Thursday, April 29, 2021 | page
“We Are Not Lesser” An Urgent Call To End Over-Policing Of Black Communities And Transform Public Safety In Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa, Oklahoma’s history of racial bias and violence against its Black residents reaches back to the 1921 Greenwood Massacre, which decimated the city’s thriving Black community of Greenwood and resulted in the killing of at […]
Thursday, May 31, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today joined almost 50 Tulsa civil rights attorneys, religious leaders, members of law enforcement, elected officials and activists in sending a letter to Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and City Council Chair David Patrick calling for reforms to the Tulsa Police […]
Friday, May 7, 2021 | news
Today, less than one month before the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released “We Are Not Lesser,” a report examining the pronounced disparities in Tulsa’s policing practices, including its arrests of Black youth, Black adults, and uses of force against Black Tulsans. “We Are Not […]
Friday, May 7, 2021 | issue-report
“We Are Not Lesser” draws on official data and the testimony and accounts provided by Tulsa residents at multiple public convenings from June through September of 2019. The report calls for the city to remedy the Tulsa Police Department’s disparate enforcement practices against Black Tulsans and invest in services and programs that would reduce its […]
Thursday, May 18, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on Acquittal of Tulsa Police Officer for Death of Terence Crutcher Today, a jury acquitted Tulsa Police Officer Betty Jo Shelby of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man, during a roadside encounter in 2016. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational […]
Thursday, June 20, 2019 | news
Ahead of the June 22nd Tulsa City Council public listening session on racial disparities in police arrests, use of force and hiring, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to each of the nine city councilors asking them to take the following three critical steps as they examine and address […]
Friday, September 23, 2016 | news
President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement regarding the indictment of Officer Betty Shelby, who killed Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, and the release of the Scott family’s video footage of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte: “In the face of community anguish and the […]
Friday, December 1, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Files Open Records Request Concerning Tulsa Police Department The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed an open records request to gather information on the Tulsa Police Department (TPD). The ACLU of Oklahoma joined LDF in this inquiry regarding all aspects of the TPD’s practices, […]
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 | news
LDF Tribute to Charles Ogletree The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is deeply saddened at the passing of former Board member Charles J. Ogletree Jr. A renowned professor of law at Harvard Law School, Professor Ogletree, affectionately known as “Tree,” was an outspoken expert and activist on civil rights, particularly with respect to public education, criminal […]
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | page
LDF Year in Review 2021 Political Participation⟶ Criminal Justice⟶ Economic Justice⟶ Education⟶ On the heels of a tumultuous year, 2021 brought its own set of changes, challenges, and triumphs. In a year that began with a violent insurrection at our nation’s capital, LDF remained undeterred in the fight to protect our democracy in the face […]
