Thursday, May 16, 2024 | news
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Legal Defense Fund announced a slate of events and offerings to mark the 70th anniversary of the consolidated legal case it led and won, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The landmark victory to end state-sanctioned segregation in America occurred only after a hard-fought, multi-year campaign conceived by Charles Hamilton Houston and executed […]
Monday, March 18, 2013 | news
Fifty years ago, on March 18, 1963, the United States Supreme Court decided the landmark case Gideon v. Wainwright, which vindicated the rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and required states to provide defense counsel to individuals accused of serious crimes and unable to afford a lawyer. As the Court observed in Gideon, “in our […]
Monday, January 7, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today submitted an open public records request with the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). The request asks for information regarding policies about and investigations into student athlete discrimination on account of race or hair and stems from an incident that occurred last month at […]
Thursday, July 25, 2019 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) is unequivocal in its belief that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment and its administration is rife with errors that violate the 8th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution. Though many states have reached the same conclusion, the US Department of Justice announced today that […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | news
Today (March 20, 2013) at 1:00pm EDT, please join Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, for a live chat with Ed Pilkington of The Guardian discussing the Texas death penalty case of Duane Buck, who was sentenced to death after his jury was told he would pose a future danger because he is […]
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 | news
Read the PDF of our statement here. Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) sent a letter to MaryEllen Elia, New York State Commissioner of Education, calling on her to remove Carl Paladino from his position on the Buffalo School Board in the wake of his racially-charged comments about President and Mrs. […]
Monday, March 4, 2013 | case-update
Advocates working to dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline are sending a strong message to federal policymakers about how to keep school safe without enhancing police presence This week LDF and the Dignity in Schools Campaign are leading a national coalition of students, parents, teachers, researchers and legal advocates & activists working to dismantle the School to Prison […]
Monday, March 4, 2013 | news
Advocates working to dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline are sending a strong message to federal policymakers about how to keep school safe without enhancing police presence This week the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational fund (LDF) and the Dignity in Schools Campaign are leading a national coalition of students, parents, teachers, researchers and legal […]
Friday, February 1, 2019 | ldf-at-work
Thursday, January 19, 2012 | news
Reacting to a Wednesday Supreme Court ruling that restored an Alabama death-row inmates right to appeal his sentence, LDF director John Payton told the Huffington Post that the decision “focuses attention on the larger issue that death should not be the consequence of someone having an inadequate lawyer.” The High Court ordered that Cory R. […]
