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NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Receives Response in Request for Investigation of Darren Wilson Grand Jury Proceedings by Administration Department of 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri

On January 5, 2015, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) submitted a letter to Judge Maura McShane, the Presiding Judge of the 21st Judicial Circuit in Missouri, requesting that the court conduct an appropriate and thorough investigation of the grand jury proceedings that resulted in the non-indictment of former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren […]

NAACP LDF: Sessions Hostile to Principles of Equality, Justice and Civil Rights

Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be the U.S. Attorney General, Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, issued the following statement: “The Senate Judiciary Committee has the important charge of determining whether Senator Jeff Sessions is truly qualified to serve as […]

NAACP LDF Urges Supreme Court to Strike DOMA

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a friend-of-the-court brieftoday to the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor asking the Court to hold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. LDF’s brief urges the Court to apply heightened scrutiny to the law because it intentionally relegates gays and lesbians to inferior social status. […]

NAACP LDF Urges Federal Appeals Court to Strike Section 3 of DOMA

(New York, NY) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a friend-of-the-court briefon Friday, September 7, 2012,  to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Windsor v. United Statesasking the court to hold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. LDF’s brief urges the court to apply heightened scrutiny to the […]

NAACP LDF Statement on Justice Department Scaling Back Key Policing Reform Initiative

Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP LDF Statement on Justice Department Scaling Back Key Policing Reform Initiative Today, Attorney General Sessions announced that he is scaling back the technical assistance and support the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Collaborative Reform Initiative provides to law enforcement agencies that request it. Most alarmingly, […]

NAACP LDF Statement Concerning Former Officer Michael Slager’s Guilty Plea

Read the PDF version of our statement here. Today, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager pled guilty to violating the civil rights of Walter Scott, an unarmed Black man, who Mr. Slager fatally shot during a routine traffic stop.  Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., issued the […]

NAACP LDF Seeks to Defend EEOC’s Guidance on Criminal Background Checks

Motion Filed Today on Behalf of Texas NAACP and Retired Grandmother  Denied Job as School Crossing Guard (LUBBOCK, TEXAS) The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF) and its co-counsel Edward B. Cloutman III of Cloutman and Cloutman, L.L.P. today filed a motion to join the U.S. Department of Justice in defending a recently filed […]

NAACP LDF report on North Charleston Police Dept

NAACP LDF IRS Form 990

NAACP LDF IRS Form 990