President Obama Nominates LDF Alum Bolden to Connecticut District Court

Last week, President Obama announced his intention to nominate former LDF lawyer Victor Bolden to serve on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.  Victor served as Assistant Counsel at LDF from ...

Misleading Quinnipiac Poll Obscures Real Problems of Policing in Public Housing

Poll Questions Include Inaccurate Data, Rely on False Premises (New York, NY)–A poll released today by Quinnipiac University relies on inaccurate data and false premises to reach an unsubstantiated conclusion that city voters want the New York City ...

WilmerHale Announces John A. Payton Fellowship

WilmerHale has announced today the launch of the John A. Payton Summer Associate Fellowship honoring the late John A. Payton, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Sixth President and Director-Counsel and a partner at Wilmer Cutler ...

Monique L. Dixon Joins Legal Defense Fund as Senior Policy Counsel

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. today announced that Monique L. Dixon has been appointed Senior Policy Counsel for Criminal Justice and State Education Initiatives, a new position based in Washington, D.C. that ...

LDF Supports Legislation That Would Reform the Specialized High School Admissions Process and Replace a Single Test With Multiple Measures of True Merit

(New York – NY) The NAACP Legal Defense Fund today welcomed the news that legislation proposed by New York state lawmakers would require that factors beyond a single multiple-choice exam be used to determine admissions ...

LDF Testifies Before Congress About Criminal Background Checks

NAACP LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill is one of four witnesses at today’s hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives on “The Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities of the EEOC: Examining the Concerns of Stakeholders.”  ...

LDF’s Ifill to Testify Before Congress about Workplace Protections

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund will testify tomorrow before the U.S. House of Representatives at a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. President and Director-Counsel ...

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