Thursday, June 28, 2018 | news
Black girls in the Baltimore City Public School System(BCPSS) are nearly five times less likely to have access to “gifted and talented” classes, but four times more likely to get suspended than their white peers—according to a new report from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF). The report, Our Girls, Our Future: Investing […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | news
A new LDF report, Ferguson in Focus, looks at Ferguson through the lenses of educational inequality, political disenfranchisement, economic inequality, and the criminal justice system. Ferguson, Missouri has emerged as the site of the most disturbing display of racial tension, political powerlessness, and police violence in recent memory. The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an […]
Thursday, January 25, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. New Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Response to Removal of Temporary Protective Status for Haitian Immigrants The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s decision to rescind the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) designation for Haitian immigrants discriminates against immigrants of color, in violation of the Fifth Amendment, […]
Friday, February 15, 2013 | news
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a regulation Friday designed to make it easier to enforce a 45-year-old law to combat housing discrimination by lenders, insurers, landlords and municipalities. The so-called disparate-impact rule allows plaintiffs to use a statistical analysis to demonstrate that lenders or cities promoted policies that had a disproportionately […]
Saturday, February 9, 2013 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today applauds the issuance of final regulations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that endorse use of the “disparate impact” standard under the Fair Housing Act of 1968. “We are thrilled about HUD’s action today. Disparate impact is a powerful tool for challenging […]
Friday, February 8, 2013 | case-update
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today applauds the issuance of final regulations by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that endorse use of the “disparate impact” standard under the Fair Housing Act of 1968. “We are thrilled about HUD’s action today. Disparate impact is a powerful tool for challenging the structural […]
Thursday, May 30, 2019 | news
New Hampshire’s Senate voted today to repeal the death penalty, joining the House in overriding Governor Chris Sununu’s veto to become the 21st state in the country to end capital punishment. The bill will not be applied retroactively, leaving the fate of Michael Addison – a Black man and the only person on death row […]
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Immigration New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Donald J. Trump Protecting Birthright Citizenship Filed: Jan. 20, 2025 Case Details On Jan. 20, 2025, a group of immigrants’ rights advocates filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order (EO) that interprets of Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship to […]
Thursday, May 30, 2019 | news
Today, along with millions of others, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) learned damning information about the political and racially discriminatory motives behind the push to add a citizenship status question to the 2020 census. Materials uncovered from a deceased Republican strategist reveal exactly what LDF stated in its March 15, 2019 letter […]
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP (O&G), and Youth Represent (YR) filed a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Macy’s, Inc. (Macy’s), challenging its use of an unnecessarily punitive criminal history screening policy. According to the lawsuit, the policy disproportionately […]
