Thursday, September 23, 2021 | page
National Urban League v. Trump (2020) Important Facts About LDF’s Case Challenging the Trump Truth Ban and efforts to protect truth On October 29, 2020, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal lawsuit challenging then President Trump’s “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” (EO 13950) that prohibited speech, activities, and […]
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | case-issue
Case: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion National Urban League v. Trump Challenging President Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders and Defending Against Intolerance and Erasure Filed: February 19, 2025 What’s at stake? National Urban League v. Trump is a federal lawsuit challenging two anti-equity executive orders and one anti-gender executive order from President Trump related to diversity, equity, inclusion, […]
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | case-issue
Monday, May 4, 2020 | news
Washington, D.C.— Forty pro-democracy and civil rights groups today joined in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, urging them to halt the process of federal judicial nominations and confirmations at this time. The groups are members of the Fair Courts Task Force of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human […]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | news
A national resolution protesting high-stakes standardized testing was released Tuesday by a coalition of national education, civil rights and parents groups, as well as educators who are trying to build a broad-based movement against the Obama administration’s test-centric school reform program. This is the latest in a series of recent initiatives taken around the country […]
Thursday, November 3, 2011 | news
Yesterday was the official dedication of the Martin Luther King Memorial here in Washington. Some of you may have snuck away from this conference to be there. I was there. It was inspiring because the moral commitment of the civil rights movement is now center stage in at least part of our national culture. But […]
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | news
Death by Zip Code Tim Samuels travels to Ashurst Bar, Alabama to see the effects of a hazardous waste dump on the low-income families living nearby. LDF, alongside Earthjustice, represents the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community Organization (ABSCO) in its Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 administrative complaint against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM). The Title VI […]
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | news
Lawsuit to Fight Ruthless Rollback of Equal Housing Protections Today, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, and BLDS, LLC filed a federal lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) recent reversal of long standing fair […]
Thursday, October 3, 2024 | nejad
National Equal Justice Awards Dinner Celebrating the 85th Anniversary of the Legal Defense Fund May 15, 2025 New York City, NY Rise All Join the Fight for Racial Justice The National Equal Justice Awards Dinner (NEJAD), LDF’s signature annual fundraising event, is a gathering of 700 leaders in law, business, and philanthropy to honor those […]
Friday, November 8, 2019 | ldf-events
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) held its 33rd Annual National Equal Justice Awards Dinner (NEJAD), Justice Above All, on Thursday, November 7th at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. In 2019, LDF honored three individuals who have had revolutionary impact on the civil rights landscape and who are driven by the […]
