Thursday, January 10, 2019 | news
As part of the New York Voting Rights Consortium, a group of leading local and national voting-rights advocates, LDF wrote to leaders of the NY State Legislature today to strongly encourage the adoption of five voting-rights measures as legislative priorities for the 2019 session. Taking this action is necessary to prevent New York’s current system […]
Friday, September 10, 2021 | news
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has submitted a response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) proposal for “Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence.” In its letter to NIST, LDF highlights that the proposal should: include greater context on the historic and contemporary relationship between racial inequality and technological innovation; be […]
Friday, March 29, 2024 | news
Yesterday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its Memorandum on “Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence,” which sets requirements and offers guidance for federal agencies’ development, procurement, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In response, Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Manager of the Justice in Public Safety […]
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 | news
Yesterday, President Biden issued an executive order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order builds on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights that the Biden administration issued last year, and mandates steps that the federal government must take to regulate AI and address risks of algorithmic bias. In response to […]
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | news
This week, the U.S. House of Representative’s bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a report outlining policy proposals and recommendations for the regulation of AI. The report acknowledges that AI can lead to inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise flawed outputs and exacerbate existing biases in systems even when it is accurate, leading to discrimination […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 | news
This week, Sherrilyn Ifill and NAACP LDF’s Education Group recorded a high volume of media hits around the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Schuette vs. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. SCOTUS broke with longstanding precedent by refusing to ensure that the political process in Michigan is not used by the majority to suppress the minority’s right to equal participation. The […]
Saturday, January 25, 2020 | news
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Senior Counsel Raymond Audain sits with Fordham University law professor Gemma Solimene to discuss the termination of Haiti TPS and what it will mean for 58,000 residents.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | news
Christina Swarns, Director of LDF’s Criminal Justice Project, appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry show to discuss the problems with Stand Your Ground laws.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 | news
President and Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews after President Obama’s surprise speech about race in America after the verdict. She discusses the difference between the communication style of Rachel’s Jeantel’s testimony and whether the jurors found her testimony to be compelling and credible, and that relates to the fateful night and […]
Monday, October 8, 2012 | news
Sandra Bookman will take a look at a controversial complaint that was recently filed with the U.S. Department of Education, alleging that the sole use of test scores for entrance to specialized high schools in New York City disproportionately excludes African-American and Latino students. She’ll speak about the issue with Damon Hewitt, the director of […]
