Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the nomination of Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s 83rd Attorney General. Currently, Ms. Lynch is the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New ...
LDF commends the U.S. Senate HELP Committee for advancing reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Passed on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ESEA is the largest federal education ...
As the organization that litigated Brown v. Board of Education over sixty years ago, LDF has led the charge in advancing equal educational opportunity in our nation’s public schools. As Chief Justice Warren noted in the ...
On January 5, 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted a letter to Judge Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri, requesting that the court conduct an appropriate ...
See the following media accounts regarding the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on the Fair Housing Act in the case Texas v. Inclusive Communities Project. Appearances: Sherrilyn Ifill Lauds Supreme Court Decision in Disparate Impact Case, All ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy and vision for a healthy, inclusive democracy by launching a 35-day website countdown to the 50th anniversary commemoration ...
The Supreme Court will hear Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. on January 21, 2015. This case puts landmark civil rights law in jeopardy, as the case considers ...
