Friday, July 15, 2022 | news
Yesterday, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating consequences of incarceration on Black people throughout the southern United States. With the long-term goal of eliminating all forms of racial […]
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | news
Student Borrower Protection Center and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Call on Stride Funding to Address Evidence of Discrimination, Warn of Broader Fair Lending Risks for Providers of Income Share Agreements The Student Borrower Protection Center (SBPC) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent a demand letter to higher […]
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | news
New Report Highlights Stark Racial Disparities in Prisoner Exonerations Data Showing Innocent African Americans More Likely to be Wrongfully Convicted Today, the National Registry of Exonerations released Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, reporting on the sobering facts that African-American prisoners convicted of a murder are 50% more likely to be innocent than […]
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 | news
The explosion of the prison population in recent decades is enabling towns where the prisons are located to unjustly increase their political power by counting inmates as legal residents, according to "Captive Constituents," a new report by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 | news
What do Louisianans want to see prioritized in their new political maps? A poll commissioned by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Louisiana, Fair Districts Louisiana, and Louisiana Progress finds equitable racial representation and more competition are top priorities. BATON ROUGE, LA | January 18, 2022—According to a new poll (https://louisianaprogress.org/redistrictingpoll), a majority of […]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | news
Five years after Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans natives are still struggling to move back into their homes. But Damon Hewitt, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, says racial inequities have stifled the road back home. Listen here.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | news
ATLANTA — Voting rights organizations have filed motions for preliminary injunctive relief to lift barriers to voting for the 2024 elections in Georgia. The latest motion, filed last night, challenges provisions of S.B. 202 for intentionally discriminating against Black voters. S.B. 202 specifically restricts dropboxes, prohibits the distribution of food and water to voters waiting […]
Monday, August 15, 2022 | news
On Friday, August 12, 2022, to ensure the right to education is protected for all students, the Legal Defense Fund, ACLU of Maryland, and BakerHostetler filed a motion for summary judgment on behalf of children in Baltimore City Public Schools in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City seeking a summary judgment from the Court against […]
Monday, January 28, 2013 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill insists that this is the time to play offense, not defense. Ifill, the new president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said that organizations working to protect and expand the rights of African-Americans must forcefully push a proactive agenda instead of only react to legal decisions that affect minority Americans. “The […]
Monday, June 10, 2013 | news
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 sentenced to death in Harris County (Houston), Texas, after his trial prosecutor elicited testimony from a psychologist indicating that Mr. […]
