In an interview with CBS Radio’s Fresh Perspectives show, Sherrilyn Ifill discusses the Brown v Board of Education decision sixty years on, as well as the work that has been done in desegregation efforts and ...
(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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
