Friday, October 10, 2025 | news
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the below statement in response to the indictment of New York Attorney General Leticia James. Reportedly, the indictment is part of the Trump administration’s attempts to prosecute the perceived political opponents of the president. Attorney General James won a civil fraud case against President […]
Monday, September 20, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) and Texas attorneys Maurie Levin and Don Bailey, filed a cert petition in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Andre Thomas, a Black man sentenced to death by an all-white jury featuring three members who openly expressed racial bias that was directly implicated by […]
Monday, April 5, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc (LDF), sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting the release of the DOJ’s reform assessment of the North Charleston Police Department. The DOJ’s commitment to the North Charleston community remains incomplete while incidents of police violence and other misconduct by NCPD officers continue. It has been […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD) Executive, to request that several key aspects of the police department’s practices be subject to an independent review following the police-involved shooting death of Korryn Gaines on August 1, 2016. Resource: Letter to Baltimore County Police […]
Sunday, October 6, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is requesting an independent investigation of the shooting death of Joshua Brown. Mr. Brown was a key witness in the trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas Police Department officer who walked into Botham Jean’s home and shot him to death. The murder of Botham Jean has […]
Thursday, December 6, 2018 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today sent a letter to Jay E. Town, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, requesting a federal investigation of the police shooting of E.J. Bradford, Jr. Bradford was shot and killed at a mall outside of Birmingham, Alabama on Thanksgiving […]
Friday, June 22, 2018 | news
In May, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security began prosecuting people crossing the border – even those seeking asylum from life-threatening circumstances at home, who have historically been admitted entry to the United States as their immigration status is considered – and separating children from their parents. This week, President Trump signed an executive order directing […]
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted a letter asking Congress to exercise the full extent of its oversight authority in the face of proposed actions by the Trump Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that could result in over 1 million children no longer receiving free or reduced school […]
Monday, August 29, 2016 | news
On August 19, 2016, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) received a letter from the Baltimore County Police Department (BCoPD). In that letter, the BCoPD responded to the LDF’s August 15 correspondence requesting documents and information concerning the August 1 police-involved shooting of Korryn Gaines and her young son Kodi. On August […]
Thursday, January 23, 2025 | issue-report
