Tuesday, January 24, 2017 | news
LDF Senior Counsel Leah Aden was a guest on the Matt McGill Morning Show on WVON radio in Chicago. She spoke about threats to voting rights across the country, including Texas’s photo ID law which is the strictest in the country.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 | news
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s President and Director-Counsel, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts. The hearing, titled “War on Police: How the Federal Government Undermines State and Local Law Enforcement,” was convened by the Chair of the Subcommittee, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Ms. Ifill testified at […]
Friday, June 23, 2017 | news
In December, Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino — who has a long history of making racist comments — made a series of outrageous “wishes” for 2017, including for then-President Barack Obama to “[catch] mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a [cow],” and for Michelle Obama “to return to being a male […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill’s keynote speech seemed to make the most impact, as later speakers referred to it several times. Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, accentuated the positive. In 20 years’ residence on the west side, she said, community involvement and public life left her with “almost entirely positive” memories. […]
Monday, March 18, 2019 | news
Lisa Cylar Barrett and Monique Dixon Take on New Roles The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is pleased to announce upcoming changes to our Policy Department. “We are thrilled to share the news that Lisa Cylar Barrett will be taking on the position of LDF’s Director of Policy,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of […]
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 | news
Generally pursued through the guise of local control, secession efforts further cement school segregation along racial and socioeconomic lines and often exacerbate inequalities between low- and high-income schools, the report found. After decades of increased integration following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, research has pointed to growth in segregation in recent […]
Thursday, April 13, 2017 | news
“What Attorney General Sessions is attempting to do is to take us back to a time to when policing was a failure, when the practices failed,” Monique Dixon, a lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s policing reform campaign, said in an interview. That time was in the 1980s and 1990s, when […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 | news
While Monique Dixon, the deputy director of policy for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, is similarly concerned about the potential scaling back of federal investigations into police departments, she points out that the DOJ could have used the 1994 law more aggressively than it has even under President Obama. The division has only opened about […]
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | news
May 6, 2025 – Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is proud to announce its fifth cohort of the Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP). Launched in 2020, MMSP has worked to equip the South with the next generation of highly skilled civil rights lawyers dedicated to providing legal advocacy of unparalleled excellence in the pursuit of […]
Monday, October 8, 2018 | news
During his Senate confirmation hearings in 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts memorably compared himself to a baseball umpire. As a jurist, he said, his job is simply “to call balls and strikes,” not to determine the outcome of a case based on his personal preferences. In the more than decade since, the conservative justices on […]
