Monday, August 21, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Statement on New York Police Union’s ‘Blue Racism’ Video Late yesterday, the New York Sergeants Benevolent Association released a video suggesting that police officers are subject to ‘blue racism.’ Monique Dixon, Deputy Director of Policy and Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational […]
Thursday, April 19, 2018 | news
On Wednesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order giving consideration for a conditional pardon to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who are on parole. Leah Aden, Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), provided the following statement: “Governor Cuomo’s executive order giving consideration for a conditional pardon to restore voting rights […]
Friday, June 5, 2020 | news
Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement regarding the imposition of an 8 p.m. curfew in New York City and related police enforcement conduct: “As the weekend approaches, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to impose an early evening curfew in New York City continues […]
Sunday, June 3, 2018 | news
Related Case or Issue: New York City Specialized High School Complaint New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today plans to enact new measures to diversify the City’s most elite public high schools, known as Specialized High Schools, beginning in 2019. In 2012, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), LatinoJustice PRLDEF and The […]
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 […]
