of Transportation ...
