Thursday, August 14, 2014 | news
Last night on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Sherrilyn Ifill lambasted Missouri officials for their silence, absence, and lack of political leadership in Ferguson. Forty minutes later, Gov. Jay Nixon announced he would not go to the state fair and instead travel to Ferguson today.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | news
After last night’s Ferguson City Council hearing, during which Ferguson’s mayor and city council members made all-too-familiar and unverified claims that implementation of its proposed police and court reform consent decree would be too costly, the city voted to reject the consent decree and attach new, unilateral conditions to an agreement it had already spent […]
Monday, March 12, 2018 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. African-American Civil Rights Leaders Strongly Urge Attorney General Sessions to Include Civil Rights in DOJ’s Priorities African-American civil rights leaders sent a joint letter strongly urging U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to alter the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) historic commitment to the civil rights laws that Congress tasked it […]
Wednesday, January 7, 2015 | news
Nearly 30,000 New York City middle school students will have the opportunity to see the Golden Globe-nominated film SELMA free of charge, starting this Thursday January 8th thru Monday, January 19th –Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This free admission program was the brainchild of 27 African-American business leaders who were inspired by the film’s message […]
Thursday, July 16, 2015 | news
Nearly two dozen prominent African-American business leaders announced the donation of $1,000,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to launch a campaign for policing reform. The business group, which designated several spokespersons but whose members choose to remain anonymous, expressed their growing and urgent concern over the rash of police-involved killings […]
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 | news
With episodes of police violence against unarmed African-American citizens occurring at a frequency that has raised the national consciousness to an unprecedented level, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) have jointly called for immediate reforms to end police misconduct. This collaboration between The ELC and LDF […]
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | news
A bill that would have forced the state to count prisoners in the cities or towns they lived in before they were incarcerated was not called for a vote by the Judiciary Committee, but some lawmakers, like Sen. Eric Coleman, believe there’s a chance it could be resurrected. Coleman, co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said […]
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | news
The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia is the second most important court in the country. It has special jurisdiction for reviewing the actions of federal agencies. Additionally, under the Voting Rights Act, one of its members is required to sit on three-judge panels that decide whether to preclear voting changes by jurisdictions […]
Friday, April 20, 2018 | news
A coalition of leaders in the reproductive rights and civil rights fields called today for the withdrawal of Wendy Vitter’s nomination for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The groups note that Vitter’s repeated demonstrations of poor judgment and questionable integrity, including her refusal to clearly answer a […]
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and AAUW attended the School Safety and Climate Summit hosted by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. During their roundtable discussion with Secretary DeVos, civil rights advocates expressed their frustration about the absence of […]
Thursday, July 21, 2016 | news
In a letter to Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, a citywide coalition of advocates urge city leaders to ensure that progress towards police accountability adopted during the 2016 Maryland General Assembly is upheld during the city’s ongoing contract negotiations with the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Union. Members of […]
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | news
Today, advocates and parents of Baltimore City Schools students sent a letter to Maryland officials urging them to take specific steps to support the students’ right to an education and fulfill the State’s responsibility under the Maryland Constitution and binding court orders. The letter details how the fiscal year 2022 budget and the legislative session […]
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 | news
Washington, D.C.— A coalition of 29 advocacy organizations today sent a joint letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, calling on them to halt the confirmation process for Donald Trump’s federal judicial nominees now that the president has been impeached and faces a trial in the Senate. Organizations signing the letter […]
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 | news
Admissions offers issued for New York City’s Specialized High Schools demonstrate that a trend of unfairness and acute racial disparities in admissions has persisted. Out of the 952 eighth grade students who received offers to matriculate into Stuyvesant High School this year, 7 are Black and 21 are Hispanic. Of the 968 eighth graders who […]
Thursday, December 4, 2014 | case-update
In The Root, LDF Assistant Counsel Leah Aden announces LDF’s return to court due to Fayette County’s continued defense of racially biased voting plans in federal court appeal: “Despite this progress, Fayette County continues to defend its racially discriminatory method of election, having appealed the federal court’s ruling and continuing to impose on Fayette taxpayers the costs (so far […]
