Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | case-update
As the organization that litigated Brown v. Board of Education over sixty years ago, LDF has led the charge in advancing equal educational opportunity in our nation’s public schools. As Chief Justice Warren noted in the Brown opinion, “education is the very foundation of good citizenship.” In a globally competitive economy, quality education is an imperative. However, many students of […]
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund sent a letter opposing Ben Carson’s nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Read the full letter here.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund sent a letter opposing Ben Carson’s nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown, the Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Read the full letter here.
Friday, February 16, 2018 | case-issue
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s national education law, and renews its longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. The ESEA was a landmark civil rights law that has helped to […]
Monday, April 13, 2015 | case-update
LDF urges Rhode Island to end prison based gerrymandering, the practice of counting incarcerated people as residents of the prison facilities where they are held rather than at their pre-arrest home communities for purposes of redistricting. Pending legislation to end prison-based gerrymandering in Rhode Island will help bring the state’s redistricting process into greater conformity with the fundamental principles of […]
Sunday, July 28, 2013 | case-update
Today LDF’s Education Group submitted a letter to the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) on racial disparities related to the identification, placement, and discipline of children of color with disabilities. Our letter responded to a request for recommendations for action the Department should take to remedy these disparities. LDF’s key recommendations […]
Monday, June 16, 2014 | news
(New York, NY)—Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF) along with The Legal Aid Society called on Quinnipiac University to retract a recent poll regarding policing in New York City public housing buildings due to an inherently flawed and misleading premise. In Poll Question No. 17, pollsters asked: “Do you think […]
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | news
Today, the leaders of the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Color of Change, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, NAACP, National Action Network (NAN), and the National Urban League sent a letter to President Biden urging him to clearly and […]
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | news
UPDATE: On Nov. 13, minutes before Mr. Wood was scheduled to be executed, Gov. Stitt accepted the Pardon and Parole Board’s recommendation and granted clemency to Mr. Wood. On Nov. 12, LDF sent a letter to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt strongly urging him to grant clemency to Tremane Wood, a Black man on death […]
Thursday, June 8, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our staement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Urges NY State Assembly Members to Oppose Bill Expanding Hate Crime Coverage to Law Enforcement The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to New York State Assembly Members urging them to oppose A. 2962-A, which would unnecessarily and unreasonably expand New York’s hate […]
