Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | news
Today, twelve civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the Texas State Board of Education urging the agencies to issue detailed guidance to school districts concerning the implementation of Texas’s Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act (the “Texas CROWN Act”). The Texas CROWN Act became […]
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 | news
Better known for crime fare like “I (Almost) Got Away With It” and “Deadly Women,” Investigation Discovery is using Black History Month to turn the spotlight on three unsolved, racially motivated killings of the 1960s. For Keith Beauchamp, the 39-year-old documentary filmmaker who is an executive producer of the series and its host, it is […]
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 | news
Ruth Marcus has misunderstood the position of the civil rights groups that are helping to shape education reform ["Picking the wrong fight with Obama," op-ed, July 30]. We face an unprecedented crisis in education that requires bold measures designed to achieve broad structural changes. Our framework document does not argue in favor of the status […]
Monday, May 9, 2022 | nejad
34th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner The National Equal Justice Awards Dinner, LDF’s signature event, is an opportunity to recognize and honor leaders in law, the arts, business, and philanthropy who have demonstrated a commitment to the promotion of racial justice and equality. The evening also serves as an opportunity to celebrate the tremendous civil […]
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | case-issue
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and law firm Milbank LLP filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a lower court ruling in Trump v. New York, in which the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York barred the Trump Administration’s attempt to exclude people without […]
Thursday, February 8, 2024 | case-issue
Trump v. Anderson Defending Full Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment On January 19, 2024, LDF, along with co-counsel Burt M. Rublin of Ballard Spahr LLP, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Trump v. Anderson urges the Court to fulfill its duty to fully enforce the Fourteenth Amendment regardless of […]
Friday, November 10, 2017 | ldf-perspectives
by Kyle Barry, LDF Policy Counsel All year, we’ve explained how President Trump is reshaping the federal courts to enable his own discriminatory policy agenda. Frustrated by repeated losses in court on issues ranging from immigration to abortion to voting rights, Trump has selected a bevy of judicial nominees precisely for their long and in some cases incendiary records opposing civil […]
Thursday, May 15, 2025 | page
Trump Takes Aim at Disparate Impact What Does This Mean, and Why Does It Matter? By Nigel Stinson Editorial Manager, Economic Justice and Narrative Strategy On Apr. 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting a longstanding civil rights enforcement tool known as disparate impact. This legal framework has long served to identify […]
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | news
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) today condemned an Executive Order issued last night by President Donald Trump that seeks to impose federal control over Washington D.C.’s local affairs. LDF Associate Director-Counsel Todd A. Cox issued the following statement. “This Executive Order does not advance public safety but instead encroaches on local governmental affairs and uses […]
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 | news
TRIBUTE: Opal E. Bond, LDF Office Administrator from 1981-2015 LDF mourns the passing of our dear friend and beloved former colleague, Mrs. Opal Bond. Mrs. Bond was a treasured member of LDF’s administrative team, serving for more than three decades in our Washington, D.C. office, from 1981 to 2015. She most recently served as our […]
