Saturday, December 12, 2015 | news
Back to Baltimore: What is next Long-time resident Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the [NAACP Legal Defense Fund,] and author D. Watkins, who grew up in Baltimore, talk with Chris Hayes about how the city can move forward, even as the trials begin for the six police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie […]
Saturday, May 17, 2025 | news
Today, May 17, 2025, marks the 71st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional and marked a new standard for American education. The watershed victory occurred only after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign conceived by Charles Hamilton Houston and executed by LDF’s […]
Monday, July 26, 2021 | staff
Olamide Adetunji joined the LDF in July 2021 as an Attorney in LDF’s Voting Rights Defender and Prepared to Vote programs after completing a legal fellowship at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on the Fight for $15 Campaign. During her SEIU fellowship, Olamide supported the organizing and unionizing efforts of low wage fast food […]
Thursday, February 27, 2020 | news
Today, the Ohio Supreme Court announced its decision to reverse Glen E. Bates’ 2016 conviction and death sentence and grant him a new trial due to the ineffectiveness of Mr. Bates’ counsel at trial. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) filed an amicus brief in February 2018 arguing that the defense counsel […]
Thursday, November 15, 2012 | case-update
The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into the complaint that the NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed in September, along with co-counsel LatinoJustice-PRDEF and the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, challenging the admissions process at eight specialized high schools in New York City. In an editorial this week, The New […]
Friday, February 4, 2011 | news
President Obama has nominated three Washington lawyers to serve as judges for the District of Columbia Superior Court. If confirmed, Jennifer Di Toro, Donna Murphy and Yvonne Williams would fill the vacancies created by the retirements of judges Kaye Christian, Brook Hedge and Judith Retchin. Di Toro, Murphy and Williams come from three different areas […]
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 | news
NYU Law School, Sherrilyn Ifill’s alma mater, profiles her in their alumni magazine This year, Sherrilyn Ifill became the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). A professor at the University of Maryland School of Law for 20 years, Ifill ’87 also litigated and consulted on a wide range […]
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 | news
Robert L. Carter, a former federal judge in New York who, as a lawyer, was a leading strategist and a persuasive voice in the legal assault on racial segregation in 20th-century America, died on Tuesday morning in Manhattan. He was 94. The cause was complications of a stroke, said his son John W. Carter, a […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 | news
New York City has quietly reached settlements with several plaintiffs in a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that the city’s trespassing-enforcement policies in public housing complexes are discriminatory and unlawful, lawyers and others said this week. Eleanor Britt, 63, of the Taft Houses rejected a city offer to settle her claims as part of a class-action […]
Thursday, November 4, 2010 | news
New Orleans is finally rebounding from much of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. But five years later, a big problem remains: blighted neighborhoods. To attract a vibrant middle class, these neighborhoods need to be repaired and restored, or, at the very least, stabilized. Residents who have been unable to rebuild because storm relief grants […]
