Harry Belafonte, a renowned activist and musician, released a statement on his Facebook page calling for a new, fair sentencing hearing for LDF’s client, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was sentenced to death by a jury ...
In an opinion piece published in The Root this morning, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President & Director-Counsel, pens a long manifesto about the state of civil rights in America. In the wake of the Supreme ...
Amid positive media coverage in the New York Daily News on LDF’s upcoming case Davis v. City of New York, a lawsuit which challenges the NYPD’s policy and practice of unlawfully stopping and arresting public ...
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America by Evan J. Mandery highlights LDF’s role in the movement to end the death penalty. Mandery describes LDF as influential on “every major death ...
The New York Times highlighted the efforts of Communities United for Police Reform which recently achieved a major legal victory in the movement against Stop-and-Frisk tactics. LDF’s representatives to CUPR are Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele and Marquis Jenkins. ...
Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on Hardball with Gov. Pataki. They discussed A.G. Holder’s speech on sentencing reform, as well as the landmark Stop-and-Frisk ruling which declared the NYPD’s tactics violate rights. “The reality is that crime ...
“We’ve had a lot of people writing in about changes and that’s been a really great thing,” Natasha Korgaonkar, assistant counsel in NAACP LDF’s Political Participation Group, told POLITICO. “We’re also keeping our eyes and ...
