LDF President & Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on the Andrea Mitchell Report on MSNBC to explain the Supreme Court’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas and to talk about the still-to-be-decided case of Shelby County, Alabama. As Ifill explained, in Fisher the Court reaffirmed ...
On June 20, 2013, Anderson Cooper 360 profiled the case of LDF client, Duane Buck, who was sentenced to death in Texas after his sentencing jury was told that he was more likely to be ...
Statement by NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Mount Holly v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. We call on the Court to use this ...
Director of LDF’s Economic Justice Group, ReNika Moore, appears on HuffPost Live with the EEOC’s top lawyer and a community activist discussing how employer’s use background checks can unfairly and unlawfully keep African American jobseekers ...
LDF’s Director of Economic Justice, ReNika Moore, praises two new lawsuits filed by the EEOC as an important step against workplace discrimination. “People who are trying to work, trying to be productive citizens, are being ...
George Wallace Fifty years ago this week, Alabama Governor George Wallace defiantly stood in the schoolhouse door at the and refused to admit Vivian Malone and James Hood because of their race. NAACP Legal Defense ...
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. released a new video highlighting the racial discrimination in the Texas death penalty system and the shocking case of death-sentenced prisoner, Duane Buck. Mr. Buck was ...
