LDF Kicks Off Brown v. Board of Education 60th Anniversary Celebration with Public Service Announcement Declaring, “Together We Can End Inequality”

(New York, NY) In a public service announcement invoking the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended “separate but equal” in classrooms, the NAACP Legal Defense and ...

LDF Presses Arkansas to Drop Discriminatory Voter ID Law

Urges Arkansas to Expand Opportunities for Voters to Obtain Photo IDs In a May 5, 2014 letter to Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin and county clerks across Arkansas, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) ...

LDF Statement on SCOTUS Victory in Police Shooting Case

On Monday, April 5, 2014, the United States Supreme Court announced that the excessive force lawsuit filed by Washington Nationals baseball player, Robbie Tolan, was improperly dismissed by the United States Court of Appeals for ...

LDF Hosts Convening on Racial Disparities in Access to Credit

Access to fair credit affects all aspects of an individual’s or family’s life.  Unfortunately, African-American borrowers are often steered into predatory, risky loan products, or denied access to any credit at all.  To address these issues, on April ...

Botched Oklahoma Execution Highlights Barbarity of Capital Punishment

In the days and weeks leading up to last night’s horrifying execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma, there was much debate about the validity of the call for transparency in execution procedures.  Some contended that ...

LDF’s Ifill Calls for Renewed Activism Amid Outrage Over Racist Remarks

Statement of Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund When LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks came to light and spread over the Internet like wildfire, the NBA acted quickly ...

Recidivism Rate Among Three Strikes Inmates Continues To Be Extremely Low

Photo courtesy Loteria Films In a progress report co-published by Stanford Law School’s “Three Strikes Project” and LDF, the recidivism rate among inmates released under California’s Prop. 36, also known as the Three Strikes Reform ...

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