On July 12, 2012, the United States District Court of the Western District of Louisiana ruled in favor of LDF’s clients in Thomas v. St. Martin Parish School Board, denying the school board’s motions to ...
Delma Banks, who was once sentenced to die for the 1980 murder of a Nash, Texas, teenager, accepted a sentence of life Wednesday, ending a case that has lingered in the court system for 32 ...
Ryan Haygood, LDF Director of the Political Participation Group, spoke at the 103rd National NAACP Annual Convention on July 11, 2012 on protecting the voting rights of minorities in upcoming elections. You can see his ...
(New York, NY) A national class action lawsuit filed today charges that top executives at Wet Seal directed senior managers to get rid of African American store management employees for the sake of its “brand ...
(New York, NY) Today, the United States Supreme Court banned the imposition of mandatory life without parole sentences for children who were 17 or younger at the time of their crimes. In Miller v. Alabama, ...
MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts speaks to Debo Adegbile, Interim President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Defense Fund, about changes to Florida’s voting laws and the impact they could have on minority voters.
(Washington, DC) The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) applauds the U.S. Senate’s vote this afternoon to confirm Paul Watford to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit ...
