Thursday, January 27, 2011 | news
Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act of redemption, the appellate court upheld an admissions plan for undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin that takes […]
Monday, August 18, 2014 | news
(New York, NY)—Just 24 hours after the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law jointly issued a statement criticizing the curfew in Ferguson, Missouri as unconstitutional and calling for a de-escalation of the militarized response to civil unrest, Gov. Jay Nixon has suspended the city’s curfew. By […]
Monday, October 5, 2015 | news
October 17 Update: Alabama Governor Offers Partial Fix for Driver’s License Office Closures After Pressure from Voting Rights Advocates (Washington, DC) – After three weeks of pressure on Alabama Governor Robert Bentley over his announced closing of 31 driver’s license offices that issue the most common form of photo IDs needed to vote under Alabama […]
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 | page
On the Shelf and Screen Book, television, film and podcast recommendations from Janai Nelson, LDF’s 8th President and Director-Counsel To Read Civil Rights Queen Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality By Tomiko Brown-Nagin Constance Baker Motley has finally received her biographic due in this comprehensive, insightful, and sweeping book by civil Rights and […]
Thursday, June 25, 2015 | news
Sen. Scott: Nation’s future has been changed Republican South Carolina Senator Tim Scott gave an emotional speech on the senate floor as he remembered the nine victims of the Charleston massacre. Sherrilyn Ifill, the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, & the New Republic’s Jamil Smith join Lawrence.
Monday, January 11, 2016 | news
On the eve of President Obama’s last State of the Union Address, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) celebrates the Obama Administration’s commitment to core principles of equality over the past seven years. We also applaud the administration’s efforts to advance civil rights through legislation, executive orders, targeted agency regulations, and public […]
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 | news
Fifty years ago today, in Furman v. Georgia, a case successfully litigated by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the Supreme Court held the death penalty as administered in the United States violated the Constitution’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. While the ruling was ultimately superseded four years later through a series of decisions that reestablished capital […]
Friday, September 26, 2014 | news
Last night, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show where she discussed Attorney General Holder’s extraordinary civil rights legacy. “When Attorney General Holder took the helm of the Department of Justice in 2009, he vowed to make the Civil Rights division the department’s ‘crown jewel,’ and he has more than fulfilled that mission,” said […]
Friday, June 20, 2014 | news
** Watch testimony replay here ** Click here for a link to Ifill’s prepared testimony. (New York, NY)–On the one-year anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, the leader of the civil rights organization that litigated the case before the Court describes to Congress how the Shelby […]
Thursday, July 24, 2014 | news
After Daniel Pantaleo — an NYPD officer sworn to serve and protect New Yorkers — was filmed using a chokehold on Staten Island resident Eric Garner, who later died, new video surfaces of a separate violent arrest in Harlem. On MSNBC’s “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell Sherrilyn Ifill discusses NYC’s long history of police brutality and […]
