Clothing Chain Wet Seal Settles Lawsuit Charging It with Firing African-American Employees

Company Agrees to Compensate Former Store Managers and Change Company Practices Wet Seal agreed to settle a national class action lawsuit filed by plaintiffs represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and ...

Maryland Governor Repeals State’s Death Penalty

On May 3, 2013, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed SB276 officially repealing the state’s death penalty.  With this act, Maryland became the sixth state in six years to abolish the death penalty.  In total, 18 ...

LDF Reaches New Agreement with State of Connecticut in Landmark Educational Equity Case Sheff v. O’Neill

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined its co-counsel in signing an agreement with the Connecticut State Department of Education to further the implementation of desegregation remedies required by Sheff v. O’Neill, ...

Rolling Stone Highlights LDF’s Co-Chair’s Efforts to Secure Justice in “Three Strikes” Cases

 LDF Co-Chair David Mills has fought to secure justice for people sentenced to life in prison for non-violent, non-serious crimes under California’s “Three Strikes” law. First through the work of the Stanford Law School Three ...

Author Gilbert King Congratulated by Legal Defense Fund on Pulitzer Prize

Author Gilbert King, Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction visited LDF’s offices in New York, where he was congratulated by LDF’s staff.  King’s book Devil in the Grove:  Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, ...

New York Times Editorial Board Weighs in On Police in Schools-Highlights LDF Advocacy

The Editorial board of the New York Times today highlighted the unintended consequences of placing police officers in the nation’s schools, and warned school districts that are considering adding police on school campuses to think ...

‘Devil in the Grove’ Wins Pulitzer Prize

 Gilbert King’s riveting account of Thurgood Marshall and other LDF attorneys efforts to obtain justice for four African Americans wrongly accused of rape in 1949 Florida was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.  The Pulitzer Prize Board described ...

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