The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., (LDF) welcomed today’s historic votes by the U.S. Senate to confirm the first African-American female judges ever to serve on Georgia’s federal judiciary. The Senate confirmed Leslie ...
Janai Nelson on the Supreme Court’s consideration of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before it: “There are already 20 million people that have registered for health care under the ACA, and so to reverse ...
LDF mourns the passing of iconic civil rights lawyer, John Doar. Mr. Doar was a fearless advocate of racial justice, who served alongside LDF in the most significant civil rights struggles of the 1960’s. ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. deeply mourns the loss of William Scheide, mentor and friend to successive Director-Counsels, longstanding member of the board, and the organization’s most generous individual donor. Many ...
Calvin Jerreau Fortenberry is the Director of Communications for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund & Educational Fund. Joining in 2014, Calvin has held Director of Communications roles for both the Housing Authority of the County ...
Honorees on the 29th Annual List Include Gabrielle Union, LeBron James,Shonda Rhimes, Pharrell Williams, Kevin Hart and T.D. Jakes Music Impresario Quincy Jones will receive the EBONY Achievement Award Gala Celebration Will Take Place in ...
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) applauds President Obama’s historic appointment of the first African American female Attorney General of the United States, Loretta Lynch. Ms. Lynch, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New ...
