Monday, April 12, 2021 | news
In response to last night’s tragic killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill issued the following statement: “Last night, a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man outside Minneapolis after a traffic stop. In Virginia yesterday, the Governor […]
Thursday, April 14, 2022 | news
In response to the police killing of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational and Fund, Inc. (LDF) President and Director-Counsel Janai S. Nelson issued the following statement: “We extend our deepest condolences to the family of Patrick Lyoya, and we stand with them as they seek justice and accountability for the […]
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 | news
This morning, Facebook’s Oversight Board announced that it is upholding its previous suspension of former President Donald Trump’s account and directed Facebook to reexamine the indefinite suspension the company imposed on Mr. Trump on January 7. Facebook indefinitely suspended Mr. Trump’s account one day after an insurrection at our nation’s capital in an attempt to overturn the […]
Thursday, July 15, 2021 | news
Today, the Biden Administration announced the first disbursement of monthly expanded Child Tax Credit payments to middle- and low-income families with children. Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”), issued the following statement in response: “We applaud the Biden Administration for taking this important step towards tackling one […]
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 | news
Today marks the two-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, during which the Biden Administration released Executive Order 14074 on Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety. The order advances a number of law enforcement accountability measures, as well as broader actions intended to address deficiencies in our […]
Friday, July 1, 2022 | news
Yesterday, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will initiate an investigation of the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Special Victims Division to determine whether it engages in a pattern or practice of gender-biased policing, in violation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, […]
Thursday, April 21, 2022 | news
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded its investigation of the Mississippi State Penitentiary known as Parchman, finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that the state of Mississippi routinely violated the constitutional rights of incarcerated people through the conditions and practices in Parchman. DOJ found that corrections officials in Parchman failed to […]
Monday, September 26, 2022 | news
The United States Department of Justice last week named Elise Boddie, a constitutional law professor and legal scholar at the University of Michigan, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, the second highest leadership position within the Civil Rights Division. Ms. Boddie, who was an attorney at the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) from 1997-2005 and returned to […]
Thursday, November 5, 2020 | news
Today, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) issued the following statement in response to a U.S. District Judge’s ruling this week requiring the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice (Commission) to include a disclaimer at the beginning of its report indicating that […]
Monday, September 13, 2021 | news
Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) review of the use of monitors in settlement agreements and consent decrees involving state and local governments, which it began in April 2021. In response, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), issued the […]
