Statement from Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Today, over 1,000 law professors and deans have signed onto a letter condemning the disturbing message sent by the Senate’s failure to ...
This week, Sherrilyn Ifill and NAACP LDF’s Education Group recorded a high volume of media hits around the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ...
Today, Members of Congress, led by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI-13), introduced the Democracy Restoration Act of 2014, S. 2235 and H.R. 4459. The bill would restore voting rights in federal elections ...
In a column for The Washington Post’s popular “Wonkblog,” Emily Badger covers Sherrilyn Ifill‘s remarks at a recent discussion at the Economic Policy Institute on housing and poverty. “The most important fact we rarely admit in talking ...
LDF Assistant Counsel Ria Tabacco Mar appeared in front of New York’s City Hall in support of the Stop Credit Discrimination in Employment Act, which would ban the use of credit checks in employment. “Poor credit ...
Today, LDF attended a ceremony in the East Room of the White House where President Obama took two executive actions designed to assist minority and female workers in detecting and redressing pay discrimination. Discrimination in ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, along with the National Women’s Law Center and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, are sponsoring a congressional briefing on the Fair Employment Protection Act. The groups ...
