Friday, May 6, 2016 | news
With the United States Senate set to return from its recess on Monday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has released a comprehensive report examining the civil rights record of Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who President Obama has nominated […]
Friday, December 1, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Releases Report on the Effects of Implicit Bias in School Discipline for Students of Color The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a new report today titled, “Locked Out of the Classroom: How Implicit Bias Contributes to Disparities in School Discipline.” The report not only […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, New York) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) released Captive Constituents, a report on prison-based gerrymandering. As the report details, most states and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the prison communities where they are housed when drawing election district lines, even though they are not […]
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) joined calls for the appointment of a special prosecutor and new grand jury to examine the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Last month, a court ordered the release of the audio files of the proceedings in response to a grand juror request. LDF assembled a […]
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its highly anticipated Democracy Defended report, which documents and analyzes election-related activities undertaken by LDF during the 2020 election season, provides documentation of barriers faced by Black voters in target states for LDF’s Prepared to Vote (PTV) and Voting Rights Defender (VRD) projects, and […]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | news
(New York, New York) – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released Independent Redistricting Commissions: Reforming Redistricting Without Reversing Progress Toward Racial Equality. The report provides an overview of independent redistricting commissions and examines their potential impact on minority voting rights. The report notes that our nation’s unfortunate history of persistent […]
Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released its recommendations for reopening schools while prioritizing both public health as well as racial equity. The recommendations—including policies such as a universal mask mandate, a requirement that all adults working at schools are vaccinated, and continuous data-driven engagement between schools and their communities—are intended to ensure […]
Monday, August 31, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released a set of principles for states and localities to adopt to ensure racially equitable and inclusive school re-openings as the nation continues to struggle with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To date, cities and states have taken differing approaches to closures, testing, mask-wearing requirements, and […]
Friday, October 1, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has released its annual SCOTUS Preview, an analysis of some of the important civil rights cases before the United States Supreme Court during the upcoming Term, which begins October 4. Since 1940, LDF has served on the front lines of civil rights litigation efforts. Only the […]
Saturday, March 6, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI) released its executive summary of Democracy Defended, a forthcoming report that details critical findings from monitoring the 2020 election season in key states across the South. The executive summary of this Spring’s full report provides a preview of the Democracy Defended ’s five key findings: Intimidation against Black voters was […]
