Friday, April 15, 2016 | news
Report Documents Extensive Racial Discrimination in Policing Practices in the City Wednesday’s release of a report by the Police Accountability Task Force entitled, “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust Between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve,” details the extent of racially-biased policing of, and violence perpetrated against, communities of color by the Chicago […]
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) vehemently condemns the actions of the gunman who killed nine people and injured three others at the Emanuel A.M.E Church in Charleston, South Carolina yesterday evening. Emanuel A.M.E., which was founded nearly two centuries ago in 1816, is one of the oldest and most prominent African-American […]
Thursday, November 17, 2016 | news
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), issued the following statement regarding charges brought against the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July: “We are gratified that charges including second degree manslaughter have been brought against Saint Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez for the shooting […]
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, New York Police Department (NYPD) Sgt. Hugh Barry was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide for fatally shooting Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old woman who suffered from mental illness, in October 2016. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. […]
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | news
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it would rescind the “ability to repay” requirement in its October 2017 Payday Lending Rule. The original rule required payday and auto title lenders to determine that borrowers were able to repay these risky high-interest loans before the lenders could issue them. This ability to repay […]
Thursday, May 22, 2025 | news
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai Nelson issued the following statement in response to the deadly shooting late last night outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. “We are devastated and outraged by last night’s horrific shooting of two Jewish people outside the Capital Jewish Museum. Our hearts go out to the […]
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | news
California Governor Gavin Newsom is about to sign an executive order today imposing a moratorium on the death penalty in the state and closing the execution chamber at San Quentin State Prison. With this move, California joins Oregon, Colorado, and Pennsylvania as states that have used executive power to halt capital punishment. “Governor Newsom’s imposition […]
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | news
Today Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 2466 into law, which restores voting rights to over 50,000 Californians with non-violent felony convictions. NAACP Legal Defense Fund Associate Director-Counsel Janai Nelson offered the following statement: “Today Governor Jerry Brown once again showed how California can lead the way on voting rights. By signing AB2466, which restores voting […]
Monday, July 9, 2018 | news
President Donald Trump announced today that he has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the following statement: “This nomination is a turning point for our country. We have litigated racial discrimination issues […]
Thursday, October 22, 2015 | news
Washington, D.C. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”) commends the Senate Judiciary Committee’s favorable consideration of a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123.) “The Committee’s movement on this long-awaited bill constitutes welcome progress on criminal justice reform,” said Leslie Proll, LDF’s Director of […]
