LDF Senior Counsel Vincent Southerland speaks with St. Louis Public Radio about the LDF letter to Judge Maura McShane. The letter requested an appropriate and thorough investigation of the grand jury proceedings of former Ferguson, ...
LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill talks with Rachel Maddow about the Fair Housing Act case argued before the Supreme Court on January 21, 2015. LDF submitted a brief in the Texas v. Inclusive Communities ...
Sunday’s Apollo Uptown Hall event, “Hear Our Voices, Count Our Votes: MLK’s March Continues,” marked King’s legacy and the 50 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. LDF Associate Director-Counsel Janai ...
In a blog post for the Alliance for Justice web site, LDF Director of the Washington, D.C. Office Leslie Proll gives historical context to the Fair Housing Act and presses its continued importance on a day ...
In the New York Daily News, LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill comments on the preliminary settlement in which the New York Police Department agrees “to reform police training and guidelines for encounters with residents and ...
The prosecutors in the grand jury proceeding against Darren Wilson are now facing an ethics complaint. Christi Griffin and Sherrilyn Ifill join Lawrence O’Donnell. Follow the latest developments on Ferguson here.
Symposium: The disparate-impact framework remains essential and effective John Paul Schnapper-Casteras is Special Counsel for Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed an amicus brief in support of the ...
