Thursday, August 13, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) released Community Oversight of Police Union Contracts, a comprehensive toolkit to support police accountability advocates and activists in engaging in police union contract discussions. The toolkit can be downloaded here. Police union contracts frequently contain provisions that shield officers from discipline and create barriers to […]
Monday, September 13, 2010 | news
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), announced the official launch of its redesigned website, www.www.naacpldf.org. LDF, which is celebrating its 70th year, launches the new site in an effort to educate the public and other stakeholders on its historic and continued fight for racial justice. “Given […]
Thursday, October 5, 2017 | news
Read a PDF of our statement here. LDF Launches National “Reclaim Your Vote” Campaign to Combat Voter Suppression The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is launching Reclaim Your Vote, a national voter education and registration campaign in direct response to voter suppression tactics designed to disenfranchise voters of color. “Never has there […]
Monday, January 18, 2021 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) launched the groundbreaking Marshall-Motley Scholars Program (MMSP), an innovative educational and training opportunity that will produce the next generation of civil rights attorneys to serve Black communities in the South. As LDF celebrates its 80th anniversary year, the new scholarship and pipeline program builds upon […]
Friday, November 5, 2010 | news
(New York) – With the mid-term elections behind us, the nation’s attention is now turned to redistricting which will commence in many places around the country following the release of 2010 Census data. Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) announced the launch of an important public education program — Redrawing the […]
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | news
Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the distribution of $2 billion in financial assistance to over 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who previously experienced discrimination when applying to USDA farm loan programs. These payments, provided through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), come two years after the bill was passed […]
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | news
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge, the second Black woman to head the agency, has announced her retirement. During her three-year tenure Secretary Fudge proved to be a tireless guardian of fair housing practices and racial justice in housing. She marshalled the power of 8,000 employees and a $68 billion dollar budget to […]
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF) is deeply disappointed by the Department of Justice’s decision not to bring federal hate-crime charges against George Zimmerman for the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American youth. Mr. Martin was one of several unarmed African-American men whose deaths at the hands of law enforcement and […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011 | news
Race, Gender, Discipline and Justice: Students Locked Out of a Quality Education (Savannah, GA) – Today the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with the African American Male Achievement Group, Inc. (AMA) began a three-day multi-stakeholder convening to address issues surrounding race, gender and school discipline. The convening brings together policy, legal […]
Thursday, May 8, 2014 | news
(New York, NY) In a public service announcement invoking the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended “separate but equal” in classrooms, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund today called on all Americans to join together to end inequality. “Brown v. Board of Education was much […]
