With Sherrilyn Ifill, Searching for solutions in Baltimore, Face the Nation (May 3, 2015) “A discussion about unrest in Baltimore with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.” ...
This is a difficult but necessary thing to say: police involved killings and assaults on unarmed African Americans are unlikely to end soon. They will not end quickly, because they are neither new nor reflective ...
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) calls for immediate redress for the death of Freddie Gray and the long record of excessive use of force by the Baltimore Police Department in order ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational, Inc. (LDF) defends before the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals its trial court win against SB 14, Texas’s intentionally discriminatory voter ID law and the strictest voter ...
Today’s Senate confirmation of Loretta Lynch as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States is truly historic and long overdue. Ms. Lynch will be the first African-American woman ever to lead the Department of ...
Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has officially opened an investigation of Freddie Gray’s death to determine whether any “prosecutable civil rights violation occurred.” The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) applauds this decision and renews ...
On April 16, 2015, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee unanimously passed its Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization bill, the Every Child Achieves Act out of Committee by a vote ...
