Friday, March 1, 2019 | news
As Maryland General Assembly committees continue to consider Senate Bill 793 and House Bill 1094, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) submitted written testimony today opposing the bills, which would authorize Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to establish its own private police force based on a memorandum of understanding with the Baltimore Police […]
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has announced the opening of applications for the Marshall Motley-Scholars Program’s (MMSP) second cohort. Launched in January 2021, LDF’s groundbreaking commitment, the MMSP, will endow the South with the next generation of civil rights lawyers trained to provide legal advocacy of unparalleled excellence. The program is […]
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | news
In an op-ed for Central New Jersey’s largest publication, The Times of Trenton, LDF’s Director of Economic Justice ReNika Moore discusses the importance of the disparate impact provision of the Fair Housing Act, which the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing next term in Township of Mount Holly, NJ v. Mount Holly Gardens Citizens in Action
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 | case-update
Before the 15 judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, Janai Nelson, brilliantly laid out the argument that Texas’ voter ID law intentionally discriminates against minority voters. In two minutes she showed why: 1) SB 14’s proponents selected photo IDs that Blacks and Latinos were least likely to possess and purposefully rejected several […]
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 | news
Before the 15 judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, LDF’s Associate Director-Counsel, Janai Nelson, brilliantly laid out the argument that Texas’ voter ID law intentionally discriminates against minority voters. In two minutes she showed why: 1) SB 14’s proponents selected photo IDs that Blacks and Latinos were least likely to possess and […]
Thursday, September 30, 2010 | news
Listen to LDF’s Jin Hee Lee on WBAI’s “Wake Up Call” discussing September 28th’s City Council Hearing on unlawful tresspass enforcement policies in New York City Housing Authority developments. Listen here. (Segment begins at 26:45).
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 | news
Today, Facebook released a document it has billed as an ‘anti-conservative bias’ report or audit. This so-called ‘report’ is grossly lacking in rigor and documentation. Rather than serving as an independent analysis it is simply a regurgitation of complaints and perceptions from select conservative groups. Furthermore, we are particularly concerned by the apparent softening of […]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | news
Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement to mark ten years since the tragic racial hate crime mass murder of a Black pastor and parishioners by a white gunman at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina: “Ten years ago, we witnessed the depths of depravity and […]
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. A Day of Inspiring Testimony, and a Record of Hostility to Civil Rights Statement of NAACP Legal Defense Fund President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill on Jeff Sessions Hearings In response to the hearing on the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as United States Attorney General, Sherrilyn Ifill, […]
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is deeply disappointed that Judge Danny Chun did not sentence former New York City Police Officer Peter Liang to prison for the killing of Akai Gurley, an unarmed African American. Instead, Judge Chun reduced Mr. Liang’s charge and sentenced him to five years of probation and […]
