Sherrilyn Ifill had an extensive conversation with Tavis Smiley on his show talking about LDF’s work fighting for fairer drug sentences, supporting HBCU students adversely affected by Parent PLUS loan changes, and our recent SCOTUS ...
Two national organizations have joined forces to help Black families in crisis after creditworthiness standards were abruptly changed for the Parent PLUS Loan program, which provides federal financial aid to college students. NAACP Legal Defense ...
The New York Times’ Editorial Board writes a vigorous piece in today’s paper that charges Prop 2 in Michigan as “impermissibly alter[ing] the political process that determines admissions policies in a way that places special ...
Leslie Proll, Director of LDF’s D.C. Office writes an op-ed in the Miami Herald on the dearth of black appellate court judges in the Eleventh Circuit: The government shutdown epitomizes the dysfunction caused by a ...
Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel in LDF’s Education Practice and an expert on the School-to-Prison pipeline, was quoted in a Huffington Post article on school policing. He forcefully argues against the practice of increasing the number ...
Mark Osler, a former prosecutor calls for #JusticeInSentencing and writes it’s “Time to free those who’ve been jailed too long.” Currently 9,000 individuals, the vast majority of whom are African-American, are still serving excessive and wildly discriminatory ...
In the wake of the federal government shutdown, the Department of Justice has asked a court to press pause on all proceedings in United States, et al. v. Texas, et al., a challenge under the Voting Rights ...
