Thursday, May 25, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Earlier today, researchers at UCLA and Penn State released Southern Schools More Than Half a Century After the Civil Rights Revolution, a new report reviewing segregation trends in Southern public schools between 1970 and 2014. The report concludes that the significant gains in school integration made after the civil […]
Saturday, November 17, 2018 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement in response to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s selection of Joel Fitzgerald as Baltimore’s next police commissioner: “Mayor Pugh has now confirmed that Fort Worth police chief Joel Fitzgerald is her pick for Baltimore’s police commissioner. We […]
Friday, June 23, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our staement here. LDF Statement on Mistrial of Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer for Samuel DuBose’s Death Today, a jury failed to reach a verdict in the retrial of former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing for fatally shooting Samuel DuBose, an unarmed Black man, in the head during a […]
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 | news
Today, Judge Barry G. Williams declared a mistrial in the case against police officer William Porter for the in-custody death of Freddie Gray because the Baltimore jury that spent weeks hearing evidence of Officer Porter’s involvement in Gray’s death was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. The prosecutor must now decide whether to convene a […]
Monday, May 22, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Over the weekend, Mississippi state legislator Karl Oliver posted a message on Facebook suggesting that officials who attempt to take down Confederate monuments “should be lynched.” NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement in response: “Karl Oliver’s statement over the weekend is […]
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | news
On Tuesday, the city of Louisville, Kentucky, announced that it reached a $12 million settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Breonna Taylor. The city also announced a series of policy changes to its policing practices. Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) detective Myles Cosgrove and Sergeant Jonathan Mattingly, and former LMPD […]
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: Policing Reform Campaign Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced today that he is declining to file state charges against Baton Rouge Police Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake for the shooting death of Alton Sterling. Monique Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy and Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]
Friday, June 15, 2018 | news
Reflecting the reality that race still matters and racial discrimination persists, Harvard considers race as one factor in its holistic admissions process as it seeks to achieve a diverse class. A lawsuit alleging that this consideration of race unlawfully discriminates against Asian-American applicants could soon be resolved, as the parties filed motions to end the […]
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) lauded the announcement by Attorney General Loretta Lynch that she will personally request that state governors provide state-issued identification cards to persons returning to their states from federal prisons. Under the Attorney General’s plan, returnees will be able to exchange their federal Bureau of Prison […]
Thursday, June 29, 2017 | news
Today, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, vice chair of the President’s Commission on Election Integrity, sent letters to all 50 Secretaries of State requesting “publicly available voter-roll data,” including full names, last four digits of social security number, and felony convictions, among many other personal data. LDF President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the […]
